NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – One teen girl was killed and another was critically injured after they fell into the path of a 7 train while subway surfing in Queens on Sunday night—the second subway surfing death in a week, police said.
The teens were riding atop a 7 train around 10:50 p.m. when they fell between the train cars and were hit by a Manhattan-bound train at the 111th Street station in Corona.
Moments later, police received frantic 911 calls from witnesses, and first responders rushed to the scene.
One of the girls was killed instantly, while the other suffered a severe head injury and was rushed to NYC Health + Hospitals in critical condition, police said.
The girls' ages and names haven’t been released by police.
An investigation into the incident continued Monday morning. Trains were delayed along the 7 line for hours, but service had returned to normal before the morning rush.
The girl’s death is the sixth subway surfing death this year, with most of those killed teen boys.
Her death comes less than a week after a 13-year-old boy was killed while subway surfing on an M-line train in Ridgewood, Queens, last Wednesday night while. His body was found near the Forest Avenue station.
Hours after the boy died, a 20-year-old man was injured when he fell between train cars while subway surfing on a 5-line train at the East 180th Street station in the Bronx on Thursday morning.
Last week, NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow called the boy's death "another heartbreaking situation where a child tragically mistook riding outside subway cars for some kind of joyride."
“I implore anyone who thinks surfing trains is a game—and parents, friends and teachers who can persuade them otherwise—to understand the deadly risk and ride inside,” Crichlow said.
City Council Majority Whip Selvena Brooks-Powers said Friday that the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which she chairs, “regards subway surfing as a priority issue and we hope to hold a hearing on subway surfing in the coming weeks.”