A 40-year-old Hungarian experienced a long episode of fear on Thursday. While traveling without a ticket from Munich, he went out at Ingolstadt station for a cigarette break, before being surprised by the departure of the train.
In a hurry, he jumped on the train and clung to cables between two wagons, enduring a top speed of 282 km/h, according to the press release from the Nuremberg federal police.
Alerted by witnesses around 3 p.m., the police warned the driver of the train, who stopped “unexpectedly but in a controlled manner” at Kinding station. A police officer on the train then brought the traveler on board and handed him over to the authorities at the Nuremberg station. This high-speed train (ICE) was traveling to Lübeck from Munich, a journey of approximately seven hours.
-According to his own statements, the man jumped on the machine so as not to abandon his luggage, which remained on the train. The traveler is the target of an investigation for having defrauded public transport, and by an infringement procedure for having disrupted the journey.
After this story which ends miraculously well, the authorities warn against “the potentially fatal absurdities of ‘surfing’ on trams or trains” and recommend that the public “immediately notify train staff” if necessary.
