NAGOYA -- A police officer was seriously injured after being hit by a subway train while sleeping on the tracks here late Sunday night, police said.
The driver of a six-carriage train on the Meijo Line of the Nagoya Municipal Subway System spotted a man lying face-up on the tracks at Shiga-Hondori Station in Kita-ku, Nagoya, at about 11:25 p.m., and applied the emergency brakes, local police said.
The train stopped after hitting the man. He suffered a broken left leg and remains in serious condition, according to investigators.
The man has been identified as a 46-year-old inspector at Aichi Prefectural Police. The inspector, who previously belonged to the force's Security Bureau, is now on loan to the prefectural government's disaster countermeasures division.
(Mainichi)
September 18, 2007
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