Another old EMT post, from 2012. Hardly anyone has seen this one, and it is not as gory as some of the others. 🙂
One under
As anyone who commutes around the London Underground Railway network will tell you, delays caused by someone jumping under a train, are commonplace events. In London, this network is commonly called the Tube, not the Subway, which for the edification of American readers, is a passage underneath a busy road junction. I say jumping under a train, because people rarely fall under them, though they are sometimes pushed, or hit by trains as they attempt to cross tracks.
To simplify this for the various Emergency Services, this type of call is given out as a ‘One Under’. After all, for our purposes, it is irrelevant how they got there in the first place. During one particular rush-hour morning, we received such a call, to a busy Central London Tube Station. The prospect of attending these calls requires a lot of preparation prior to descending into the depths, where…
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beetleypete 
Need to like the posting this way. WP dont give me again no button. 😉 Best wishes, Michael
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Thanks, Michael Sorry to hear about the WP glitches.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yikes!!! Yikes for her, yikes for you – just YIKES!! What a mentally and physically challenging job and the rest of just go on through our day so unaware of what goes on in these accident scenes.
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Thanks, Starr. Unfortunately, such things were very common on the London Underground Railway. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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i salute you, Pete. reading your stories, i have the utmost respect for rescuers. thank you!
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That’s very kind, Wilma. But despite all these stories, we thought of if as ‘just a job’, most of the time. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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That would have been something if the snarky engineer who put his tongue on the track got electrocuted!
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He knew his stuff, Kim. Undoubtedly. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It never occurred to anyone to equip the trains with a cowcatcher?
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Some stations have ‘suicide pits’ where the person falls into a gap below the train. But most suicides drop under the front wheels, across the tracks.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Harrowing indeed
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I was more worried about being electrocuted, Sue.
I confess I was rather sharp-tongued with the lady at the time.
Best wishes, Pete.
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We all have our own ‘fight and flight’ neurological responses, Pete…..and particularly understandable in the kinds of situations you were in
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Not as gory? 🤣 horrible situation. Do you know if she survived?
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No, it was always ‘on to the next job’. To be honest, I was more worried that she would electrocute the pair of us. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I would pain crawling under a electrified train……hoping no one was asleep at the controls….chuq
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The engineering staff were very good, chuq. They had a special ‘heavy rescue team’, as such incidents were so common. But it was still an experience I would rather not have had.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I can understand your feeling….chuq
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