NEW YORK (AP) — A 19-year-old woman was crushed by a train after she jumped onto a subway track to retrieve a cell phone she had dropped, police said.
Lina Villegas was pronounced dead Tuesday at a Queens subway stop. She had dropped her phone onto the tracks and climbed down from the train platform to find it when she was hit, police said.
Villegas saw the train coming but was unable to pull herself back up to the platform in time, said Officer Jennara Everleth, a police spokeswoman.