Another Track Death at 4:30 AM

Man Dies After Q Train Runs Him Over at 23rd Street Station, NYPD Says

By Aidan Gardiner April 24, 2017

MANHATTAN — A man was found dead in the 23rd Street subway station after a Q train ran him over early Sunday, NYPD officials said.

The train suddenly stopped when its emergency brakes were triggered and the motorman discovered the body when he went out to inspect the rails in the station near Broadway about 4:30 a.m., police said.

The man, who is believed to be in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Police said they don't suspect any criminality was involved.

The Daily News report, after assuring the public that the police "do not suspect criminality" includes this closing laugh line: "The investigation is ongoing."

Of course it is.

Who would imagine that a lone traveler using the subway late at night might possibly have been a crime victim?

Why would anyone suspect that the reason the New York City subway (which installed surveillance cameras where they can record fare beaters has virtually none on platforms and mezzanines where they could record attacks on passengers) is to enable the management of the NYPDs Transit Bureau can keep Transit bosses and Transit lawyers happy by assuring the public "there is no evidence of criminality?"   

Photo of Joseph Fox, commander of the NYPD's Transit Bureau

Two Track Walkers Struck by Trains at Five AM

Man Fatally Struck by LIRR Train Near Woodside Station, MTA Says

WOODSIDE — A man was struck and killed by a LIRR train in Queens early Sunday morning, according to the MTA.

The victim, whose identity was not immediately released, was hit shortly before 5 a.m. east of the Woodside station by a train on the Port Washington line heading into Penn Station, an MTA spokesman said.

He was declared dead at the scene. The MTA said it was not clear why the man was on the train tracks at the time.

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The Daily News included another Five AM "accident" in its report:

Meanwhile, a man survived after stumbling off the platform into the path of an oncoming train at a Manhattan subway station.

The straphanger, who police believe was intoxicated, was struck by a downtown Q train as it pulled into the 57th St.-Seventh Ave. station at 5 a.m., police said. The train struck the man’s leg, according to police.

He was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell and is expected to survive.
          
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Perhaps someday the MTA and the NYPD will investigate why so many "accidents" happen when the transit system (and the LIRR) have the lowest number of passengers and why those passengers seem to include a high number of people who "accidentally" end up on the tracks.

Sure, and someday they will even publish videos of the "accidents".