Swiss train grazes woman in wheelchair fallen on tracks
GENEVA, Switzerland — An elderly woman in a wheelchair was miraculously left largely unscathed despite a close call with an oncoming train after having fallen on the tracks, Swiss police said on Wednesday.
The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon at a train station in northeast Switzerland, police in the canton of Aargau said.
The woman, 70, was "very lucky in her misfortune," because she fell exactly between two rails, police said.
The result was that the passing train barely touched her as it passed over her.
She was taken to hospital, as was another person on the platform who was mildly injured by flying parts of the electric wheelchair.
The incident caused delays in traffic at the station in Kaiseraugst, near Basel for several hours.
Police have so far ruled out any third-party involvement in the incident.
