A woman drunkenly tumbled onto subway tracks and was fatally struck by a train in Brooklyn early Sunday, despite her friend’s best efforts to save her, cops said.
The 30-year-old victim fell off the Broadway Junction A/C train platform around 12:20 a.m., according to police. She tumbled between two subway cars on a Manhattan-bound A train as it began to roll away from the station, said MTA spokesman Shams Tarek.
The woman’s pal attempted to rescue her and police said she also ended up on the subway tracks.
“People banged on the moving train to get it to stop,” a witness with the Twitter handle @nuffsaidny tweeted. “I was shook up. You could hear them moaning under the train.”
The train ran over the first woman who fell. She died at the scene.
Her 24-year-old friend was taken to Brookdale University Hospital with a broken arm, cops said.
The train’s emergency brakes were activated after it rolled over the woman who fell. Police said the train’s conductor and operator did not see the incident.
Witnesses told police that both women were clearly intoxicated.
A homeless man at the Broadway Junction station said he witnessed the tragic incident. “They were too close to the tracks,” he said.
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