Update 13 July  Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 17-year-old Swiss youth from Nyon is in critical condition following an accident at the Nyon train station shortly after midnight, early Thursday 9 July. [Ed. note, 13 July: GL has just learned that he was a 2009 graduate of La Chataigneraie, part of the International School of Geneva] He was sending friends off on the train after an evening out in Nyon when he pulled himself up to the window of one of the rail cars and held on, briefly, then slipped and fell under the train as it began to move. Both legs were severed by the train’s bogies, the right one below the hip and the left at the tibia, below the knee.

He was treated immediately by an emergency team that involved the Rega helicopter service, police and fire departments as well as ambulance and other emergency service, then rushed to the CHUV in Lausanne by ambulance with a police escort due to the gravity of his injuries.

The rail line, part of the main Geneva-Lausanne system, was out of operation for over an hour.

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