{"id":163009,"date":"2026-03-14T01:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163009\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:50:36","slug":"man-54-struck-by-a-train-dragged-along-queens-subway-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163009\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 54, struck by A train, dragged along Queens subway platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old man was dragged along the platform of a Queens subway station after his leg was struck by a passing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/maps\/subway-line-maps\/a-line\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A train<\/a> on Friday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The straphanger was standing too close to the edge of the platform when he was struck at the Rockaway Blvd. station in Ozone Park shortly after 4 p.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The victim suffered an injury to his right leg when he was struck by the Lefferts Blvd. station-bound subway, an MTA source said.<\/p>\n<p>The MTA cut power to the third rail shortly after the train strike, and medics rushed the man to <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica Hospital<\/a> in stable condition, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old man was dragged along the platform of a Queens subway station after his leg was struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-163009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}