The local newspapers reported that police confirmed they were hit by a Switcher locomotive early Saturday morning in the Ukraine.
According to the reports, the victims’ names have not been released, however the ministry confirmed the male is 41, and the female victim was in her thirties.
The country’s interior minister is quoted as saying on his site that the couple ‘failed to overcome their natural passion when walking home … and wanted to experience an extreme sensation near the railroad tracks’.
The man reportedly told police in the town of Zaporozhye:
‘Returning from our friends', my girlfriend and I could not overcome our passionate nature and wanted to feel a sense of thrill near a railway track.’
Further reports state that the couple had been drinking, and police have opened a criminal probe over a potential safety violation.
This is not the first time this unusual situation has occurred.
In 2008 a couple were killed by a freight train in South Africa whilst they were having sex.
Despite the train driver repeatedly hooting, Superintendent Abie Khoabane told a South African newspaper ‘ they continued with their business’.