In Germany, a 40-year-old Hungarian man clung between two carriages of a high-speed train traveling from Munich to Lübeck for over 30 kilometers. He had disembarked at the Ingolstadt platform in Bavaria to smoke and jumped onto a coupling between the carriages as the train departed, holding onto cables.
According to The Guardian, he did this because his luggage was still on the train. The police informed the Bild newspaper that the man was fortunate, as the train reached a top speed of 282 kilometers per hour shortly after departure.
Witnesses on the platform alerted authorities, but an emergency stop was not possible because the braking force could have thrown him off the train. After ten minutes, the train was brought to a controlled stop at the Kinding platform in Bavaria.
The man was unharmed but was arrested for not having a valid ticket and disrupting the railway schedule.
Source: NOS