Franklin Ave station accident this morning
I went to get on the subway this morning at about 10:15am (4/5 at Franklin Ave) and the station was swarming with police and emergency folks. There was yellow tape preventing anyone from going through the turnstiles or into the station on the south side of Eastern Parkway.
i asked the station agent what had happened, and he said there had been "a man on the tracks." I then saw some police officers carry up from the track a sheet with what looked like remains on it. They put it in the corner, away from where we could see it. (Thank goodness. You'd hope they'd use a body bag for this sort of thing.)
Anyway, does anyone know what happened? The Gothamist newsmap has a "Person under train" at Franklin & Fulton, but this was Franklin and Eastern Parkway.
i asked the station agent what had happened, and he said there had been "a man on the tracks." I then saw some police officers carry up from the track a sheet with what looked like remains on it. They put it in the corner, away from where we could see it. (Thank goodness. You'd hope they'd use a body bag for this sort of thing.)
Anyway, does anyone know what happened? The Gothamist newsmap has a "Person under train" at Franklin & Fulton, but this was Franklin and Eastern Parkway.
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I just know that it delayed subway traffic... They announced "a sick passenger at Franklin Ave has delayed traffic in both directions" which made me wonder how sick someone would have to be....
Bropook has answered my question.
may he rest in peace. -
Terrible. I've seen them use a body bag at the 36th St. D,M,N,R station. I don't know if it was any better seeing a body shaped bag being hauled up from the tracks.
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When I went downstairs this morning (8.30am- I get on by the Shuttle), there was a guy who was new to me. He was your typical crazy smelly talking to himself kinda guy. He got off at the very next stop (Eastern Parkway- unusual). I'm wondering if he walked back....
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Someone wrote on another blog that their sister had just witnessed a male's head severed by a train. Sad anyway you look at it accident or not.May they rest in peace.
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I arrived at around 10:00 and saw the white sheet over the remains this morning as well. I asked the convenience store guy in the station and he said that a man fell on the tracks and was killed. I haven't read anything about it yet either. Terrifying. May he rest in peace.
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this incident is mentioned in a small article in AM New York today.
...homeless man killed by train at Franklin Ave on morning of 2/4/09. -
Is that all it said??? Damn, I bet it was the guy I saw. :shock: That sucks.
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There's an AP article. This is from 1010 WIns:
NEW YORK (AP) -- A homeless man has been struck and killed by a New York City subway train.
A transit agency spokeswoman says the brakes on a northbound 4 train in Brooklyn went into emergency mode Wednesday morning after striking something on the tracks at the Franklin Avenue station, near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She says a member of the train's crew discovered the man's body.
A police spokeswoman says the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators say it's unclear whether the death was an accident or a suicide. They don't suspect criminality.
The man's identity isn't being released until his relatives are notified.
Service in the area was suspended for about an hour.'
Do you think it was that man who yells in French near the Eastern Parkway station? He's the only homeless man I've seen locally. -
Do you think it was that man who yells in French near the Eastern Parkway station? He's the only homeless man I've seen locally.
He used to be at the EP 2/3 station all the time, but i have not seen him in months. Did he migrate further down EP? And there is a female replacement at the EP station recently. -
ah, the thin shirtless swearing guy, who goes back and forth between french and english. He has schizophenia and is known to the MTA street outreach team. I haven't seen him since the summer.
The female replacement (who has an addiction as well as mental health issues) I've seen only at the top of the station stairs, never inside the station. ...that and the article mentioning the deceased is male rules her out.
WCW, you know the male I'm tlking about? -
Well, like I said- the guy I saw that morning was new to me (I've lived at this stop for 10 years). He was mad, grumbling, NOT happy. Him getting off at the very next stop I thought was unusual, but you know, he was crazy, so I though, ok, crazy guy gets off after one stop.
He was a short little white guy, used a long cane. Middle, to old age. -
nope, you are describing a different guy than the EP station guy. You'd probably recognize the guy I'm talking about if I described him in greater detail.
But unless we get a detail of the guy killed we'll nevver know whether it was either of them.
Parade or KWAC, can you help us out here? A simple race, wgt, hgt detail would likely rule out our two possibilities.... -
Why Not-
I know the guy you're talking about. I think he's still around, although now that I think about it, I haven't seen him recently....
I'm really thinking it was the guy I saw. He didn't look right. -
...in the cold winter i take the shuttle 1 stop when it's early in the morning because it is a) freezing out and b) i don't want to slip on ice walking to the 2/3/4/5 so i take the shuttle from park on my way to work.
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Instead of guessing who it is why not offer a pray for the guy. Stop trying to link youself to a tragedy. "I thik I know him" "Could it Be???"
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joseph11 wrote: Instead of guessing who it is why not offer a pray for the guy. Stop trying to link youself to a tragedy. "I thik I know him" "Could it Be???"
I DO feel bad for the guy. And if I want to "link myself to a tragedy" (whatever that means :roll: ) I'll do it. Mind your own damn business.
