Subway Train Severs Sleeper’s Foot

Subway Train Severs Sleeper’s Foot

 

 

By David Greene

 

BRONX, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 4- A man sleeping under a subway platform and possibly drunk-- had a foot severed as one subway car passed over it as he stretched out at the Bronx station.

 

Fire officials were first on the scene of the 1:50 a.m. incident that took place Super Bowl Sunday, February 2 at the Pelham Parkway station of the northbound # 5-train at Esplanade Avenue.

 

One MTA official who spoke with the train’s female conductor, recalled, "She saw something in the roadbed, but she didn't know what it was."

 

The official who declined to give his name, grimly added, "She couldn't stop the train in time and one of the cars passed right over him."

 

It is believed that the Esplanade Avenue exit of the Pelham Parkway station has been without a token booth clerk at night since the MTA started trimming its budget sometime last summer.

 

The MTA official maintained that the man was passed out drunk underneath the subway platform, when his foot apparently extended over the track.

 

EMS officials reported that the still-unidentified victim was critical having suffered multiple traumas however; NYPD officials say the man is, "not likely" to die.

 

The police official reported, "There was a male on the tracks, not the victim of a crime. He was struck by the train, but not full on and received a leg injury. He was taken to an area hospital."

 

The 53-year old victim was rushed to Jacobi Hospital with a severed right foot. Despite repeated calls to officials at Jacobi, the hospital could not say if doctors were able to save the man's foot.