(Washington Insider Magazine) A man urinating at a station reportedly lost his balance, fell off the platform and was fatally struck by a train early this morning in Lower Manhattan. It was the second fatality in less than a week on the NYC subway.
A man who urinated on the New York Metro tracks apparently lost his balance, fell from the platform and was fatally hit by a train this morning at the low Manhattan.
The unidentified victim was 31 years old and fell from the platform at the Broadway-Lafayette St. station in Soho around 1:30 a.m. This morning, said New York Police.
The driver of a Downtown train of the line to which he operated on line F could not stop on time and ran over the victim, who was declared dead in the place, Daily News reported.
New York Subway
It was the second fatality in less than a week on the dangerous New York subway. A 34-year-old man died of a blow to the head early Friday morning after he was pushed onto the New York City Subway tracks during an altercation with an ex-convict at a station on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
“Twenty-two people were pushed onto subway tracks in New York last year through mid-October, according to police statistics,” The New York Times quoted.
Over the weekend, Fox News meteorologist Adam Klotz, 37, was brutally beaten by a group of smoking teens while trying to stop them from harassing another man at a Chelsea, Manhattan subway station.
Since taking office a year ago, former NYPD Mayor Eric Adams has announced multiple times that he would double the number of NYPD officers in the subway system in a beefed-up security plan to deal with violence in the chaotic NYC subway. But so far crime has continued to rise.
Last week an 80-year-old Hispanic man was robbed and beaten at a Brooklyn Subway station and an off-duty NYPD officer was assaulted at knifepoint by a group on a NYPD train L when he was traveling through Brooklyn.
At the same time, MTA faces millions in losses due to the increasing number of users who access the Metro and buses without paying. In addition, it is estimated that some 3,400 homeless people are currently living in subway cars and stations.
This article is authored by El Diario.
