Man killed after getting stuck in Red Line train door at Broadway station
The incident occurred just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday as the train departed the station.
A man was killed after he got stuck in the door of a Red Line train departing Broadway station early Sunday morning, The Boston Globe reported.
The train was heading inbound at about 12:30 a.m., the Globe reported. It began to leave the station and dragged the man a short distance.
Further details have not been released, and neither has the man’s identity.
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MBTA Transit Police and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating, the Globe reported.
The MBTA has been having a number of safety malfunctions that have caused incidents in the past year.
In September, a Red Line train derailed at Broadway station, but caused no injuries. Two days before, an ascending escalator malfunctioned at Back Bay station, switching directions suddenly and causing nine people to be hospitalized.
In July, a Green Line train at Pleasant Street station crashed into the train in front of it, sending 27 people to the hospital.
Before she became the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, former Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins had begun an investigation into “lack of oversight or negligence” at the MBTA.
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