Mom has fingers trapped in MTR doors for 25 min after trying to get her child from platform

Screengrab via YouTube.
Screengrab via YouTube.

When that automated lady’s voice says “please stand back from the platform door” on the MTR, she means it, as one woman learned yesterday, after getting her fingers stuck for 25 minutes in a carriage doorway when it closed and left her child behind on the platform.

Her child in tow, the mother had rushed to board the train at Po Lam Station about 5pm on Tuesday, according a witness surnamed Wong, who spoke to Apple Daily.

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As the “doors closing” warning sounded, she slipped on board and reached back for her kid.

The doors then closed, trapping four of the woman’s fingers and splitting the pair, as the train moved toward Hang Hau.

According to Wong, within seconds of the train leaving the station, a passenger pulled the emergency call handle, prompting the driver to quickly brake after advising commuters to hold on.

A police officer, who was travelling in a rear carriage, ran to the front, where the woman’s digits were wedged.

Despite pleas to open the door, the driver said that it couldn’t be done, as the train was out of the station.

Strangely, Wong said the driver asked whether passengers wanted to continue to Hang Hau or head back to Po Lam.

Given the woman’s child, the quickly-reached consensus was to return to the latter, though, according to an MRT spokesman quoted by Apple Daily, it took 25 minutes for the control center to grant permission for the train to be backed up.

Fortunately the woman wasn’t injured and, with her child, took the same train to her destination.

Wong questioned the efficiency of the MTR’s  emergency response system and said she was surprised the driver had asked the passengers for a decision.



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