Woman Pushed Into Train’s Path Survives
A woman on her way home from work was pushed into the path of a subway train but survived by rolling between the tracks, inches from the train’s steel wheels and the electrified third rail. About half of the first car passed over her before the train stopped.
“It wasn’t my time,” Yvonne McCargo told Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who spoke to reporters after visiting her at a hospital.
McCargo, 46, was pushed at a Brooklyn station Wednesday evening. Other passengers chased the attacker without catching him. McCargo was treated for a broken arm and deep cuts to the left side of her forehead and ear. She needed a dozen stitches and plastic surgery.
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