Shocking moment woman is dragged from the tracks seconds before train arrives at station

Ella Wills24 November 2017

Hair-raising CCTV footage has emerged of a woman being rescued from the path of an oncoming train moments before it pulled into the station.

The woman was seen stumbling across the tracks at a station in Melbourne in the footage.

As she struggled to climb back onto the platform, a man came over to help her.

But an oncoming train quickly hurtled towards her, leading to three police officers rushing to the rescue.

Three officers dragged the woman from the tracks moments before a train arrived

The shocking clip has led to calls for screen doors, which separate the platform from the train, to be fitted at Australian stations.

Daniel Bowen, from Public Transport Users Association, told news.com.au: “A platform screen could act like a wall along the platform with doors, so it would greatly reduce incidents like this happening.”

He added that there had been many similar incidents, including involving children's prams rolling on to the track, across the country.

A Victoria police spokesperson said that the women would have been killed if not for the quick action of the officers, it was reported.

The driver of the train saw the woman and applied the emergency brakes, he told local TV station Channel 7.

However, the train would not have stopped in time due to its weight and size.

In August, a video emerged of the moment a mother lost grip of her pram, allowing it to tumble on to the tracks at a Sydney station.

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