An MTA security camera captured the gruesome video at Penn Station on Saturday morning. Yet the footage was apparently copied and then posted on the Web, resulting in a breach of protocol. The man was killed in the accident.
BY Pete Donohue
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Police are investigating the leak of a gruesome subway-surveillance
video showing a train dragging a man to his death, a transit official
said.
The shocking images, captured by a MTA security camera in Penn Station
Saturday morning, apparently were copied and then posted on the
Internet, according to a source who watched the video.
“It’s the most disturbing thing you’ve ever seen,” the source said.
The 23-year-old was struck at about 1 a.m. while walking back to the
northbound A-train platform from a narrow tunnel walkway where he went
to urinate, police said over the weekend.
In the video, the man appears to lose his footing while pushing through
a “Do Not Enter” swing gate separating the walkway and platform.
Aaron Landry/flikr A man was killed Saturday when an A train dragged him into the tunnel.
He falls into the side of a train leaving the station and is dragged into the tunnel before disappearing from view.
“Sadly, the video speaks for itself on the inherent dangers associated
with unauthorized activity in the subway system,” MTA spokesman Kevin
Ortiz said. “We are also working with the NYPD to investigate who posted
this video as there was a clear breach of protocol.”
The A-train motorman and conductor were unaware that their train had struck the man.
The motorman’s cab was already in the tunnel. Conductors watch the
platform as the train begins to exit the station but then go back inside
for their own safety.
In the video, the man isn’t visible on the walkway until the train already is moving at a significant rate of speed.
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