In the wake of the death of a pregnant that fell in front of an Airport Rail Link train last month and an incident Wednesday where a student’s foot was stuck in the gap between the train and the platform, parents at one Bangkok school are imploring officials to install safety barriers to keep their children safe, reported Thai PBS.
Specifically, parents of the student’s at Bangkok Christian College are on a mission to get the BTS to install safety barriers at Surasak station, where the students foot was caught and where their children use the train every day before and after school.
In the case of the unnamed student, a responsive security guard pulled the alarm quickly enough to alert the driver not to move the train until the child could be freed with the help of several parents.
A BTS group director, Surapong Laoha-anya, blamed the scary incident on an overstuffed train and too many commuters pouring in and out of the train carriage.
He noted that they play an announcement warning riders to be careful of the gap. He also insisted that the gap is an international standard of approximately eight centimeters wide.
No word yet on whether the BTS will comply with the parental demands and install barriers at more stations, as they have at Asoke.
