Experience: I was hit by a subway train – but have no memory of it
The conductor saw me on the tracks, trying to get back on the platform. He pulled on the emergency brakes, but it was too late
When I was 25, I was working in real estate in New York. I didn’t like my career path and was trying to work out what to do with my life – and then was thrown a huge curveball. On 14 December 2010, at the Woodhaven Boulevard station in Queens I was hit by a subway train. I have no memory of it. I’ve lived in New York my entire life, so I’ve always taken the subway everywhere, but I don’t even know why I was at that station – it wasn’t on my usual route. I must have fallen asleep and missed my stop. It’s bizarre. You’d think I would remember getting hit by a train.
What I know about that day has been pieced together from what I’ve been told and the police reports. There were no cameras at the station, so I don’t know how I ended up on the tracks. According to a report, the train conductor saw me down there, trying to get back on the platform. It was an express train, so it wasn’t supposed to stop. He pulled on the emergency brakes, but it was too late.
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