TEENAGE BOY'S LEG SEVERED IN SUBWAY TUNNEL ACCIDENT

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Bronx Injury Lawyer)

Jose Juarez, age 16, of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was injured in a tragic accident in a New York City subway tunnel at around 10:00 Saturday evening (February 13, 2010).

The teenager was allegedly preparing to paint graffiti in a tunnel. Thus the boy, his brother, and cousin were walking the northbound tracks of the "N" line. The accident occurred about seventy-five feet north of the King Highway station's platform.

The youths had seen a train leaving the station and were pressed into recesses along the tracks that were for use by maintenance workers. It is uncertain how Jose's leg got caught by the train.

According to an unidentified police officer, the boy was hit by a "shoe," the metal part of the train that connects it to the third, electrified rail. The officer felt Jose was lucky in only losing his leg, because he easily could have been electrocuted and his death would have been instant, and horrible.