Several people have already suffered serious burns this year when they climbed onto a train or overhead line’s support column in a railway operating area, MÁV Zrt. (Hungarian State Railways) emphasized on Wednesday.
According to MÁV’s statement sent to MTI, on January 5, the man who was electrocuted between Budapest-Keleti railway station and Kőbánya upper station was seriously injured while climbing on the support pole of the overhead line next to the track.
On January 8, in the evening hours at the Eger-Rendező station, young people played in the railway works area, where civilians are strictly forbidden to enter. Two boys climbed on top of the empty tank car standing on the track, and one of them, a 15-year-old child, suffered an electric shock near the overhead line. The ambulance took him to the hospital with serious burns, his companion was slightly injured, they wrote.
In two similar accidents on the MÁV network last year, the serious, life-threatening injuries and the fatality were both under the age of 18, they added.
The MÁV asks parents and teachers to emphatically draw the attention of young people to the fact that staying in railway operating areas is dangerous and forbidden.
The railway is a dangerous area. Due to the immediate danger to life, it is forbidden to stay inside the railway’s operating area – emphasizes the MÁV, which warns: even approaching the overhead power line is life-threatening, and within a distance of two meters it can even cause a fatal electric shock. Touching the overhead line or other parts of the overhead line network (poles, switches) is life-threatening.
MTI
