>  Was she careless?    
      
      
    I would think that any reasonable newspaper article   
    (initially reporting the accident) would comment    
     on other similar cases,  earlier close calls,   
    or    
      if other passengers thought that the particular    
     spot on the platform was unsafe or scary, etc.   
     (e.g.  the gap being too wide, etc.)   
      
      
   ______________   
      
   >  How old was (is) she?       
      
      
    I found the answer:   
      
      
   http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Suit-against-Austria-s-rai   
   road-gets-new-shot-4225181.php   
      
   ......   
      
   Sachs, who had bought a Eurail pass, was injured in April 2007 at a station in   
   Innsbruck. She said she slipped through a gap and fell to the tracks when the   
   doors of the train she was trying to board closed and the train started   
   moving. Both her legs had    
   to be amputated above the knee.   
      
   Her suit accused OBB of operating the train negligently, failing to provide a   
   safe place to board and failing to warn passengers. Those issues remain on   
   hold while the courts address the railroad's claim of legal immunity.   
      
   Sachs is now 48 and works for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said   
   her lawyer, Geoffrey Becker.   
      
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