{"id":380144,"date":"2026-10-22T22:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:36:46","slug":"mta-crew-on-brooklyn-subway-train-that-dragged-man-to-death-were-unaware-of-deadly-mishap-ntsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380144\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA crew on Brooklyn subway train that dragged man to death were unaware of deadly mishap: NTSB"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MTA crewmembers aboard a Brooklyn subway train that dragged a man to death<\/a>\u00a0only learned of the tragic mishap after receiving a radio alert seven stops away, according to the preliminary findings of a National Transportation Safety Board investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yaw Adu Boahene, 57, was pulled into the tracks off the Manhattan-bound platform at the Utica Ave. subway station in Bedford-Stuyvesant by a passing A train around 5:45 p.m. on Sept. 28, the NTSB report<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n

As the train rumbled north, leaving Boahene with fatal injuries near the end of the platform, its crew remained unaware the victim had been dragged until they were informed via radio at the Jay St.-MetroTech station in Downtown Brooklyn more than three miles away.<\/p>\n

NYC Transit president Demetrius Crichlow said last month that \u201cthe conductor has the responsibility of observing the platform\u2026 as they\u2019re departing the station,\u201d and \u201cwhether or not that was done is currently under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before he was dragged, Boahene was seen on the train car\u2019s security cameras with a cane and a blue plastic bag, moving unsteadily toward the door after the train stopped at Utica Ave.<\/p>\n

After disembarking from the ninth car in the 10-car train \u2014 made up of R211 cars, the newest in the subway fleet \u2014 Boahene was dragged by the train\u2019s rear carriage, according to the NTSB report.<\/p>\n

Boahene died at the scene.<\/p>\n

An inspection of the train immediately after Boahene was killed revealed no issues with the train doors or the so-called \u201cindication\u201d system meant to prevent trains with obstructed doors from moving.<\/p>\n

Investigators are still working to determine how Boahene was dragged by the train and ways to prevent similar tragedies.<\/p>\n

While the NTSB has investigated multiple subway incidents in recent years \u2014 and is currently investigating the death of NYC Transit construction flagger Moet McCullum<\/a>, who was killed on the job in early September \u2014 multiple transit sources said it was unusual for the feds to investigate an incident like Boahene\u2019s dragging death.<\/p>\n

The NTSB did not send investigators in 2024 when a man died after his arm got caught in the doors of an out-of-service Q train<\/a> at the Prospect Park station, nor did the feds investigate a fatal 2022 dragging at the Q train\u2019s Avenue M stop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked why the feds had dispatched a team to Bed-Stuy, NTSB officials said they \u201chave investigated similar dragging injuries and fatalities in the past\u201d \u2014 and pointed to a 2021 investigation of a death in San Francisco\u2019s Bay Area Rapid Transit system, in which a passenger was dragged to his death by his dog\u2019s leash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough this investigation, the NTSB is seeking to understand what happened, how it happened, and whether there are lessons or safety improvements that could help prevent similar accidents in the future,\u201d NTSB spokesman Keith Holloway said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MTA crewmembers aboard a Brooklyn subway train that dragged a man to death\u00a0only learned of the tragic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-380144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","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-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380144","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=380144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}