A high-speed train "Sapsan", traveling from St. Petersburg to Moscow, hit a person on Thursday morning in the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region, a source in law enforcement agencies of the Moscow region said.

“According to preliminary data, the deceased turned out to be a local resident who, for an unknown reason, ended up on the railway tracks,” RIA Novosti quoted a source as saying . The incident happened at 10:01 Moscow time on the Senezh - Podsolnechnaya section.

“The woman, 70-year-old Lyubov K., registered in Moscow, arrived at her dacha on Senezh and, deciding to take a shortcut to the dacha, crossed the railway tracks in the wrong place , ” the source said. According to him, the speed of the train at the time of the emergency was about 200 km/h.

The train itself suffered damage to its nose as a result of the impact; the right part of the nose cone was torn off, and photographs of the train show damage and traces of blood.

According to data published on the Russian Railways website, at the end of May, five people died under the wheels of the Sapsan , but in general, with the advent of new trains, the number of accidents on the railway has not increased. On the Oktyabrskaya Railway in 2009, 435 people were injured, 288 of them died. In 2008, 494 were injured, of which 331 died.

At the same time, the press service of the North-Western Internal Affairs Directorate for Transport reports another attack on the Sapsan. In the Novgorod region, a teenager threw stones at a passing train on Tuesday. The incident happened near the Chudovo station. The train manager reported the discovery of numerous glass damages in the bistro bar car.

A young hooligan born in 1997 was detained. According to him, he decided to throw a stone at Sapsan out of curiosity, notes Interfax .

Let us remind you that high-speed trains became targets of vandalism almost from the first day of their operation. Trains were repeatedly stoned. On January 12, a 35-year-old resident of the Tver region broke the glass in one of the cars with a piece of ice. Later, two men fired at the Sapsan with a rifle as it approached St. Petersburg. Several more times the train was stoned by hooligans as it moved. In the media, one of the versions of the increasing attacks was the dissatisfaction of residents of villages located along the railway tracks with the consequences of the passage of the Sapsan at high speed.

Trains travel from Moscow to St. Petersburg in 3 hours 45 minutes. The Sapsan aircraft have been flying since December 18, 2009 and are capable of reaching speeds of 250 km/h.

"Sapsan" hit a man in the Moscow region