Accidents
LIRR Gap Issue Rears Its Ugly Head Again
The station gap issue that has been tormenting the Long Island Rail Road for almost 2 years now once again rears its ugly head. I had just finished talking about them in the previous entry especially relating to big gaps that I’ve seen. I had linked to an older entry I made about the huge […]
Multiple LIRR Train Incidents
The last few days for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) have not been good. First was the accident which happened last Friday as a Jamaica bound Montauk train hit a man shortly after leaving the Hampton Bay station. Here is the brief report about the incident by Bill Mason of Newsday: A man sitting […]
Woman Saved From Train Tracks
Three days ago, a most likely horrible incident was averted as a Brooklyn woman was saved after falling to the tracks at the Myrtle-Willoughby Avenues station on the line. NY1 has the story: A woman was rescued after falling onto subway tracks in Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon at around 4 p.m. at the Myrtle and Willoughby […]
Drunk Man Survies Fall Onto Tracks
Yesterday evening a drunk man survived after falling onto the tracks at the Metro-North’s Brewster Village station. The Associated Press (via The New York Daily News) had the brief story: BREWSTER, N.Y. – Metro-North police say a “highly intoxicated” man who fell off the platform as a train pulled into the Brewster Village station has […]
M103 Service Alert Details
Earlier this morning, I posted an entry about a M103 service alert which led to the detours which are still in place as I write this entry. The incident referred to in the service alert was the result of a dump truck hitting a Fung Wah bus. Sewell Chan of the New York Times City […]
