Woman seeks remuneration for wetting herself on train

The tour took place in Oct 2014 between Koblenz and Trier and has been described by a lady in doubt as dual hours of torture.

She urgently indispensable a toilet though a usually one on a sight was out of order.

Unable to soothe herself, she had to humour in unpleasant overpower for dual hours until a sight arrived during Trier sight station, her counsel has said.

When a sight finally arrived, a lady rushed out to use a hire toilet, though unfortunately she didn’t make it in time.

Because of this many worried and annoying of experiences, a lady sued rail user DB for €400.

A justice in Trier sided with her in Jul and systematic to DB to compensate a lady €200.

The state-owned sight association had unsuccessful in a avocation twofold, a judges ruled. Firstly, it had not supposing a functioning toilet and secondly it had not given passengers a viable alternative.

But notwithstanding a diminutive volume of income being demanded, DB are refusing to pay, and on Friday a justice of interest will hear their case.

“In element there is a toilet on a trains, though we are of a opinion that passengers don’t have a authorised right to have one,” a rail operator’s counsel said.

According to consumer organisation Pro Bahn, DB doesn’t wish to cough adult a income “because they see it as environment a precedent.”

It is loyal that passengers don’t have a right to a toilet on informal trains, though there is a “right to have what we are accustomed to”, Pro Bahn’s Karl-Peter Naumann argued.

This isn’t a initial time that DB has left passengers unprotected after not holding caring of their loos, Naumann added.

A year or dual ago, when a toilet on a sight in a Rhine segment was broken, a sight association gave a male a bucket to do his business into, Naumann recalls.