Tourist, 19, posing for video hanging from train door hits head on metal post

This is the dramatic moment a passenger's head was struck by a post when she leaned outside a moving train to pose for a social media video.

Footage shows Fadi Rose, 19, swinging from the steps of the moving carriage - only for her head to slam into a post along the railway in Phatthalung province, Thailand, on August 5 afternoon.

Fadi, dressed in women's clothing and wearing a hijab, appeared to be dazed by the collision and eventually let go. CCTV shows how she fell unconscious and dropped onto the tracks as the train stopped at the station.

Ekkarat Sriarayanpong, chief of the Governor's Office of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), said the youngster from Malaysia, who wanted to make a video for her TikTok page, was taken to hospital to recover.

The railway chief said: 'The passenger suffered a minor finger injury and a headache. The officers then took her to Phatthalung Hospital. Aside from bruising and swelling, medical exams and x-ray scans found no serious internal injuries, and doctors allowed him to return home.

'Although the passenger was not badly injured, since the train had just left the station and was traveling at a low speed at the time of the accident, such actions re considered reckless and highly inappropriate, and could lead to serious accidents resulting in disability or death.'

Officials said the aging train, which has no safety barriers in the space between carriages, was travelling from Narathiwat to Nakhon Si Thammarat province.

The State Railway of Thailand urged passengers to stay inside the train while it is moving, and to keep their limbs inside until they arrive at the train stop.

Train staff were also ordered to increase the frequency of safety checks and enforce rules more strictly.

A spokesman said: 'The State Railway of Thailand remains committed to passenger safety as its highest priority.

'The SRT is dedicated to continuously improving service standards and ensuring the utmost safety so that the public can travel comfortably, swiftly, and securely.

'Do not stand or ride in the spaces between carriages or on the train steps. 2. Do not board or alight from the train while it is moving. Please wait until the train has come to a complete stop.

'Do not extend your arms, legs, or head outside the train. Do not climb on or sit on the edges of windows or doors.'

Thailand's ageing trains have become notorious for their poor safety standards.

Earlier this year, Canadian backpacker Ryan Joseph Ralph, 24, was killed when he fell from a moving train on the way to an island in the south of the country. He had been standing next to the open gap to have a cigarette.

Going back further, 10 years ago in 2014, Matt Lawlor, 19, died during his gap year trip in Thailand when he fell from a train on the same route from Bangkok to the south of the country to visit the island Koh Phangnan. He was reportedly leaning from the open door to have a cigarette at the time.

In February 2017, British backpacker Daniel Clarke, 20, was left in intensive care after falling from a moving train on the same journey as the vehicle passed through Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand.

While in January last year, Irish national Patrick Ward, 45, tragically died after falling from a moving train in Kanchanaburi. He was reportedly trying to take a selfie at the time.

Koh Tao was dubbed Death Island following the murders of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller in 2014. Dozens of other cases of tourist deaths have since emerged.

Authors, documentary makers and researchers have blamed corrupt Thai police and a powerful clique of local families that control the island for covering up the murders in order to protect the lucrative tourism industry.