Suicide jumper thwarted as train runs over him without touching
(Mainichi Shimbun, Aug. 29, 2004)WASHIMYA, Saitama -- A despondent man who threw himself onto train tracks in the hope that slamming into a train would end his life ended up unharmed when the train ran over the top of him and left him miraculously untouched, police said.
The 56-year-old Tokyo man sustained only minor facial abrasions caused when he jumped onto the tracks