Dutch Metro train crash
 

A Dutch Metro train has crashed through the buffer stops at De Akkers station, Spijkenisse in the Netherlands, coming to rest precariously perched on a piece of sculpture in the shape of a whale's tail!
Fortunately, the driver was the only person on board and had to be rescued and thankfully only suffering from shock.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...train-22942921
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-25ft-air.html
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/1...ng-into-water/

There are some who are suggesting that this was staged as a publicity stunt, but it seems to have been widely reported as a genuine accident.

Tony

My colleagues tell me it ran through the stops. If so, it's bloody stupid place to put a set of buffer stops. :eek:

Report from BBC with some different photos:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54780430

And from Sky news:
https://news.sky.com/story/rotterdam...water-12121793

Report & video from itv news:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54780430

Tony

I imagine that the incident investigation report will appear here at some stage.
https://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/en/pag...FjZXRzIjp7fX0=
I am wondering if the thing had the wheel slide detector system.
Steve.

Lucky save, but yes, the design is wrong.