by Terminal Proceed
Feb 25, 2005 12:04 pm US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (NORWALK, Conn.) A 20-year-old woman is recovering after she was dragged hundreds of feet by a commuter train at the Norwalk station earlier this week.
Simone Medina suffered cuts and bruises on her arms and legs after she was dragged more than 500 feet and thrown from a moving train.
"I saw the train rolling by me," Medina said Thursday. "I thought I was going to die."
Metro North spokesman Dan Brucker said Medina put herself in peril by trying to get on the train after it had started to pull away from the station.
"She went up to the train and she and her friend aboard the train attempted to shove and wedge the door open while the train was in motion," Brucker said.
Medina and her family are angered that the train did not stop, although passengers apparently yelled to conductors to stop the train and pressed emergency buttons. She says a passenger saved her by pushing her arm and leg out of the door at the last minute.
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority police department report says a station security guard saw Medina being dragged along the platform. It says the security guard ran to the train and banged on the windows, and the train stopped.
"He then states that the train began full motion again still dragging (Medina)," according to the report. Medina's left shoe was found inside the train.
Medina said she and her friend, Barbara Stevens, 19, decided to take the 5:09 a.m. train from South Norwalk to Stamford.
Stevens joined her and, as they approached the train on the platform, walked ahead of Medina and got on board. As Medina was about to enter, she said she turned her head away to face someone she thought she knew and the doors closed on her arm and leg.
The train began moving slowly and Medina hopped along until it stopped. She thought the door would open and she'd be fine. But then it began moving again.
"It picked up speed. I was caught. It was dragging me because I couldn't keep up with the train," she said.
(1010 WINS) (NORWALK, Conn.) A 20-year-old woman is recovering after she was dragged hundreds of feet by a commuter train at the Norwalk station earlier this week.
Simone Medina suffered cuts and bruises on her arms and legs after she was dragged more than 500 feet and thrown from a moving train.
"I saw the train rolling by me," Medina said Thursday. "I thought I was going to die."
Metro North spokesman Dan Brucker said Medina put herself in peril by trying to get on the train after it had started to pull away from the station.
"She went up to the train and she and her friend aboard the train attempted to shove and wedge the door open while the train was in motion," Brucker said.
Medina and her family are angered that the train did not stop, although passengers apparently yelled to conductors to stop the train and pressed emergency buttons. She says a passenger saved her by pushing her arm and leg out of the door at the last minute.
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority police department report says a station security guard saw Medina being dragged along the platform. It says the security guard ran to the train and banged on the windows, and the train stopped.
"He then states that the train began full motion again still dragging (Medina)," according to the report. Medina's left shoe was found inside the train.
Medina said she and her friend, Barbara Stevens, 19, decided to take the 5:09 a.m. train from South Norwalk to Stamford.
Stevens joined her and, as they approached the train on the platform, walked ahead of Medina and got on board. As Medina was about to enter, she said she turned her head away to face someone she thought she knew and the doors closed on her arm and leg.
The train began moving slowly and Medina hopped along until it stopped. She thought the door would open and she'd be fine. But then it began moving again.
"It picked up speed. I was caught. It was dragging me because I couldn't keep up with the train," she said.