Conductor throws girl's wheelchair off train

14th August 2010

A disabled girl and her care assistant were left distraught after their wheelchair was thrown off a train by a callous ticket conductor who told them; “Such people shouldn’t be on trains.”

Wheelchair-bound Oliwia Duży was travelling from Szczecin to Katowice with her carer Bronislawa Koptyko when the shocking incident occurred.

Whilst the PKP Intercity train was waiting at a stop, the conductor grabbed the device, which had been left in the corridor, and threw it onto the platform below

“The first moment I realised was as I saw a bolt, or some other part fly past the window,” said Koptyko when asked about the ordeal. “He then told me that people like that shouldn’t be ...