Authorities in Australia have released shocking images from security cameras showing children falling into the gap between the train and the dock, as a reminder to parents to be vigilant during busy school holidays.
A train stops at a Sydney station and a woman pushes a stroller toward its open doors, according to images taken by the station's closed-circuit cameras. As she prepares to lift the stroller so she can put it on the train, the child walking next to her falls into the gap between the woman and the train.
The woman then raises her hand to attract the attention of the station staff, while a passer-by pulls the child, who seems to have suffered nothing, back onto the dock.
"A simple thing like holding your child's hand when you walk around the stations and board a train can prevent a serious injury or worse," New South Wales Transport Minister Andrew Constance said in a statement.
The woman's face is covered in the images that were made public and a government spokesman said that it has not been possible to contact her so far to comment.
The video was widely circulated on social media and its post on Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd's garnered 1.600 comments and 1.100 shares.
In another video released by the government, a child slips into the gap between the train and the dock at the time of disembarkation, while in a third video a young man runs down the steps of the station causing him to stumble and fall some stairs before knocking on part of the handrail.
More than half of all accidents at Sydney Railroad's 178 stations occur at the three busiest stations in the city's business center, said network manager Howard Collins.
"The most important message I would like to share with parents is that I ask them not to run to the stations and the docks," he added.
In 2010, a 15-month-old boy escaped with a few scratches and bruises when a train approaching the station hit his stroller, which had slipped on the edge of the dock.