A train on the Odakyu Tama line hit a bicycle on the tracks between Nagayama and Haruhino stations in Tama, Tokyo, on Tuesday morning. Nobody on the train was injured, police said.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 5:20 a.m. TBS reported that the train driver spotted the bike and applied the emergency brake but couldn't stop in time. There were approximately 80 passengers on the train. Service was suspended for about one hour, police said.
The spot where the bicycle lay on the tracks was directly beneath a bridge, police said.
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some14some
Tamatama (accidently) or planned sabotage?
noumen.arete
Kids
Mirai Hayashi
"left" on tracks?...hardly
CrazyJoe
Stupid pranksters, do they think this is funny?
Naoko Idesawa-Ito
"Hino" station on Odakyu line??
smithinjapan
I'd say it was no accident. Thankfully, there was no derailment and no one was hurt. If the bike was registered they shouldn't have too hard a time tracking down its owner (assuming they can still read the sticker, that is).
inakaRob
Derailment? From a bicycle. It would be like stepping on a cockroach and saying good thing he didnt trip.
FightingViking
@smithinjapan
I've had friends tell me their bikes have been "borrowed" - without permission - and then abandoned. If the bike wasn't reported missing, the owner may indeed be in trouble...
squeeks
@inakaRob
Whoever left that bike whether by prank or accident should pay some sort of punishment for reckless endangerment.
roughneck
This headline could as well be: Ploy to derail train using bicycle on track fails.
Patric Spohn
One hour of service interruption? In other countries, train stops, conductor gets off train, loads bicycle or what's left of it inside his cabin, and continues his journey. 5min tops :)
Disillusioned
One hour delay? Seriously? What were they doing?
Jack Stern
Knowing the way things work here, the driver would have to go through a lot of unnecessary things or his job could be in jeopardy. Japanese rules.
CrisGerSan
What idiot would do that and think it was funny? someone needs some correction. Sorry for the delay but the proceedures are in place for good reasons. That is why Japan is honoured the world over for its impeccable train service. the best anywhere.
Elbuda Mexicano
5 am?? Maybe, just maybe somebody got wasted, really, really DRUNK, took someone's bike and in their piss drunk mental state just left the bike on the tracks, accidentally or just being stupid as WE all tend to do when wasted out of our brains from one too many shots of tequila, or shochu, or whiskey or Japanese sake etc..not an impossible situation to imagine, is it??
Scnadal.Lova
i feel sorry for who ever bike that was.
Kobuta Chan
Why some peoples in here sorry for someone who intentionally left Bicycle on rail track for wanting something happen to train and passengers?
This is criminal offense and need to punish on person who left the Bicycle on track. It was not accidentally leave it on track and it was intentionally committing crime.
Fadamor
You're making a lot of assumptions regarding who it was that left the bike there and what their motivation was. The sympathy was directed at the bike's legal owner. There's nothing to say the owner of the bike left it there as opposed to, say, a thief. There's also nothing to say the person who DID leave the bike there was intending to hurt the passengers or the train itself. It could have been something as stupid as just wanting to see what a train could do to a bike.
A.) Making sure that a body wasn't included with the bike. B.) Making sure the bike debris didn't damage the rails or track safety circuits.
Skeeter27
All the criticism aside, it's good nobody was hurt.