Metro Train Flew Off Raised Railway but Was Saved by Whale Tail Sculpture in Netherlands

Metro Train Flew Off Raised Railway but Was Saved by Whale Tail Sculpture in Netherlands
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The Associated Press
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This really was a fluke.

The driver of a metro train escaped injury when the front carriage rammed through the end of an elevated section of rails and was caught by a sculpture of a whale’s tail near the Dutch port city of Rotterdam.