16 injured in Sydney train accident
Monday - January 22, 2018 3:56 pm ,
Category : WORLD
Sydney Jan 22 (IANS) At least 16 people were injured when a passenger train hit a rail buffer at a railway station in Sydney on Monday the police said.
The train was slowing to a stop when it crashed into a buffer at the end of the line at Richmond station in the morning the BBC reported.
A 21-year-old man suffered a broken leg and another 15 people were treated for minor injuries paramedics said.
Police said they were investigating why the train did not stop.
"These people are very lucky -- it was chaos -- things could have been much much worse " said one of the paramedics.
Sydney Trains Chief Executive Howard Collins told reporters the train had "hit the buffers pretty hard" but had not derailed.
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