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LIRR gap fall at Syosset station
BY JENNIFER MALONEY
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April 11, 2007, 8:31 PM EDT
A 73-year-old Queens Village woman Wednesday morning was the latest victim of the notorious gap at the Syosset Long Island Rail Road station.
Shortly after the woman's fall, LIRR officials acknowledged that parts of the station's new $1.3-million closed-circuit television system were malfunctioning.
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A police investigation found that at 9:35 a.m. the woman stepped into the gap, one leg plunging down between the platform and the train as she fell into the train's vestibule, said LIRR spokesman Sam Zambuto.
In response to concerns about gaps as wide as 15 inches at the Syosset station, the LIRR in February installed a $1.3-million camera system -- comprising 24 cameras and six display screens -- designed to give conductors a full-length view of the platform.
Though a fully operational camera system would not have prevented the woman's fall yesterday, Zambuto confirmed that four of the station's six new video display screens are malfunctioning and would be replaced "as soon as possible."
The woman, who was not identified, was taken to North Shore University Hospital in Syosset, where she was treated for pain in both knees and released, officials said.
Zambuto said the passenger fell through a gap of between 7 and 8 inches near the west end of Syosset's Platform A. That platform has gaps wider than 10 inches, according to Newsday and LIRR measurements.
In February the LIRR improved gaps there by shifting the platform and tacking boards to the platform edge, but railroad officials say they cannot significantly narrow Syosset's gaps without costly measures.
Newsday found that since 1989 the Syosset station had seen at least 39 gap falls.
BY JENNIFER MALONEY
[email protected]
April 11, 2007, 8:31 PM EDT
A 73-year-old Queens Village woman Wednesday morning was the latest victim of the notorious gap at the Syosset Long Island Rail Road station.
Shortly after the woman's fall, LIRR officials acknowledged that parts of the station's new $1.3-million closed-circuit television system were malfunctioning.
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A police investigation found that at 9:35 a.m. the woman stepped into the gap, one leg plunging down between the platform and the train as she fell into the train's vestibule, said LIRR spokesman Sam Zambuto.
In response to concerns about gaps as wide as 15 inches at the Syosset station, the LIRR in February installed a $1.3-million camera system -- comprising 24 cameras and six display screens -- designed to give conductors a full-length view of the platform.
Though a fully operational camera system would not have prevented the woman's fall yesterday, Zambuto confirmed that four of the station's six new video display screens are malfunctioning and would be replaced "as soon as possible."
The woman, who was not identified, was taken to North Shore University Hospital in Syosset, where she was treated for pain in both knees and released, officials said.
Zambuto said the passenger fell through a gap of between 7 and 8 inches near the west end of Syosset's Platform A. That platform has gaps wider than 10 inches, according to Newsday and LIRR measurements.
In February the LIRR improved gaps there by shifting the platform and tacking boards to the platform edge, but railroad officials say they cannot significantly narrow Syosset's gaps without costly measures.
Newsday found that since 1989 the Syosset station had seen at least 39 gap falls.