GOOD SAMARITAN DIES IN QUEENS SUBWAY ACCIDENT
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Injury Lawyer)
On Saturday May 14, 2010 a woman dropped her jacket onto the subway tracks at Astoria's 36th Avenue station. Throwing common sense to the wind, she jumped down onto the tracks to get back her jacket.
As a northbound N train came screaming into the station, Brooklyn resident Jose Gomez, age 29, then jumped down to help the as yet unidentified woman.
The New York City subway train struck them both. The two were pinned under the train while New York City Transit workers worked to turn off the electricity to thed tracks.
The accident victims were to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, for their injuries. Jose Gomez was declared dead. The woman was critically injured.
Train service to the Queens subway station was down for about an hour after the accident. Witnesses agreed that the woman's decision to jump down to retrieve her jacket caused the tragedy that brought death to Mr. Gomez.
