A Rome tube driver is under investigation after camera footage from Termini metro station showed him eating while driving the train that took off with a woman stuck in one of the wagon doors.

A shocking video first published over the weekend by the daily Corriere della Sera shows the driver eating several forkfuls from a container before glancing in his rear view mirror and then accelerating out of Termini station on the Metro B line with a woman caught in the door of the last wagon.

The woman, 43-year-old Belarusian Natalya Garkovich, appeared to be carrying a sack or handbag in her right hand when she tried to get on the train but changed her mind and took a step backward as doors were closing.