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November 30th, 2011 
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Detective Sergeant Raelene Langdon jumped from the Edgewater train station platform to rescue the man who fell in front of a train. Photo: Aja Styles.
An off-duty policewoman put herself at risk as she climbed onto electrified train tracks to stop the blood flow from a 34-year-old father’s severed leg, after he fell under a train north of Perth last night.
Detective Sergeant Raelene Longden had been travelling home from the city at 6pm when her train suddenly stopped at Edgewater train station and everyone was forced to disembark.
Detective Longden asked the driver if there had been an incident up ahead.
“He said ‘no it’s happened here, I’ve hit a man, he’s fallen under the track and he’s under the train’,” she said.
“So I turned back from the driver, from the front of the train and walked back the length of the train to the second carriage. I heard a moaning, a very distressed sound from under the train.”
She said she locked eyes with the man after she put her head under the train to see.
“I could see his body was obviously traumatised, he was obviously quite distressed. There was a lot of blood,” she said.
She called out to the passengers if anyone was a doctor or nurse and for someone to dial Triple-0. She also then advised all other passengers to move away from the platform.
“Some women were crying, it was very distressing, some were people very upset,” she said.
She was helped by two men to get down under the train.
“He was right between the two tracks, he was still really distressed. He wasn’t crying but he was still conscious,” she said.
“There was a lot of blood coming out of his body and I basically went under the train between the tracks and just stayed holding his hand and realised that he was actually going to die from his injuries.
“The train driver, who was very calm and very in control, leant his down and said ‘this is a high voltage area you need to get out of here. This is a health and safety concern’.
“He threw me his orange vest and said ‘please come out and we’ll go round the other side’.”
She went around the train and called for help from a lady on the platform, who had stayed with her the whole time.
“I said to her ‘can you find someone with a belt? I need a belt. I need to do a tourniquet’,” Detective Longden said.
“So the next thing you know a belt appeared, it was a lady’s belt so it didn’t have a buckle on it so I wrapped it around the guy’s leg and tightened it as hard as I could to stop the blood flow and just stayed with him until the ambulance arrived.”
She said while they waited public transport officers continued to check on both of them.
“I had a conversation with the man and we talked about his family and we talked about his children and he asked me if his leg was broken and clearly it was but he was in a bad way and you know I was basically concerned for his safety,” she said.
She asked him what had happened.
“He said ‘I just fell’ and I asked him was he trying to harm himself and he said ‘I just fell’. I had no idea what his state of mind was, he was obviously very distressed and in a lot of pain.”
The man told her that he had a partner and two children, and asked her for pain relief.
“He didn’t realise that he had lost his leg and so he was asking me to take the pressure off his leg,” she said. “The leg was gone.”
She said that she was a reluctant hero.
“I just kind of felt that I had to do something. I just felt like I had to, I didn’t have a choice. I would have made sure I was doing something. I’ve been a police officer for 25 years and I would never have left him and in my opinion he was a dying man and I would never have left a dying man in that state without being comforted.”
Police spokeswoman Susan Usher said it appeared that the 34-year-old stumbled on the Edgewater platform station, and fell in front of the approaching train.
The man’s leg had been completely severed below the knee and it took a significant amount of time for emergency service workers to free the man before he was rushed to Joondalup Health Campus, Ms Usher said.
The man remains in a critical condition in Royal Perth Hospital.
Support is available for anyone who may be distressed by calling SANE Helpline 1800 18 7263; Lifeline 131 114; beyondblue 1300 22 46 36.
– with Lucy Rickard.
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