A 19 year old teenager from New York was killed yesterday after she tried to retrieve her dropped SprintPCS cell phone from a railway track. Lina Villegas was pronounced dead by police after she was hit by the V train, which came around a blind curve into the Grand Ave.-Newtown station in Elmhurst, heading towards Manhattan.
The girl saw the train coming and tried to pull herself back onto the platform with help from bystanders but was unable to escape the oncoming train.
"While the instinct may be very strong to climb down when you drop something on the track, obviously, don't do it," transit agency spokeswoman Deirdre Parker said"
Posted to the site on 12th February 2004
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