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Teen Gets Run Over By A Train, Suffers Only A Few Cuts And Bruises

Published on: July 6, 2011 at 1:22 AM ET
James Johnson
Written By James Johnson
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After drinking to the point of blacking out a 17-year-old boy in Altoona, Iowa was run over by a train, only to receive minor injuries.

In what is most definitely a one-in-a-million outcome the boys hand, which was run over by the trains engine and first car received only cuts and bruises after being examined by a doctor at a local hospital.

The train was thankfully stopped after two Iowa Interstate Railroad engineers realized that the teen was blacked out on the tracks and pulled the trains emergency breaks.

After being taken to the hospital police on the scene said the railroad was pressing trespassing charges against the teen.

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