NEW YORK (AP) — A woman was fatally struck by a subway train after she fell onto the tracks at Grand Central Terminal, police said Wednesday.
The 20-year-old woman somehow fell onto the tracks as a 7 train approached shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday, a police spokesperson said.
The train operator was unable to brake in time to avoid hitting the woman, police said.
She was pronounced dead at the scene and has not yet been identified.
Transit officials announced a plan earlier this year to install safety barriers in three of the city’s subway stations in a pilot program intended to prevent deaths on the tracks.
However, the MTA said that a survey of the 472 stations in the subway system found that just 41 of them could be retrofitted with the barriers today.
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