An underground employee pointed out that the deceased man was drunk, but she also states the final result will only be known after an autopsy is performed. She also asserts that the man had violated official responsibilities: “After having finished work he should have handed in the cab keys.”

The accident which, fortunately, did not result in any injuries to other passengers is not an isolated instance.

A similar case happened in the Moscow underground in 2001. Back then, another driver fell out of the cab while the train was in operation. The train stopped thanks to a specially designed system, the so-called “dead man’s pedal” – which is an emergency brake application. This system saved the lives of several hundred people.

The yard-master tried to contact the man but the latter would not answer. The worried metro employees found the body some 50 meters away from the train. Much like the incident on July 8, the man, too, had fallen out and died from brain trauma. In order to remove the body from the scene the metro employees had to cut the power to the station. Service only recommenced some 30 minutes later.

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