WATCH: Woman rescued after being hit by L train in Brooklyn

ByEyewitness News WABC logo
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Crews rescue woman who was struck by subway train
David Novarro reports on the rescue of a woman who was stuck by an L train in Brooklyn.

WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A 22-year-old woman passed out and fell onto the tracks at a subway station in Brooklyn on Thursday morning.

The woman fell onto the tracks at 11:30 a.m. at the Bedford Avenue train station in Williamsburg. She was hit by a Manhattan-bound L-train, but amazingly did not suffer life-threatening injuries.

Watch full rescue here:

Video shows a woman being rescued after surviving a fall on the L train tracks.

Firefighters were able to free the woman about 20 minutes after she fell.

She was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

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