NEW YORK — A Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee is in intensive care at a Brooklyn hospital after being struck by a subway train early today (Thursday, June 6).
WABC-TV reports the 64-year-old man, serving as a flagger for a group of four other workers performing track inspections, was hit by an out-of-service northbound F train near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets station just after midnight. He was hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital with head trauma. The injured employee has served as a track worker for six years, the New York Post reports.
“The employee is responsive,” Demetrius Crichlow, New York City Transit senior vice president, Department of Subways, told reporters. “He opens his eyes, but that’s probably the extent of his communications at this point.” Crichlow is set to become NYC Transit interim president as of next week [see “New York City Transit President Davey selected …,” Trains News Wire, May 29, 2024].
The incident is under investigation.
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