Stockholm. Five people were killed in accidents involving electricity last year, according to preliminary statistics from the Electrical Safety Authority. Two of the deaths occurred when young people climbed up on a stationary train cars. Then they came into contact with or come too close to the contact line and got power by itself.
– You need not take a conduit for it to turn over and go straight through the body, says Lars Jansson, Inspector at the plant.
There were also three accidents in which those involved were seriously injured after climbing adjacent track areas for train operation. In June injured, for example, a girl the age of 15 after receiving 16,000 volts through the body at a rail bridge in Vanersborg.
– She survived, she fell into the water and cooled down, says Jansson.
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