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We learnt from Shanghai Daily today that a very unfortunate man in his early twenties trying to board a train at Shanghai Stadium metro station yesterday afternoon never made it to his destination. The unidentified man was trying to squeeze his way onto a crowded carriage (as many other Shanghai residents are wont to do), but didn't manage to get in. Subsequently:
When the doors of the train closed, he was unable to step back onto the platform as the glass safety doors had closed, trapping him between the safety doors and the train. When the train started to move the man was pulled under the car and killed, police said.
Trapped between the train and the safety doors? We never knew there was enough space there to actually trap a man! Also, if the engineers had the good sense to leave that much space between the train and the screen doors (they must have had their reasons, we wouldn't know any better), shouldn't they have been equipped with sensors? Also pretty shocking is the fact that the train driver was actually given the go-ahead with the man actually trapped there. We guess even though these doors were meant to help prevent suicides (according to the omniscient Answers.com at least), there is really no fool-proof way to prevent people from dying.
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I try to avoid taking Line 1 during rush hour. It really is hell on earth.
what I find appalling is why didn't anyone hit the emergency stop button? Someone must have seen him....that's got to be one of the worst ways to go. Trying to ride the subway and realizing you're gonna die in a few seconds.
bitch deserved to die
and Guest @2 ... nobody gives a shit about other people in this town.
Very sad. I've seen this almost happen on numerous occassions. It's not the technology, it's how you use it. In this case it's being used by moronic staff and moronic passengers with moronic values in a moronic rush hour.
One thing would prevent this, it's called respect. This accident comes from a series of lack of respect from one person/group onto another person/group.
Respect!
@ guest2, that's the first thing that came to my mind when i read this story
@ guest4, sadly that was the second thing that came to mind
@4 respect my ass
You haven't lived with this...
Monkey city.
Would that person have pushed the emergency button if they saw someone else about to die? No.
Backwards savages.
Huh, I've been on the subway thousands of times, I have no fucking idea where the emergency button is.
Right above the door.
The solution to that is fairly easy. Stop running the stairs down like a monkey ass, stop squeezing yourself through the closing doors, and wait for the next metro train coming 1.5 minutes later. Our lovely neighbors are such impatient fellows...
#10, its not only the ones trying to squeeze on when the doors are closing. Often people already on the train are buffeted around by people getting on/off and the general throng of people further inside the car. It comes back to respect.
patience is a virtue... that nobody has over here.
This could all be solved by having sensors or staff at each of the doors. It's not like China has a lack of labor force.
In Japan, where labor is much more expensive, they still have people to help with the closing of the doors on the trains, because life and quality of life actually matter there these days.
The problem could be solved very easy: There is a time gap between the train closing the doors and its departure of about 5 to 10 seconds. If the platform doors close in this period of time, there could never again happen such an accident - and nobody will fall or jump to the rails, what should be prevented by the doors.
It doesn't come down to respect. If the people on the train had a choice between allowing that man to die or not, do u honestly think they would have wanted him to die?
Probably because most of the people inside were in shock, didn't know where the safety button was, or they didnt notice.
the correct solution would be to stand back and wait for the next, but heck, who hasnt had their impacient moments?