A woman who was run over by two Tube trains has accused TfL of blaming her for the accident that left her with life-changing injuries.

Sarah de Lagarde, 47, had her right arm and leg amputated after she fell onto the tracks at High Barnet station at the end of the Northern Line, and had two trains crush her before anyone took notice.

PR executive Sarah told MailOnline: ‘TfL is blaming me for being run over and crushed by not one, but two London Underground trains.

‘TfL’s initial reaction was to label me as a drunk woman wearing high heels, both claims were baseless and have since been withdrawn.

‘TfL has posters up across its network urging everyone to “be kind”, which couldn’t be further from how they have treated me.’

On the night of the accident, Sarah lost her footing as she exited the carriage and fell down the gap between the train and platform edge.

The mum-of-two called for help but nobody heard her, including the Tube driver, who saw her handbag as he walked back through the train to get to the cab to make the return journey southbound. The driver took Sarah’s bag to lost property before carrying on with his journey at 9.54pm, running over her arm.

Five minutes later another train drove into the platform, which ran over her right leg.

Sarah said: ‘I knew in that moment, there was a high chance I was going to die on those Northern Line tracks.

‘I started to think about my children, and I knew I owed it to them to come home. I thought to myself, there is no way I am dying here. I need to be with my daughters.’

Sarah is now suing TfL for £25 million, which I guess is the sort of sum that you’d be looking for if you lost an arm and a leg in a horrific tube accident.

However, TfL has denied liability, accusing Sarah of being ‘negligent’ in the way she alighted the train and ‘placed herself in a position of danger’.

TfL argue that Ms de Lagarde had insufficient regard for her own safety, should have been responsible for maintaining her own balance, and was not listening to the ‘mind the gap’ announcements. In fact they’ve listed six reasons why she should be considered at fault:

• Failed to manage her exit from the train so that she was on stable footing when she was on the platform.
• Failed to walk safely along the platform so that she stepped sideways and backwards on the platform after alighting the train and fell backwards into the gap.
• Failed reasonably to maintain her balance.
• Failed to have sufficient regard for her own safety and placed herself in a position of danger.
• Failed to heed warnings of the existence of the gap, including announcements given on the network of the existence of a gap between trains and platforms.
• Failed to guard against the obvious risk of danger of falling off the platform if positioned close to its edge.

Sarah added: ‘Miraculously, I survived, but it cost me dearly – the first train took my arm, and the second train took my leg.

‘That night I also lost my mobility, my independence, my dignity and, above all, my ability to hug my two young children with both arms.’

Damn, that is a heartbreaking way of putting it. She now uses two prosthetic limbs including a bionic arm, and is ‘absolutely terrified’ of using public transport, which is certainly understandable.

No doubt TfL will have CCTV footage of how exactly Sarah de Lagarde exited the train, and that could be crucial in determining their liability. Then again, if all our Tube station had platform doors with screens (like on the Elizabeth Line and some stations on the Jubilee), then this never would have happened. Surely a city like London, that has millions of people pushing through its Tube system every day, should have these safety systems in place everywhere? It’s surprising that a lot more people don’t end up on the tracks, all things considered.

In any case, it’s an absolute tragedy what Sarah has had to go through, but at least she’s lived to tell the tale. An eight-week trial has been set for 2027, with a further hearing is set to take place in September.

For the insane 3-on-1 fight that broke out on the Central Line, click HERE.