A straphanger was killed in a freak accident when his backpack got caught in the subway door during rush hour Monday night \u2014 and he fell onto the tracks, according to police.<\/p>\n
The unidentified man was exiting a northbound train at the Utica Avenue station in Brooklyn around 5:50 p.m. when witnesses said his bag got trapped in the doors as the train started to pull away.<\/p>\n
He was dragged by the train and eventually fell between cars onto the tracks, police said.<\/p>\n
Sneakers are seen at the scene where a person was fatally struck by a train. William Miller<\/p>\n
The scene where the man was dragged by the subway train. William Miller<\/p>\n
ESU, EMTs and NYPD are at the scene of a person fatally struck by a train at the Utica Ave Station of the A, C line in Brooklyn. William Miller<\/p>\n
First responders rushed to the subway station and declared the man dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
No criminality is suspected, cops said.<\/p>\n
The man was still not identified as of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A straphanger was killed in a freak accident when his backpack got caught in the subway door during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1015,318,57,9,56,63,65,64,1687,58],"class_list":["post-359765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-deaths","tag-freak-accidents","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-subways","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359765","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=359765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}