Guildford parkour runner dies in Paris Metro 'accident'

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[Chris from Nailsea]

From the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

Guildford parkour runner dies in Paris Metro 'accident'

An "inspirational" British free runner has died after a "train accident" on the Paris Metro.

Nye Frankie Newman, from Guildford in Surrey, died on 1 January, his parkour group said.

The 17-year-old was a keen participant of the sport, in which people climb and jump over obstacles and buildings.

Luke Stones, a fellow member of the Brewman parkour group, rejected suggestions Mr Newman had been "train-surfing" at the time of his death.

The cause of Mr Newman's death is not yet known.

A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We are providing support to the family of a British national following their death in France."

[Chris from Nailsea]

An update, from the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

Parkour teen's ashes to be scattered around the world

The ashes of a free runner killed on the Paris Metro will be scattered around the world, his family says.

Nye Frankie Newman, 17, from Aldershot, was involved in a train accident on the Metro on New Year's Day.

His mother, Deborah Malone-Newman, said Nye's ashes were being given to family and members of his parkour group to take on their travels. The family hopes to have Nye's ashes scattered in 100 countries.

Ms Malone-Newman insists the accident on 1 January was not due to "train surfing". She said: "It was a trip that was not solely for parkour purposes. He was sightseeing with his girlfriend - they were on their way to the fireworks - he was trying to take a picture, popped his head out the train door and a heavy object hit his head."

Investigations are continuing into Nye's death with a pre-inquest review hearing expected to take place on 22 May.

[chrisr_75]

he was trying to take a picture, popped his head out the train door and a heavy object hit his head."

I didn't know they had manually opening doors/windows on the Paris metro? 

[Chris from Nailsea]

he was trying to take a picture, popped his head out the train door and a heavy object hit his head."

I didn't know they had manually opening doors/windows on the Paris metro? 

Purely in the interests of clarity, that was a quote from the mother of the deceased, rather than (apparently) from me. 

[stuving]

he was trying to take a picture, popped his head out the train door and a heavy object hit his head."

I didn't know they had manually opening doors/windows on the Paris metro? 

I think you're confusing a quote from someone who wasn't there and is not even an objective non-observer, as processed through a journalist or two, for a technically exact statement of fact.

The picture in this report from le Parisien shows one of the trains:
LP/Olivier Boitet

A slim teenager could probably get out of one of those windows, or at least get his head and more out of it. Which of those he was trying to do (or possibly something else) may be a difference without a distinction, since he didn't succeed in doing any of them.

That French report says he was found between two carriages of the train, which is suggestive, but that too is given as hearsay at that stage.

[chrisr_75]

he was trying to take a picture, popped his head out the train door and a heavy object hit his head."

I didn't know they had manually opening doors/windows on the Paris metro? 

Purely in the interests of clarity, that was a quote from the mother of the deceased, rather than (apparently) from me. 

Fixed it for you!

[chrisr_75]

he was trying to take a picture, popped his head out the train door and a heavy object hit his head."

I didn't know they had manually opening doors/windows on the Paris metro? 

I think you're confusing a quote from someone who wasn't there and is not even an objective non-observer, as processed through a journalist or two, for a technically exact statement of fact.

The picture in this report from le Parisien shows one of the trains:
LP/Olivier Boitet

A slim teenager could probably get out of one of those windows, or at least get his head and more out of it. Which of those he was trying to do (or possibly something else) may be a difference without a distinction, since he didn't succeed in doing any of them.

That French report says he was found between two carriages of the train, which is suggestive, but that too is given as hearsay at that stage.

Sorry, it perhaps didn't come across so well in text, but I was intending to be more suggestive as to what the young man was up to that lead to his demise rather than taking what his mother had said as absolute facts!

So are those actually drop down Windows on that metro? It's not that easy to see from the photos...I am actually quite surprised there are large enough openings to get body parts through.