In a troubling trend, eight people have been struck by subway trains in the past two weeks — as many as are typically injured in an entire month, the Daily News reported.
The outbreak of incidents from Feb. 13 to Feb. 24 reportedly was a mix of suicides, attempted suicides and accidents.
"It's the most I can recall, and I've been a train operator for 26 years," Steve Downs, union chairman of the train operators division, told the paper.
One man accidentally fell trying to get something off the tracks at the 116th Street 1 train station in Morningside Heights. He survived with a laceration to the head.
A teenage boy suffered a severed leg after being hit in Brooklyn, while a Queens woman survived an attempt to jump to her death, the News reported.
The train operators union said they have’t seen a surge this large in decades. There have been between 89 and 98 people hit on the tracks in each of the last three years, the paper reported.
The train operators union declined to speculate on the cause of the surge.
