NYC Subway Tunnel.
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A man died when he came into contact with the “third rail” while walking on the subway tracks, adding a new tragedy this year in New York public transportation.
For unknown reasons the 31-year-old man was walking on the tracks of the metro on line 6 of the Lexington Avenue and East 51st Street station in Midtown Manhattan around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, when touched the electrified rail.
A southbound train then stopped, but hit it. It was not clear why the unidentified victim was walking on the tracks, which are restricted access, he said. New York Post.
It was the second death so far this December in the New York Subway, after thursday a 15-year-old fell while “surfing” on a wagon on the Lower East Side from Manhattan.
And early on Friday A 21-year-old girl was burned on the face by a chemicalca when being attacked by a stranger in a station in Brooklyn (NYC).
In general, this year there has been a long list of dramatic situations in the New York subway, among robberies, attacks, accidents, natural deaths, suicides y fatal overdoseIn addition to the homicides.
Serious crimes, including homicides, rapes and robberies, have increased 40% this year on the Metro compared to 2021, according to the latest statistics from the NYPD.
Last April it became one of the most violent months in the history of the New York Subway since its founding in 1904, when 29 people were injured in a morning crime perpetrated by a lone attacker, who shot and activated at least two grenades on a moving train in Brooklyn.
Right away the mayor adams announced that the number of NYPD officers in the underground system would doublewhere already since February it had activated a reinforced security plan to deal with violence. But until now crime is on the rise.