A train ran over a bicycle on the tracks in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on Saturday night, police said Sunday.
There were about 300 passengers on the train but no one was injured, Fuji TV reported. However, the front of the train was damaged and services on the JR Utsunomiya and Takasaki lines were suspended for about three hours while repair work was carried out on the tracks.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 8 p.m. Saturday about 160 meters from JR Nishi-Kawaguchi Station. The driver of the train said he saw the bike on the tracks and applied the emergency brake but couldn’t stop in time.
Police said the bicycle was most likely dropped onto the tracks from an overpass and they are examining street surveillance camera to try and identify the culprit who faces a charge of forcible obstruction of business.
© Japan Today
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Michael Jackson
There are a lot of Nutters out there I was riding the Hachiko line when it hit a concrete block that someone had placed on the track
Disillusioned
We used to put pennies on the coal train tracks when we were kids to see them turned into wafers. It's a bit different to putting a bicycle on the tracks though. It's pretty unlikely a bicycle would derail a train, but it did damage the train and caused a three hour delay for possibly thousands of people. My guess would be it was done by young punks. They were probably watching when the train hit it. The street cameras should round them up pretty quickly I'd imagine.
sir_bentley28
Sounds like another made up law. But whoever did this should be caught because perhaps for their own selfish gratification, they'd put at risk the lives of 300 passengers.
thepersoniamnow
Sir Bentley
Its a real law. Perhaps you just aren’t from here.