SUBWAY ACCIDENT; TRAIN MAYBE STOPS, MAYBE RUNS OVER WOMAN ON TRACKS - BUT SHE'S BARELY SCRATCHED!

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

May 24, 2010: a 26-year-old woman fainted and fell onto the subway tracks tonight at Union Square. An Eighth Avenue-bound L train pulling into the station just after 7:00 p.m. Reports say that the subway train was able to stop before running her over and causing a what could have been a horrible accident..

She was taken to New York City's Bellevue Hospital with cuts to her head, but miraculously, no serious injury.

Authorities say that the woman may have fainted and there was no criminality. Train service was halted between Eighth Avenue and Bedford Avenue for a little less than an hour.

Later, witnesses state that the train DID NOT stop before hitting her, it went right over her.

A WCBS 2 report also says the "Eighth Avenue-bound 'L' train pulled into the station and rolled over her. Somehow she survived."

NYC Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges tells us that the woman "was found under the train, conscious and alive" and, to his knowledge, did not "sustain serious injury, but she was under the train." According to WCBS 2, EMTs "who first reached her were shocked to find nothing more than a few cuts to her head. No serious injuries at all." Wild story and good ending to what might have been a tragic accident.