July 21st 2024.
A fun family outing turned into a heart-wrenching tragedy when a pram carrying twin girls rolled onto train tracks at a Sydney station. In a brave attempt to save his daughters, their 40-year-old father lost his life. The accident occurred at Carlton railway station near Kogarah in the southern part of the city at around 12:25pm. Unfortunately, one of the two-year-old girls did not survive, while the other miraculously escaped unharmed despite being trapped under a train.
The mother, a 39-year-old woman, witnessed the horrifying accident and was left incredibly traumatized, according to NSW Police Superintendent Paul Dunstan. He stated that it appeared the parents briefly let go of the pram as they stepped out of the lift onto the platform, causing it to roll off the platform and into the path of an oncoming train. In a valiant and heroic act, the father jumped onto the tracks to try and save his children.
Police arrived at the scene and were able to rescue the surviving child, who was found between the tracks. Security footage captured the family moments before the accident, walking to the station in a relaxed manner. Witnesses described the heartbreaking scene, with bystander Lauren Langelaar recounting how the father had attempted to lift the pram onto the platform as the train approached. She tearfully shared that she could only hear one child crying, not two.
Another witness, Grant Azzopardi, heard a woman screaming for the train to stop as it passed by. The train was headed from Cronulla to the City and was not scheduled to stop at Carlton. As the tragic incident unfolds, police will be investigating the circumstances, including the speed of the train.
Superintendent Dunstan expressed that it was purely luck that the surviving child was unharmed, as she could have easily been injured or killed. He also shared that the family had recently moved to Australia and were members of the St George Indian community. The mother and surviving daughter were taken to St George Hospital for treatment.
NSW Premier Chris Minns, who lives nearby, also addressed the media to offer his condolences for the terrible tragedy. He thanked the emergency services for their professionalism and bravery during the traumatic incident. He hoped that the local Indian community and the family could find some comfort in knowing that the father died while trying to save his children.
Chief Executive of Sydney Trains, Matt Longland, also spoke to the media, expressing his condolences to the affected families. He acknowledged that such incidents are rare, but the outcomes are devastating. Train services were temporarily suspended but resumed between Wolli Creek and Hurstville on the T4 Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra Line. However, they were not stopping at Carlton for the rest of the evening. Passengers traveling to or from Carlton could catch a replacement bus service between Kogarah, Carlton, and Allawah.
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