This is the miraculous moment a Peruvian man somehow avoids death after being struck by a train.
On Saturday March 8, an apparently drunken 28-year-old Juan Carlos Tello fell asleep on a trainline in the capital of Peru, Lima.
Footage captured from a CCTV camera shows the South American initially laying motionless on the tracks with a white van parked metres away.
Moments later, a cargo train crashes straight into the oblivious 28-year-old’s head, flinging him on his side and beneath the locomotive.
The man then rolls from beneath the train onto the nearby pavement, somehow conscious and alive.
As onlookers from nearby vehicles rush to the aid of Mr Tello, he rises to his feet before stumbling towards the road and sitting down on the curb.
Somehow, the Peruvian escaped the horror collision with just minor injuries to his left arm.
He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Footage captured from a CCTV camera shows the South American initially laying motionless on the tracks with a white van parked metres away
Moments later, a cargo train crashes straight into the oblivious 28-year-old’s head, flinging him on his side and beneath the locomotive
Momentarily, the man disappears beneath the train after the horror collision
Miraculously, the man was able to recover from the crash, even standing on his feet just moments after being hit
General Javier Avalos, a security official for the town of Ate in Lima, said: ‘The train knocked him over but through some miracle did not kill him.
‘He apparently was in a state of intoxication, fell asleep along the train tracks and did not feel the train coming.’
The cargo train which smashed into Tello had been on its regular run towards the Peruvian Andes, a mountain range which extends through seven South American countries.
Accidents involving trains are not hugely uncommon in Peru, however.
In August 2024 on the same trainline as the incident yesterday, a young man wearing headphones was reportedly struck and killed by a cargo train while trying to cross the tracks.
And earlier last year, in May, four people were killed and more than 30 others suffered injuries after a passenger bus and a cargo train collided in the central Peruvian district of La Oroya.
