{"id":338193,"date":"2026-09-04T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338193\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:10:07","slug":"mta-track-worker-killed-on-bronx-subway-tracks-by-oncoming-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338193\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA track worker killed on Bronx subway tracks by oncoming train"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York City Transit employee was killed overnight by a southbound D train<\/a> while her crew was preparing scheduled track work on a Bronx subway line, the MTA said Friday.<\/p>\n

Moet McCullum, a 38-year-old mother of two, was preparing to set up flags on the tracks between the 167th St. and 161st. St. along the D line in Highbridge when she was hit by an oncoming train shortly after 11:30 p.m. Thursday, multiple transit sources told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

McCullum was in the process of setting up the flagging lights that warn oncoming trains to the presence of a work crew. The operator of the D train reported not seeing any such flags before striking McCullum, according to sources.<\/p>\n

The track worker was taken to Lincoln Hospital<\/a>, where she died.<\/p>\n

McCullum, who also worked as a conductor for NYC Transit, had been on the job for less than a year, according to payroll records and transit sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a difficult day,\u201d NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said in a statement. \u201cLast night, we tragically lost a member of our MTA family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was at the hospital last night, and this morning I was at the scene, and I met with her family,\u201d Crichlow said. \u201cI have also spoken with [MTA] Chair [Janno] Lieber and TWU Local 100 President John Chiarello \u2014 all of us are heartbroken. I ask that we all keep Ms. McCullum and her family in our thoughts and prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crichlow said the incident is under investigation. In a social media post Friday morning<\/a>, the National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to New York to investigate McCullum\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlagging\u201d \u2014 the act of warning oncoming trains that there are track workers up ahead \u2014 is regarded as among the more dangerous tasks in subway track work.<\/p>\n

NYC Transit worker Hilarion Joseph was also in his first year on the job when he was struck by a D train and killed while flagging for a track-cleaning crew<\/a> in November 2023.<\/p>\n

Another flagger, not publicly identified, suffered severe head trauma in 2024 after he was hit by an out-of-service F train in Brooklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both incidents were cited in a scathing Federal Transit Administration assessment<\/a> in 2024, which demanded the MTA improve its safety procedures<\/a> and the state\u2019s Public Transportation Safety Board to step up its oversight<\/a> of New York City Transit.<\/p>\n

The MTA appealed that report, saying its findings mischaracterized the agency\u2019s safety record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York City Transit employee was killed overnight by a southbound D train while her crew was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,141,9,24,63,615,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-338193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-subway","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338193","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=338193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}