scary MBTA incident last month

[ron_newman]

This young lady got hit by a large bag, fell off the platform, and nearly got killed by a train:

http://jujube-1980.livejournal.com/59557.html

She says it happened on February 28, presumably during morning rush hour. She doesn't say it happened in Davis, but she mentions Davis a couple of times, so it seems likely.

(Disclaimer: I don't know her, don't know anything about her, and am assuming that the story is fact rather than imaginative fiction. I found it during a routine Google blog search for "Charlie Card")

Comments

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

This was a couple of years ago, but I asked a MBTA officer how often people fell in the track pits and he said system wide it worked out to about one or two a week. People only hear about it in the press if they get hit or if they 3rd rail.

I don't ride the T much anymore, but back when I was a regular commuter I saw people get knocked onto the tracks twice, but people helped pull them out.