By The newspaper
26 Oct 2023, 02:01 AM EDT
A man was killed by a New York City Subway train at the 82nd Street-Jackson Heights station in Queens.
The passenger was struck by a 7 train heading toward Manhattan around 6:25 a.m. Tuesday, NYPD officials said.
Details of how he was hit by the train and the identity of the victim were not released. According to press reports, the man was walking on the rails of that station, which is located above street level. The operator saw him, but he couldn’t stop the train in time, he limited the station 1010Wins.
The fatal accident caused suspension and then delays in both directions for about three hours, he said. Patch.com.
It was the third death on the New York Subway in recent days. Last week, between Monday night and Tuesday morning, two people died on the subway at stations in Queens: an 18-year-old Hispanic teenager who apparently accidentally fell onto the tracks, and a 57-year-old man who suffered an alleged injury. overdose.
Days later a woman was seriously injured after being pushed into the side of a Subway car and falling onto the tracks at a station in Midtown East.
On Tuesday afternoon, firefighters (FDNY) had to evacuate a disabled and smoke-filled train after it collided with debris, also in Queens.