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Man Hit by Train Injures Leg in Park Slope, Police Say

BROOKLYN — A man's leg was injured when he was hit by a train while lying in the subway tracks of the Fourth Avenue-Ninth Street station Tuesday morning, police said.

The man, who is in his 50s, was lying in the tracks about 4:48 a.m., when he was hit, an NYPD spokesman said.

He suffered a leg injury and was treated at Methodist Hospital, police said.

It wasn't immediately clear how he came to lie in the tracks.

Investigators don't believe he's the victim of a crime, an NYPD spokesman said.