{"id":499222,"date":"2026-01-07T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:50:22","slug":"man-struck-by-r-train-after-falling-onto-tracks-at-queens-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499222\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck by R train after falling onto tracks at Queens subway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was struck by a train after falling onto the tracks at a Queens subway station on Tuesday, leaving him critically injured, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, an unidentified man believed to be in his 40s, toppled onto the northbound R train tracks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Northern+Blvd\/@40.7472926,-73.918818,14.38z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25f1a185bbd6d:0x2aa8e8c09d15ed1f!8m2!3d40.7532902!4d-73.9070802!16zL20vMGY0bDlk?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA3M0gBUAM%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Blvd. station<\/a> near Broadway in Woodside around 1:23 p.m., said police.<\/p>\n<p>He tried to climb back onto the platform, but couldn\u2019t get up in time and was struck as the train pulled into the station, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the victim to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/elmhurst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elmhurst Hospital<\/a> in critical condition, according to law enforcement. Police said no criminality was involved in the man\u2019s fall onto the tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was struck by a train after falling onto the tracks at a Queens subway station on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,4413,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-499222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-queens","24":"tag-sub-county-region","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115854614525870466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}