Moment three kids dodge death after ‘trying to RACE a train’ while playing on Toronto bridge
Heart-stopping moment three kids dodge death by inches after ‘trying to RACE a train’ while playing on Toronto bridge
Heart-pounding surveillance video shows the moment a speeding train narrowly missed a child playing on railway tracks in TorontoThe kids can be seen in the clip – filmed from the front of the approaching train – running along tracks on the Humber River Rail Bridge on May 20, at 5:02 pmThe train, owned by Metrolinx, can be seen barreling toward the seemingly unaware kids, as two of them race along the tracks with their backs turned
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Heart-pounding surveillance video shows the moment a speeding train narrowly missed children playing on railway tracks in Toronto.
One of the kids can be seen in the footage – filmed from the front of the rapidly approaching train – running along tracks on the Humber River Rail Bridge with two friends, on May 20 at 5:02 pm.
The train, owned by Canadian transport firm Metrolinx, can be seen barreling toward two of the seemingly unaware kids, as they race along the tracks with their backs turned. The third child is seen standing off on an adjacent track, away from the train.
One of the sprinting kids, who is seen in a bright blue shirt and shorts in the footage, was filmed running between the bridge’s two tracks – the one carrying the train and an adjacent track – veering toward the unused track as the train’s horn sounds.
The other runner, however – who wore a white t-shirt and shorts and had been running alongside his friend – came within inches of being hit, narrowly avoiding death or serious injury after inexplicably crossing the active track.
The footage shows the youth throw himself against a railing as he just barely gets out of the way.
Heart-pounding surveillance video shows the moment a speeding train narrowly missed children playing on railway tracks in Toronto.
None were injured in the incident, which saw the conductor of the Milton GO Line train slam his emergency breaks. The youngsters involved have not been identified due to their being underage.
The upsetting clip was shared to the company’s Twitter account Monday.
‘This heart-stopping video shows the dangers of walking on railways,’ staffers for the company wrote, noting that one of the children had ‘come within a foot of serious injury or death while trespassing on’ the Toronto bridge.
Metrolinx said Monday that train’s conductor had first spotted one of the youths, the one seen standing off on the adjacent track in the clip, ‘clinging to the fence on the edge of the bridge and only narrowly missed him.’
The transport firm added that staffers then ‘saw two more young people up ahead running on the track as if they were trying to outrun the train.’
