18-year-old “subway surfer” also died in hospital in Vienna

The desire to boast about being a subway surfer on the Internet has now cost two young people's lives and plunged two families into misfortune: After his 17-year-old friend, an 18-year-old has now also died in hospital in Vienna from injuries he sustained on the roof of a U4 train. One week after the horrific accident on the Tuesday before All Saints Day, doctors at Vienna General Hospital lost the battle for the life of the 18-year-old who was …

The young man had climbed onto a moving U4 set together with three others. Two crashed into a footbridge. Now the second also succumbed to his serious injuries.

A 17-year-old had already succumbed to his injuries. The incident occurred on October 29th

A group of young people made videos of the event, and a recording of the impact appeared on the Internet.

The second of the two young men from the Czech Republic who were injured while riding on the roof of a Vienna subway train on October 29 died in a Vienna hospital. The APA agency reported on the death of the 18-year-old. A year younger boy died last Saturday. The Austrian media wrote about him as a Czech, according to the Czech Foreign Ministry, he was a Ukrainian with a permanent residence in the Czech Republic. The older young man was a Czech …

The Vienna transport company appeals to people to refrain from similar events, such as riding on the subway roof.