Milan, April 4 (IANS/AKI) A 26-year-old woman was on Monday admitted to a hospital in a critical condition after being hit by a tram as she spoke on her mobile phone.
The woman was taken by an ambulance to Milan's Niguarda hospital with head injuries after the tram hit her from behind outside the central station.
At the time of the accident, the woman was standing on a pedestrian island with her back to the oncoming tram and had moved too close to the tram lines while busy on the phone, according to eyewitnesses.
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