GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police were contacted by people at the old Prangins train station who observed a woman who appeared troubled, hanging around the station at 12:40 Wednesdday 15 June. But the emergency team was unable to save her from being hit by a train. The woman sat down on the edge of the quai and a passing train badly injured her lower limbs, leaving her in serious condition at the Chuv university hospitals in Lausanne.
Police say the woman, of African descent, has no known address.
Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A man in his 40s has died after he was hit by a train arriving at the Plantaz station in Nyon, when he jumped onto the tracks to push his young daughter out of harm’s way, 5 November afternoon. He had come to pick up his two young daughters from school, and noticed too late that one of them had climbed down onto the tracks as the Nyon-St.Cergue train was pulling into the station.
