This is the big-hearted train driver who stopped the train and saved the life of a dog tied to the tracks

As “Blic” wrote, the incident happened on April 22 around 9:30 a.m. near Bela Palanka, and the locomotive driven by Radivojević was moving from the direction of Dimitrovgrad to Niš.

– It is a section of the railway that is being renovated. There are reduced speeds. It happened at the exit from the station itself, through which, according to regulations, the train moves at a reduced speed. The dog was lucky that we left the station at a lower speed than usual. The prescribed speed through the station is now 10 kilometers per hour, and already on the open track it is 30 kilometers per hour. The stopping distance for a composition of about 1,000 tons, for the speed at which we were moving, is about 100 meters – Radivojević begins the story for “Blic”.

He says that he was not alone in the locomotive, but that his fellow driver, Jovana Stojanović, was with him.

– She is Jovan’s colleague noticed at about 500 meters that something was standing in the track. It is the duty of the train driver to observe non-stop for safety reasons, because a person and a child, as well as an animal, can be injured on the railway. She warned me that something was on the line. I reduced my speed to as low as possible and as we approached I saw that two dogs were on the track! As I started to play, one ran away and the other one stayed – explains the big-hearted train driver for “Blic”.

According to him, the train stopped a meter away from the animal that they first thought was injured. When Misha played the whistle again, the dog got up and then they saw the horror – yes tied to the rail with a chain!

– He wanted to run away but he couldn’t. My colleague was about to get off when we noticed two men on the left. She started yelling if they knew who had tied up the dog. They were around 30, 40 years old. The elder pretended not to know anything. He said, “There’s nothing on the track.” When I started yelling that I was going to call the police, the younger person started to untie the dog from the tracks – says Misha for “Blic”.

The dog probably tightened the chain a little more out of fear, so the unknown man needed more time to untie it.

He ate food between the rails

– It caught my eye, if the dog didn’t know him, he might have attacked him, but he was completely calm, waiting for her to untie him. Next to the dog, food was left between the tracks, some skin that he had eaten. It was probably put there on purpose to distract him so he wouldn’t move off the track until the train hit him. I won’t lie, maybe those people who were standing there didn’t tie the dog to the rails, maybe it was a coincidence that they were there. But it is also a fact that the dog did not react while he was untying it. As soon as he drove him away, the dog ran away – remembers Misha. He had to continue moving immediately because due to regulations it is not allowed to stay on the track so he does not know where the dog went.

It looks like a missing Malinois dog

– I received a call from a girl whose boyfriend lost a raspberry dog ​​three or four months ago, and she sent me a picture. I saw the dog briefly, but it could be that malino because it has a similar collar, almost the same. It’s just that this dog is quite starved, it probably lived in some bad conditions after its disappearance – says Misha.

Adopted already one dog rescued by the railway

Misha is a big animal lover and has two dogs. One of them was adopted and was also found earlier by the railway.

– We were traveling from Niš to Dimitrovgrad, in the town of Dolac, someone threw out a dog near the station, the police station kept it, but she didn’t have the conditions to keep it. I was sorry so I took it. To this day I keep it together with my dog ​​that I already had. I love animals. I also take care of fish, I took care of a rabbit… You can imagine the trauma it would have been if I stepped on that dog. Not everyone reacts the same way, but for us train drivers, it’s a big stress – Misha confides.

Praise for Misha, condemnation for the person who tied up the dog

Train driver Miša Radivojević posted a photo on social media yesterday showing a dog tied to the tracks.

– Bela Palanka the dog tied to the rail, the train stopped in time the dog was freed – Misha wrote in a post on the Facebook page “Stop the massacre of animals in Nis”. He says he posted the photo to show what kind of people are willing to do this to an innocent animal. Social media users shared the photo with praise for the train driver, and condemnation for the person who tied up the dog.