MTA data shows how many times people killed by trains

The 42 deaths between January and August 2021 was one lower than throughout the identical interval in 2020.
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Almost 50 individuals had been struck and killed by subway trains or discovered useless on the tracks through the first eight months of 2021, new MTA information present.

Forty-two deaths had been blamed on what the company calls “collisions” with trains, and 5 others had been individuals who could have fallen on the tracks or come into contact with the electrified third rail on this time span, the most recent out there information present, the company stated.

The variety of deaths was one lower than throughout the identical interval in 2020.

However suicides rose 60 p.c within the first eight months of 2021 to 16, in contrast with 10 throughout the identical time the earlier yr.

Eight individuals fell from between vehicles from January by August 2021, up from six in the identical interval in 2020, though the info doesn't present what number of of them could have died.

The encounters don't embrace a half-dozen high-profile, though not lethal, shoving incidents within the fall and winter, or this month’s tragic dying of Michelle Go, who was pushed in entrance of a practice on the Instances Sq. station by a deranged homeless man.

Almost 50 individuals had been struck and killed by subway trains or discovered useless on the tracks through the first eight months of 2021.

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A mugger had shoved a girl onto the tracks on the similar station in November. She was rescued by good Samaritans.

Go’s dying renewed requires the MTA to check platform obstacles that may stop riders from being pushed onto tracks.