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‘Action Movie’ Rescue: 78-Year-Old Woman’s Car Towed Off Tracks Seconds Before Train Speeds Through in Germany

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BERLIN, Aug 3 — A 78-year-old woman’s car was towed off railway tracks just seconds before a train sped through a crossing in central Germany, German Press Agency (dpa) reported on Sunday, citing local police.The woman had become stuck on the tracks Saturday evening in the town of Rothenstein, in the state of Thuringia, as the crossing barriers began to lower and a train approached.According to police, a passing truck driver stopped to help. The…

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Police described the rescue as something out of an "action movie."

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In Rothenstein in the Saale-Holzland-Kreis, a man saved a woman in the last second on a railway crossing on Saturday night: he pulled her and her car off the tracks. Shortly afterwards a train passed the transition.

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A senior woman gets stuck on a railway crossing in Thuringia by car as a train approaches. She's lucky – a man helps her with an unusual rescue operation.

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Badische Neueste Nachrichten broke the news in on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
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