An eleven-year-old girl from Oberasbach near Nuremberg was on a regional train from Nuremberg to Ansbach. Upon hearing that it would not stop at Oberasbach, she promptly jumped out before other passengers could do anything. The train was doing 120km/h at the time, but the girl miraculously landed in some bushes and suffered only minor scratches.

Police, who had been alerted to comb the area, were informed by the girl's father what had happened. He initially thought she had been attacked.

Source: Münchner Merkur (German link)

Wow, lucky sod.

Ok that kid definitely saw too much action movies. No more tv for her that's for shure. Lucky lucky...

Darwin will hopefully sort her out before she can do anything to keep those genes in the pool...

What a stupid girl. What the hell was going through her head? On the one hand terribly funny, on the other, still funny. Glad she survived though. I guess her father won't let her take the train anymore.

howz possible to open the door mann???
i think she has an amazingly quick thot process goin on there...what a mess it could have been ...hope it doesn't send wrong signals...

Hmm...bushes eh? Wonder if there was someone behind 'em!

I thought people posting here are supposed to have exceptional English skills

Nah, it's Brits and Americans mostly.

Yeah, only furiners learn that grammar shit.

I am still amazed that she lived. That is 80mph she was doing when she hit the ground! This ain't Bugs Bunny on a Saturday morning and Wile E Coyote she is not.

who cares about the girl?

lets see what the respondents have to say?!!!

Easy..

No Death, No Darwin Award.. Case Closed... (Or Atleast the thread)

@Hydr...
i don know abt exceptional english speaking skills, but ye, moderate understanding capabilities...huhh

There is a question, connected with that story, that I can´t get out of my mind:
How afraid (of her parents reaction) does a girl have to be, to rather jump off a driving train, than to call her parents, tell them about her mistake and ask for help...

Or maybe she thought like a kid does and thought this way she would make it in time for her favourite tv show?

Oh come on. A girl jumps from a train doing 120kmh, gets minor scratches and people tell her she is stupid. Personally I think she's hardcore. How brave of her to launch herself off the train. Big kudos.

The group that think she is not awesome are a bunch of wussy, moddy coddled pussies. You are to blame for the pansification of todays society.

Exactly. Looks like it turned out ok. She managed to get off at her stop and just got a few scratches, which saved the hassle of having to go to the next station, wait for the next correct train and catch it back. Definitely hardcore.

I agree with Friesing but also at 11 she probably hasn't fully developed her speed/danger perception to high levels skills so she didn't really appreciate the risk she was taking. You can't be gung-ho if you don't really know what you are doing.

I can't tell you how many times I've been tempted to try this. Its quite emasculating that an 11 year old girl has more balls than I.

ResoNate, that's because that girl is actually Chuck Norris in disguise.

Afik, it is not possible to open the door when the train is moving using the push button.
However, one can open the door using the lever mechanism. But this would take some
minutes for a little girl... what were the passangers doing when she was prying it?.

Not that I'm an expert on this, but apparently it's not a question of strength to open those doors; it's all about the technique. So it wouldn't take minutes.
I read something about it and it said that the girl asked a lady on the train whether it would stop in Oberasbach. The woman said no, turned away again and shortly thereafter heard the door alarm go off. When she turned around and saw what was going on, it was already too late to stop the girl from jumping.
The conductor didn't notice anything and just kept going.

Doesn't anyone else think that an eleven-year-old should know better? It seems like quite a no-brainer that this kind of thing might hurt very, very badly.

I actually happen to know the girl whose jump you are discussing.
I haven't seen her after the accident as she was still in hospital. But two of her friends (who had been on the platform with her before she went on the train) told me about it all and those girls visited her in hospital before Christmas.
She wasn't gung-ho, of course, but she just panicked. As far as I know she had asked somebody if that train would stop at Oberasbach and she had got the information it would. But in fact it was a Regionalexpress instead of a Regionaltrain and the first stop was at Ansbach. So when she noticed it passed her hometown without stopping (she uses this railway line every day to go to school and she could see her hometown from the window) she panicked as she has never been to Ansbach before.
She had her mobile with her but for some reason it didn't work those days and she knew it.
I agree with Chipbag that certainly her speed/danger perception isn't developed to a high level so she wasn't aware of how high the risk was.
Fortunately there were so many bushes and she fell onto the bushes.
The police is now investigating why the door opened. I don't usually use the train so I just can tell you what I heard from the girls. There must be a mechanism (a kind of bottom or something) high above the door which you must use in an emergency in order to stop the train or open the door. There might be some pane of glass in front of it. But in any case she would have needed some chair or something else to reach it. She says the glass was already broken or the bottom was already pushed down or something like this. So when she pushed the bottom to open the door it opened.
She broke her hand and they were not quite sure about a fracture of her skull base and of course she had a shock.
I hope she'll be well again soon . She's a very nice little girl and I would never have thought it was her when I read the news in the newspaper.