A MAN is in hospital after falling from a crowded platform and being hit by a train at Ealing Broadway Station.
Horrified passengers saw the 26-year dragged along the tracks at about 7pm on Sunday (12).
Martin Newman, 23, of Uxbridge, was waiting on the overground platform in Ealing Broadway Station when he witnessed the incident.
He said: "Someone gasped and I turned round to see him falling in front of the train and be pushed along. He looked like he had been crushed by it. It looked quite bad. I didn't see if he fell, jumped or was pushed. I'm relieved to hear he wasn't killed.
“The platform was really busy as a lot of people were waiting for the Reading train as the the train before only had two carriages and was full when it got to Ealing Broadway. People from the station came running down but I left, I had my girlfriend with me and I didn't want her to see it.
“The ambulance came really quickly, within a couple of minutes.”
The victim was hit by the 5.05 Oxford to Paddington Service.
Mike Roberts, of Greenway Gardens, Greenford, saw the aftermath at about 7.15pm.
He said: “The overground platforms were cordoned off and police were running around handing out blankets. When I got outside there were about 10 police cars parked all around and three ambulances.”
The London Ambulance Service say they sent an ambulance and two fast response cars, one with a paramedic and the other with an air ambulance doctor.
The victim was taken to St Georges Hospital, escorted by the air ambulance doctor, where he was treated for injuries to his hand and remains in a stable condition.
The police are not treating it as suspicious.
He is the eighth person to be injured or hurt by being hit by a train at overground stations in the borough in about a year.
It follows the death of a woman at Acton Main Line on November 26. She has been identified as Robina Shah, 46, of Acton.