I'm just trying to figure out who it was. Wouldn't it be strange to you if you saw someone who just a little while later died?!?! Have YOU no emotion about something so horrible? It sucks, I'm curious, and I wanted to know. My two measly posts about it on this board does not mean I'm walking throughout my day wondering. I have way bigger fish to fry. I'm just sharing. -
joseph11 wrote: Instead of guessing who it is why not offer a pray for the guy. Stop trying to link youself to a tragedy. "I thik I know him" "Could it Be???"
Hey ... joseph11 ... cool it; you're acting kind of like a jerk.
On another topic: LincolnAnnex, I love your Lenin!
Finally, thoughts & prayers go out to the lost soul on the tracks. -
Subject: Action at Franklin Ave. Subway
I'm sure you've all noticed the service delays on the 4/5/2/3 near Franklin Ave. Station was closed when I left for work and tons of people were milling about. One lady said someone attempted suicide, someone else jumped in to save them and they both were struck and killed by the train. Could be hearsay... anyone know the truth? -
Subject: I was on the train that hit him
Some women that were on the downtown platform told me that the man was just standing on the platform and just jumped as the train was pulling in. I'm usually in the 2nd car and the train just stopped and we sat there for about 20mins with no announcements or communication. They shut the air off and everything. finally they opened a door in the third car still without any instruction to the passengers and when you stepped out you could smell burning. when i started to walk towards the steps i looked and you could see a man under the train on the third rail. I can vividly see his blue hawaiian shirt in my mind. Didnt stick around to see them pull the body up. I had enough images in my head already from seeing him on the tracks. -
I was there about 1 minute after it happened. Didn't hear anything about a second person, just that someone had commited suicide by jumping in front of the 4/5. When I left, the train was stuck and fire trucks had just started to arrive. Not a good scene. People who saw it were really (understandably) shaken.
It messed up transportation all over, so I imagine it will be on the news. -
yes, I spent 30 min on the 2/3 at Bergen St, before fleeing to the Q
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Oops- posted on a new thread. Wow dqtprncss, that sounds like it was awful....I'm sorry you had to see that. People who kill themselves should do it alone and far from others...
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MOD NOTE: Merged all the threads on this here.
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I was able to grab the 3 from Brooklyn Museum. When we got to Atlantic Ave, the 4 was running into Manhattan. Not sure of Flatbush bound service though. I feel pretty bad for the people who had to witness this in person.
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I was standing at the middle of the platform when it happened. I was listening to my ipod and suddenly I heard wailing, crying and screaming and I looked to the end of the platform and the train had stopped. I don't even think the first/second car was out of the tunnel. Everyone ran over to see what happened but I decided to stay away, cause it already made me nauseous and queezy. I feel so sorry for that person. I cried my eyeballs out this morning and still feel mad shook up. This is the second time in a couple of months that there has been someone struck by a train at Franklin.
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I was there this morning and just couldn't understand what was happening! It was about 8:30am--At first my boyfriend and I thought it was a little dog barking, but once the train halted and everyone looked..it was someone screaming for their life! MY god, poor soul.....I hope to never experience that again..I'm still shook. Now, this is what my family will never go through while driving to work on LI
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that is so sad. i can't imagine being witness to this either...
But, L Keys, your family drives -- 167 people die each DAY in car-related accidents.
As for the subway...
"While there is the occasional murder, it seems that most of the deaths that occur in the subway are due to sickness, accident, or suicide. The Metropolitan Transit Authority does not keep these statistics, and undoubtedly many cases go unreported, so the stats are extremely difficult to ascertain. But recently amNewYork reporter Chuck Bennett wrote that, in a review of news stories and police reports filed in 2006, he found that 23 people had died in the subway during the year. "Natural causes" or illness accounted for the largest number, five were accidents, and another five were suicides. "
7 times more people die each day driving cars than do in an entire year on the subway. -
Subject: My Morning...
I was walking to the 4 train around 8:30am this morning. I saw firetrucks pull up and people leaving the station as I went down. Some women were hovering around the entrance and when I asked them what was going on, they said, "someone just jumped in front of the train." I went down into the station, passed the crowds of people, among them, some women hysterically crying, some with dazed looks on their face like they saw a ghost. I went down to the platform, mainly hoping what the women told me wasn't true, but it was. I went to the platform and saw what is haunting my mind now. I will always remember his light blue and white plaid shirt. To think someone was that unhappy to do that saddens me. My thoughts go out to the family. I rode the train into work and I think I had the same dazed look on my face that I saw on other people when I was walking into the station. RIP. -
XlizellX thanks for the stats! I'm sure it's definitely a higher percentage being a driver, but I was just making a small point. It's like city commuter vs. suburbia driver--I don't know what is worse sometimes!! Just a real sad day for everyone who was at Franklin Ave. station this morning...hope to never see that again
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yeah, i was there too. Saw it all go down...most insane thing i've ever seen in the subway...
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