A 15-year-old boy has died after falling off a prepare whereas subway browsing in Brooklyn, police mentioned.
The teenager had been using on high of a southbound J prepare on the Williamsburg Bridge on Thursday morning at round 11:30 a.m. when he fell off, the New York Metropolis Police Division mentioned in an announcement.
The boy fell beneath the prepare and made contact with the electrified third rail, the assertion added.
Officers responded to the incident, however the boy was pronounced useless, police mentioned.
Police didn’t determine the teenager.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is answerable for public transportation within the New York Metropolis metropolitan space of New York, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from NBC Information.
Thursday’s incident comes after numerous subway browsing circumstances had been reported this and final 12 months.
In June, a 15-year-old boy was critically injured after hitting his head whereas subway browsing on high of a New York Metropolis prepare. The boy was believed to have been using on high of the prepare automotive because it entered the station and struck his head on “an unknown object” and suffered “extreme head trauma,” police mentioned on the time.
Earlier that month, a video circulated on social media had confirmed about eight individuals subway browsing, operating and in addition dancing on high of a northbound J prepare because it handed over the Williamsburg Bridge.
Thursday’s incident is just not the primary time a case of subway browsing has turned lethal. In October 2021, a 32-year-old man died after falling on the tracks additionally whereas on a J prepare over the Williamsburg Bridge.
Marlene Lenthang contributed.
