{"id":362768,"date":"2026-10-02T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362768\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:50:06","slug":"still-unclear-how-57-year-old-man-got-caught-in-a-train-door-dragged-to-his-death-mta-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362768\/","title":{"rendered":"Still \u2018unclear\u2019 how 57-year-old man got caught in A train door, dragged to his death: MTA official"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTA New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow<\/a> \u2014 during the Sept. 30 MTA<\/a> board meeting \u2014 said what the agency does know is that the deceased straphanger, identified by the NYPD as Yaw Boahene, boarded a Manhattan-bound A train at the Rockaway Av station around 5:48 p.m. on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n

Boahene was carrying a blue plastic bag, Crichlow said, and used a cane, but was \u201cvery unsteady\u201d on his feet when he got on the train. He rode for two stops to the Utica Av station and got up, but was still unsteady on his feet when exiting the train.<\/p>\n

Crichlow said that while the MTA had clear video footage of Boahene getting on and off of the train, it did not have a direct camera view outside of the door where he exited.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unclear at this point how he came into contact with the train,\u201d Crichlow said. \u201cDid he stumble? Did the bag get caught? Did the cane get caught? Did he step in between the gap? That we\u2019re unsure [about].\u201d<\/p>\n

That uncertainty differs from initial police reports that said Boahene\u2019s bag got caught in the door as it closed. They indicated that he then got dragged by the train down the platform until he slammed his head into a pole.<\/p>\n

But MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber also sought to emphasize that it remains unclear if Boahene\u2019s bag getting caught in the doors was the factor that led to him becoming entangled with the train.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was nothing attached to this man that got stuck in the car,\u201d Lieber said. \u201cHe was carrying this blue plastic bag, and people have surmised that that may have become entangled. But\u2026so far we don\u2019t have any proof of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crichlow added that train conductors have the responsibility of observing the platform as they close the doors and the train departs the station. He said that both the conductor and the train operator have been removed from service pending the outcome of two investigations: an internal MTA probe and a separate one led by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether or not that was done is currently under investigation,\u201d Crichlow said of the conductor\u2019s responsibility to observe the doors closing and the train as it leaves the station.<\/p>\n

The NYC Transit boss added that the MTA has already reviewed the train\u2019s last inspection from July, when it found the doors to be in good working order. The train came online in 2024.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

He said that instances of passengers getting ensnared in subway doors are quite rare due to the equipment being made to minimize the risk of that occuring.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe equipment itself is designed to prevent this from happening,\u201d Crichlow said. \u201cI\u2019m sure many have had something, whether it\u2019s a shoe or your actual backpack, get caught in the doors and the doors will open back up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MTA New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow \u2014 during the Sept. 30 MTA board meeting \u2014 said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[44255,128,8793,141,31847,9,24,16398,63,103,134722,129,131,130,134723],"class_list":["post-362768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-a-train","tag-bronx","tag-demetrius-crichlow","tag-mta","tag-mta-chair-and-ceo-janno-lieber","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ntsb","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-rockaway-av","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-utica-av"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362768","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=362768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}