N.Y. Woman Survives Fall Under Subway Train
A pregnant woman fainted and fell into the path of an oncoming subway train Friday but escaped serious injury because she landed in the trough between the tracks.
Carmen Genao wasn’t touched by the train’s undercarriage as one of the 60-foot cars passed over her in Brooklyn’s 36th Street station. She also avoided any contact with the electrified third rail.
After she had regained consciousness and crawled out from under the car, passersby helped the 22-year-old woman off the tracks. She was taken to a hospital with only “bumps and bruises,” said Transit Authority spokesman Termaine Garden.
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