New York – New York City police are questioning a suspect in the death of a subway rider who was shoved onto the tracks.
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New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne says investigators recovered security video showing a man fitting the description of the assailant working with street vendors near Rockefeller Center.
Police went there Tuesday and took him into custody.
Ki-Suck Han of Queens died shortly after being hit by a train Monday at the Times Square subway station.
Police say he tried to climb a few feet to safety, but got trapped between the train and the platform’s edge.
Subway pushes are unusual. Among the more high-profile cases was the January 1999 death of Kendra Webdale. A former mental patient admitted he shoved her to her death.
Oy gevald. Nebech he died. That is terrible. We should all learn a lesson from it not to stand too close to the rails
Instead of this moron photographer standing there and snapping photos of this man about to die, why didn’t he try to help him get back up on the platform or at least tell him to lie down in the middle of the roadbed so that the train would pass safely over him?
Oy vey, how sad. What a missa Meshuna.
Why do the motormen and motorwomen have to enter a station, at a very rapid rate of speed? Can’t they come in at a slower speed, so that they could stop more quickly, in the event of such an emergency? How much time is actually saved, by entering a station at 40 mph? Also, regarding someone’s suggestion about someone lying flat on the tracks to avoid being killed, it doesn’t always work that way. There is very little clearance between the bottom of the cars and the tracks. Also, there are variances pertaining to clearances, among the many models of subway cars in use.
The MTA should require that passengers stand no closer than six feet from the edge of a platform, when trains enter a station.
It’s time for USA subway systems, NYC in particular, to investigate the installation of Platform Screen Doors (PSD) for prevention of this. See Wikipedia for “Platform Screen Doors”.