Re: [Melb] Man run over by train unhurt

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0102/01/A18258-2001Feb1.shtml
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> Man run over by train unhurt
> Source: AAP|Published: Thursday February 1, 6:16 AM
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> MELBOURNE, Feb 1 AAP
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> A 47-year-old man run over by a train had a miraculous escape in Melbourne
> today.
>
> The man was lying on the tracks near the Balaclava railway station in
> Melbourne's southeastern suburbs, about 12.30am when the outbound train
> entered the station.
>
> Police said the train driver saw the man on the track but was unable to
stop
> the train in time as the engine and carriages passed over him.
>
> The man was taken by ambulance to Alfred Hospital but was later released
> with no serious injuries.
>
> Police are unsure what the man was doing lying on the tracks.
>

Waiting for a train?
Ted

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> "Engine and carriages"?!? What is this, Thomas The Tank Engine?!
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> Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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