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Meet the bionic woman who was run over by a Tube train. Twice

By Katie Gatens
The Times·
14 mins to read

“Please, somebody help me. My name is Sarah. I don’t want to die.” Those were the words Sarah de Lagarde screamed repeatedly as she lay on the tracks of the Northern Line at High Barnet Tube station in north London in September last year. She was rapidly losing blood. Her right arm and leg had been crushed by two trains after she’d slipped, lost her balance and fallen between the train and the platform. It was 15 minutes before anybody

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