The teenager died after being hit by another train that was coming on the opposite track, witnesses said. The incident happened near the stop on Avenue N, between the Borough Park and Midwood neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
A call to 911 around 2:20 p.m. this Friday alerted the authorities, who went to the scene and found the young man’s body. “I saw how they took the body down about an hour ago, and my heart hurt because it went down in a bag,” Teresa Rojas told Univision Noticias 41.
“Surfing on the subway kills”
“We parents give advice to our children, don’t do this, don’t go there. And sometimes our children, just to have fun, to challenge themselves with other children, are not aware of what they are doing,” Rojas warns.
“What happened today is heartbreaking and our thoughts are with the teenager’s family,” Richard Davey, president of New York City Transit, said in a statement. “ Surfing at Subway kills. I implore parents to talk to their children. To teachers with their students. “It is an absurd and lethal practice,” he indicated.
In 2023, at least five people died from climbing on top of moving train cars. A total of 450 jaywalkers were seen traveling outside cars, including on top, in the first six months of last year.
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A tragedy occurred in the New York subway after Yésika Marleny Ajtzac Guarcas, 18, lost her life after being hit by a train. According to authorities, the young Hispanic woman fainted and fell on the rails.
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The driver of the train that ran over the Guatemalan woman told investigators in the case that he put on the emergency brake to avoid the tragedy, but he did not have enough time.
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The death of the Hispanic teenager occurred around 6:50 in the morning, on Tuesday, on a platform at the Roosevelt Avenue – Jackson Heights station.
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In an interview with Univision 41, Yésika Ajzac’s relatives clarified that “she was not sick,” so they cannot explain how she could faint so close to the road and be run over. They remember her as a responsible and hard-working young woman.
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Yésika Marleny’s sister informed her parents, who are in Guatemala, of the death, and now the family is seeking to raise funds to repatriate the body. She had emigrated to the United States due to lack of opportunities in her country.
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In addition to dealing with Yésica’s death, those close to her are outraged by the video circulating on TikTok. Witnesses to the incident recorded the young woman in her agony and made the disastrous decision to publish it on the social network.
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The NYPD informed the family that it could not show them the video of the Guatemalan woman fainting and falling onto the train track, captured by a security camera. However, the scene also ended up on TikTok and shows that the young woman did collapse on the edge of the platform.
2024-01-13 20:29:00
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