#SubwayNews: The car crashed thru a fence near #Q #BeverleyRd station stopping close to #ConeyIsland bound tracks http://t.co/gHbUTiyzXW
— NYCT Subway Service (@NYCTSubwayScoop) March 19, 2014
A Brooklyn driver, perhaps taking inspiration from this Nissan Rogue comemrcial, somehow managed to drive over a concrete wall, through a fence and on top of a Q train at Albermarle Road this morning shortly before 5 a.m. The suspected driver fled the scene, and no subway passengers were hurt. The Q train sustained minimal damage, though when I arrived at 7th Ave. a few hours later, Coney Island-bound trains were still running express through the area. The images are dramatic, but the idea that this how we’ve come to expect people to drive in New York City is decidedly not.
#SubwayNews: Here's another perspective of car that crashed thru fence near #Q #BeverleyRd station http://t.co/DZ0qDStuEK
— NYCT Subway Service (@NYCTSubwayScoop) March 19, 2014
9 comments
No criminality suspected
The driver probably did the informal course in “How to evade DUI and Drug stops”, presented by friends and the occasional defense attorney.
* Y’know, that is a Nissan attempting to hump the train.
Has the NYPD found a pedestrian or cyclist to beat to bloody pulp over this yet?
I think the key to mimicking the Nissan commercial is you jump in the direction of the train, not perpendicular to the train (though personally, that ad was on so many damn times during the holiday season I was hoping for it to end one day about like a few of those who’ve tried subway surfing on the Sea Beach line with a low tunnel coming up).
This could’ve been so much worse if it had happened a few seconds sooner.
Worse?
:->=
/Grumble
“We are delayed by car traffic on top of us”
Could you ever imagine the conductor saying such a statement over the loudspeakers? Or that the MTA could now have to put up signs against “car surfing” on the trains!
Yes, there is a very serious side to the whole affair! And it is very true that the situation could have been very much worse! If I remember the Nisson ads there was a disclaimer about actually doing such a stunt in the real world, and that such stunt would be very dangerous.
It makes one wonder if the MTA ad’s about: If you drop something on the tracks – Leave It! Just might have to be re-thought. LOL
Mike
If you ski something, say something.
Gives new meaning to take the “auto-train”…