An 18-year-old New York City woman was killed in a tragic incident Monday morning after she suffered a medical episode and collapsed onto subway tracks as a train approached.
The teen died at around 6:40 a.m. after being hit by the train at the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue station.
Authorities said that the train’s operator saw the young woman collapse into the tracks and pulled emergency brakes but it was too late.
“We lost a young New Yorker this morning in Queens, a young woman, 18 years old, who by all accounts investigators tell us had some kind of a medical episode and fell on the tracks and was struck and killed by a train today,” NYC Transit President Richard Davey said.
“I just wanted to start by saying our hearts and our prayers from the NYC Transit family go out to her family.”
