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  • a well placed sculpture came to the rescue of a tram that ran past the end of its tracks in the Netherlands on Monday morning.

  • The tram would have fallen almost 40 ft to the ground below, but instead it luckily came to rest on an artwork of a whale tail.

  • No one was injured in the crash.

  • The driver emerged shocked but unharmed, and there were no passengers on the tram.

  • By coincidence, that statue is called saved by a whale's tail.

  • The suspended tram car could be seen in Rotterdam on Monday morning to passers by on the streets below.

  • Several social media sites of even called to leave the traumas a permanent addition to the artwork.

  • Local officials said it would not be safe to use the tram platform in its current state, and engineers were studying how the tram car and several derail behind it could be safely removed.

a well placed sculpture came to the rescue of a tram that ran past the end of its tracks in the Netherlands on Monday morning.

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