Dog survives being run over by 4 trains

♦a black labrador miraculously survived when it was run over by four trains.

The dog, called Poppy, chased a deer on to a railway line while on a walk with its owner.

Poppy and the deer were both hit by a passenger train and deer was killed instantly, but the dog survived.

It managed to avoid death by lying still in the middle of the tracks as three other trains passed overhead, all missing her.

Poppy suffered broken ribs and Sarah Holmes of Garston Vets in Westbury, Wilts, said things “looked very dark for Poppy”, but she pulled through. “But we were amazed that the only broken bones were a couple of ribs,” she said.