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

[kpht.livejournal.com]

If this ever happens, I've noticed the universal sign for incoming trains to stop immediately is a flashlight waved into the tunnel (I saw it firsthand at N. Station while they were doing platform work and saw it in an article where a cop saved a guy who'd fallen). I'm one of those who has an LED flashlight on their keychain so I'd assume others have the same. Just worth mentioning. Sometimes the train stopping 10 feet earlier is what it takes.

That, and if you know that train's coming and you won't get up on the platform in time, run into the tunnel 20 feet or so - train's stopping anyway, just avoid that third rail. I'd assume a lot of people panic and try to get out at the spot they dropped and waste valuable seconds when they can most likely safely get out if they outrun the train.