Town and the MTA have performed nothing to stop straphangers from getting shoved into subway trains or onto the tracks — though it’s a “recognized drawback,” contends a sufferer who was paralyzed in a terrifying assault.
Queens artist Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy was left with a damaged neck and paralyzed from the chest down after a madman randomly pushed her right into a departing F practice on Could 21, 2023 at round 6 a.m. on the Lexington Avenue-63rd Avenue station.
These accountable for the subways “did not take steps to guard [her] from a recognized drawback of prison and mentally unstable folks pushing others into or in entrance of shifting trains and arrange correct safeguards and boundaries for folks ready for the subway trains whereas they’re on the platform,” in keeping with the Manhattan Supreme Court docket case.
No platform boundaries have been put in, and there’s no plan to “stop or cut back the frequency or severity of accidents to folks on the platform from being pushed,” she argues within the authorized papers.
Since 2020, 54 folks have been fatally shoved onto subway tracks, in keeping with reviews.
The Jackson Heights lady, who’s looking for unspecified damages, instructed The Submit in February she was attempting to go away the Large Apple for an opportunity to get accepted into the Miami Mission to Remedy Paralysis in Florida. Pals created a GoFundMe to help in mounting medical payments.
Ozsoy additionally sued the practice conductor for working the locomotive “at an extreme fee of pace,” and accuses the EMTs who responded that day of failing to correctly stabilize her neck and again as they bought her out of the station and into the hospital.
Kamal Semrade, 39, has pleaded not responsible to tried homicide and assault charged for allegedly shoving Ozsoy. The prison case is pending.
The MTA and town Legislation Division declined remark.
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