In sub-zero temperatures, a 17-year-old stowaway from Saxony-Anhalt had to hold onto the outside of a freight train on its way to Lower Saxony for almost an hour.
According to the federal police in Hanover, the young person had boarded a freight train that was stopped near Magdeburg with several companions on Monday night.
Unlike the others, she missed the jump.
As a result, the seventeen-year-old had to hold on to a handhold in the icy wind at one hundred kilometers an hour and an air temperature of minus three and a half degrees Celsius during the night journey through Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony until the freight train stopped near Cremlingen shortly before Braunschweig due to a construction site. "Heavily hypothermic, completely dirty and with only one shoe left" the girl knocked on the engine driver's door, the officials reported.
Accordingly, the badly marked teenager was no longer able to get off the locomotive without outside help.
She was treated in a hospital while federal police informed her parents.
As a precaution, officials searched the train for other stowaways.
They also filed a criminal complaint and pointed out that the girl could also be subject to claims for damages due to the delays.