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A man clung to a German TGV for around thirty kilometers between two stations in Bavaria on Thursday January 16. Having escaped unscathed, the traveler did not want to lose his luggage.
On Thursday January 16, a man clung to a German TGV for around thirty kilometers between two stations in Bavaria, local police announced the next day. Of Hungarian nationality, the 40-year-old traveler had taken the train to Munich without a ticket.
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When the train stops at Ingolstadt station, he decides to go out to smoke a cigarette, before being surprised by the departure of the train. In an emergency, he jumped on the train and clung to cables between two wagons while the speed of the train reached up to 282 km/h, according to the press release from the Nuremberg federal police.
The train stopped “unexpectedly”
Warned by witnesses, the driver stopped “unexpectedly but in a controlled manner” at Kinding station. A police officer present on the train then brought the traveler on board and handed him over to the federal police at the Nuremberg station.
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According to his own statements, the man jumped on the machine so as not to abandon his luggage, which remained on the train. He is the target of an investigation for having defrauded public transport and by an infringement procedure for having disrupted the journey, initially lasting 7 hours.
The statement warns against “the potentially fatal absurdities of 'surfing' on trams or trains” and recommends that the public “immediately notify train staff” if necessary.
