Mother and child survive Baker Street Tube track fall

[Nergal]

 

A mother and child who accidentally fell on to a Tube track moments before a train arrived escaped unhurt by moving into a pit under the track.

Police said the woman was pushing a buggy along a platform at Baker Street station in London on Friday night as she checked the arrivals board.

Distracted, she veered too close to the edge and fell down.

The father jumped down to help and the three of them moved into a pit beneath the track as a train passed over them.

None of them was seriously hurt, but they were taken to hospital for checks, British Transport Police (BTP) said.

The incident happened on the Jubilee Line, on the southbound strip of platform nine, TfL said.

BTP said an investigation was "continuing" into the exact circumstances of what happened.

Peter Holland said he saw people screaming and running in tears following the incident.

"We got to the platforms at Baker Street just as this happened, the train whistling, people screaming and running in tears", he said.

"I can't tell you how relieved I am to hear this wasn't fatal. Thoughts out to the driver of the train. Unbelievable."

A woman who was at Baker Street described how the platform was quickly evacuated.

"I was on the platform