A 14-year-old boy has died following falling between New York subway cars last night in the Bronx.
The teenager was traveling on a northbound Line 5 train when he possibly slipped while moving between two carriages near the East 180th Street Station. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the New York Police (NYPD) said.
Police are looking for witnesses and surveillance video to see if the boy had climbed on top of the car and was “surfing the Metro” when he fell, sources told the newspaper. New York Post.
The East 180th Street Station is not underground, but elevated and in the open air. This death occurred a few days following Zackery Nazario, a 15-year-old boy, died while “surfing” on the Metro crossing the Williamsburg Bridge on February 20.
Nazario was riding on the roof of a Manhattan-bound J train when he hit his head on part of the structure, according to police. His mother, Norma Nazario, told the New York Post on Thursday that he plans to sue the MTA for failing to prevent the accident that It has become a very dangerous fashion among young people.
The MTA said in a statement that “riding off the subway cars is dangerous and once morest the rules, and we will not comment on pending litigation.”
There have been several similar cases with victims of the same age. “In New York City, incidents of people riding out of train cars, known as ‘surfing’ on the Subway, have more than quadrupled in a year. Two recent deaths show the dangers of a trend fueled by social media,” he said. The New York Times when reporting the death of Nazario.
The MTA said it will ask social media companies to remove videos of subway “surfers,” said President Janno Lieber a day following Nazario’s death, reported Gothamist.
Last December, another 15-year-old also died when he fell while “surfing” on a carriage on the same J line while crossing the Williamsburg Bridge.
In August a 15-year-old lost an arm following falling off a train on the R line northbound at the 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue station in Jackson Heights (Queens) while trying to get on the roof of the car to “surf” in the Metro.
In June another 15-year-old hit his head while riding on top of a 7 train in Queens and was found unconscious at the 111th Street station.