TyneWear Metro starting rolling stock procurement

There was an incident on the Metro some years ago where an elderly passenger charged onto a train on an electric scooter, and burst through the opposite pair of doors.

Amazingly, the press coverage concentrated on the train, as if there was somehow a fault with the doors!

I imagine that the outcry would have been different had the perpetrator been a 'youth, 17'.

Staggering the doors might eliminate possible damage to the carriage due to such behaviour. Seated passengers' legs may not be so lucky.