“ A New York City subway rider died on Thursday after his pants became caught in the doors of a Q train late Wednesday night as he exited, causing him to be dragged along the platform and then onto the tracks, the police said.

The episode took place just before midnight at the Avenue M station in Midwood, Brooklyn “


[www.nytimes.com]

....I saw that.....after he fell on track, he was hit by another train [ at least that is what I read earlier ].....

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Horrific. A similar incident occurred around here when a man got his arm stuck in the doors and the doors did not automatically open to release, as they are supposed to do.

It's like those poor individuals who get caught in escalators or elevator doors. We use them everyday without a thought, but they can be deadly.

The other death in the news currently is the worker at a recycling plant who went missing. They have found traces of his DNA in the plastic shredder.

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The episode took place just before midnight at the Avenue M station in Midwood, Brooklyn

Avenue M for Murder

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3.6 million subway trips in a day according to the story. That's unbelievable. Statistically, nothing really happened.

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It's like those poor individuals who get caught in escalators or elevator doors. We use them everyday without a thought, but they can be deadly.

The other death in the news currently is the worker at a recycling plant who went missing. They have found traces of his DNA in the plastic shredder.

Which brings to mind the story of a worker whose clothing got caught in a metal lathe. There was a video that was somehow posted with it that somehow got used uncensored/blurred. The poor dude was standing there and then he was, just, gone, red mist everywhere. A worker cut the power and that’s when I closed the video.

If that video isn’t used in safety training, it should be. With so many of our inventions you only get one mistake.

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Still some confusion about what happened. The most recent is that his foot went into the gap between the train and the platform, and that he fell onto the track area after that train got beyond the platform. Then he was hit by a second train. The one witness on the platform was yelling at the train operator to stop, but of course was not heard. He called 911, but before any help arrived, the second train pulled in.

I always "mind the gap" on the rare occasions when I take the subway.

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Unnerving stuff.

How much distance is required for one of those trains to stop?

It seems unlikely to me that the operator of the second train could stop in time if he had seen the person on the tracks.

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How much distance is required for one of those trains to stop?

It seems unlikely to me that the operator of the second train could stop in time if he had seen the person on the tracks.

Well if they're coming in to the station presumably they are already slowing down and given an emergency situation might be able to stop sooner, but yeah who knows.

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How much distance is required for one of those trains to stop?

It seems unlikely to me that the operator of the second train could stop in time if he had seen the person on the tracks.

Well if they're coming in to the station presumably they are already slowing down and given an emergency situation might be able to stop sooner, but yeah who knows.

Not that this helps the situation at all, and I don't know the details, but there are side areas to duck in that seem to be made for exactly this purpose in many subway systems I've travelled. They are typically wide enough for a body or two to scurry into if you happen to fall. Also, avoid the third rail at all costs; I think I'd rather by hit by a train.