© Anthony Behar
NEW YORK (77WABC) — New MTA dats shows that 50 people were either struck or killed by subway trains or found dead on New York City subway tracks during the first eight months months of last year, one less than 2020.
According to the New York Post, the data shows that 42 deaths were blamed on what the agency calls “collisions” with trains, and five others were people who may have fallen on the tracks or come into contact with the electrified third rail in this time span.
Suicides also rose 60 percent in the first eight months of 2021 to 16, compared with 10 during the same time the previous year.
Eight people fell from between cars from January through August 2021, up from six in the same period in 2020, although the data does not show how many of them may have died.
The encounters do not include a half-dozen high-profile incidents in the fall and winter, or this month’s tragic death of Michelle Go, who was pushed in front of a train at the Times Square station by a deranged homeless man. Go was fatally pushed onto the tracks by a homeless man who later turned himself into police.
