March 5, 2004

Man Loses Arm to 5 Train

Man survives subway fall

"A New Jersey man was struck and run over by an uptown subway in a Lower Manhattan station Thursday, losing his arm but emerging alive from under the 40-ton car, police said."

Amazing.

"Pierre, whom a neighbor said commuted daily to New York, likely escaped death by landing in a deep trough in the roadbed -- the space located between the two rails."

Word is the space had a clearance of about 1 foot. I imagine this is the sort of thing you don't really strategize about. Instincts just kick in and it either works or doesn't.

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posted by at March 5, 2004 7:36 PM