Commuters in overpopulated Indian cities are used to getting squeezed inside jampacked buses and trains.

A man catching a bus in Tamil Nadu state figured in a bizarre mishap on 4 January as he got sandwiched before he could board it.

In a viral X video of the incident shared by Venkatesh Garre, an unidentified man is seen crossing the road in Pattukottai to enter the side door of a waiting bus when another bus suddenly appeared.

The oncoming bus, which veered from the opposite lane, avoided hitting the other bus just by a hairline, but trapping the man in the narrow space between the two transporters, Hindustan Times reports.

The erratic bus continued to move, sideswiping the sandwiched guy and causing him to fall. The bus then stopped and the fallen man avoided being rolled over. He stood up and passers-by helped him get to the roadside.

The guy miraculously survived without injury.

Meanwhile, a Hungarian man also miraculously survived another dangerous commute in Germany.

The 40-year-old was traveling from Munich to Lübeck on a high-speed train on 16 January, when he took a cigarette break on the platform during a stop at Ingolstadt station.

As the train doors closed and it began to move, he leaped into the space between two carriages and grabbed onto some cables, The Brussels Times (TBT) reports.

The train ran at a top speed of 282 kilometers per hour, stopping after 30 kilometers in Kinding, where the man, unharmed, was apprehended, TBT says.

Interrogated by police, the train hitchhiker explained that he had clung to the outside of the train because his luggage was still inside, according to TBT.

Police learned that he did not pay the fare when he boarded the train in Munich. The man was charged with fare evasion and disturbing public order.