Munich (dpa / lby) – After a twelve-year-old was seriously injured in an S-Bahn accident in Munich, the federal police are looking for his “lifesaver”. The evaluation of the video recordings showed that the child initially fell onto the track and was pulled up again by a man, the federal police said on Friday. “The man held the boy with enormous effort so that he was not pulled back under the S-Bahn.” The federal police asked the man to come forward so that he could “thank and appreciate his courageous behavior”.
Initially, the investigators assumed that the child was playing on the cell phone right on the edge of the platform on Wednesday afternoon, hadn’t noticed the approaching S-Bahn and got one leg between the train and the edge of the platform despite the emergency braking.
However, the video recordings show that the child first fell onto the track bed when crossing the safety line. A man pulled the twelve-year-old back up and held him when his leg was pinched between the S-Bahn and the platform. When other people cared for the injured boy, the “lifesaver” left the scene of the accident.
The child was taken to a children’s hospital with a traumatic brain injury. “He got off very lightly,” said a spokeswoman for the federal police. “The man acted with real presence of mind and prevented worse things from happening.”
