One Dead After Two Women Drunkenly Fall Onto Subway Tracks In NYC

A tragedy in Brooklyn Sunday night.

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Early Sunday morning, two drunken women stumbled onto the subway tracks at the Broadway Junction A/C train platform in Brooklyn around 12:20 a.m., police told The NY Daily News. One woman, 23, was left dead.

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MTA spokesman Shams Tarek says the woman fell between two subway cars as the A-train pulled away from the station. While attempting to save her, her friend tumbled onto the tracks as well, suffering a broken arm. 

One Twitter user who witnessed the incident wrote, "Just watched an intoxicated young woman stumble at the edge of the platform at Broadway Junction. Her friend tried to catch her & they both fell on the tracks. As the A train ran over them, people banged on the moving train to get it to stop. 1 dead & 1 in critical condition." He later added, "I was shook up. You could hear them moaning under the train.”

A homeless man at the station told The NY Daily News, "They were too close to the tracks.”

The survivor, 24, has been taken to Brookdale University Hospital.

According to DNAinfo.com, forty-eight people were killed by subways in New York City back in 2016 and in 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal, seven people were killed moving between subway cars.


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Cole Blake is currently an Editor at HotNewHipHop based out of Brooklyn, New York. He began working at the site as an intern back in 2018 while studying journalism at St. John’s University. In the time since, he’s graduated with a bachelor's degree and written extensively about a wide range of topics including pop culture, film & television, politics, video games, sports, and much more. He’s also covered music festivals such as Gov. Ball and Rolling Loud. You can find him publishing work for HNHH from Monday to Wednesday or on weekends. On the sports front, Cole’s a passionate NBA and NFL fan with his favorite teams being the Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles Lakers. He also roots for the Yankees whenever he finds himself at Yankee Stadium or the Red Storm when in the company of other SJU alumni. His favorite hip-hop artists are billy woods, Earl Sweatshirt, Cam’ron, MIKE, and Mach-Hommy.