A 15-year-old boy has died after falling off a train while subway surfing in Brooklyn, police say.
The teen had been riding on top of a southbound J train on the Williamsburg Bridge on Thursday morning at around 11:30 a.m. when he fell off, the New York City Police Department said in a statement.
The boy fell underneath the train and made contact with the electrified third rail, the statement added.Police did not identify the teen. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of New York, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.In June, aafter hitting his head while subway surfing on top of a New York City train. The boy was believed to have been riding on top of the train car as it entered the station and struck his head on “an unknown object” and suffered “severe head trauma,” police said at the time.
Thursday's incident is not the first time a case of subway surfing has turned deadly. In October 2021,Chantal Da Silva is a breaking news editor for NBC News Digital based in London.
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