A Dutch metro train was saved from disaster on November 2, 2020, when it smashed through a safety barrier but was prevented from plummeting into water by a sculpture of a whale tail. (Photo by ROBIN UTRECHT/ANP/AFP via Getty Images) SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands - This really was a fluke.
The driver of a metro train escaped injury when the front carriage rammed through the end of an elevated section of rails and was caught by a sculpture of a whale's tail near the Dutch port city of Rotterdam.The train was left perched upon one of two tail fins known as “flukes” several meters (yards) above the ground.It created such a stir locally that authorities urged sightseers to stay away, adding that coronavirus restrictions were in force.Even so, some.