What you should know
- An MTA driver was sprayed with a “foreign substance” on a train in the Bronx, police said, in the latest violent attack to take place on the city’s subway system.
- The incident occurred on a southbound 4 train on Monday shortly before 7:15 p.m. when an unruly passenger threw the unknown substance at the 48-year-old driver at the 167th Street station.
- The driver is expected to make a full recovery, police said.
NEW YORK — An MTA driver was sprayed with a “foreign substance” on a train in the Bronx, police said, in the latest violent attack to take place on the city’s subway system.
The incident occurred on a southbound 4 train on Monday shortly before 7:15 p.m. when an unruly passenger threw the unknown substance at the 48-year-old driver at the 167th Street station, police said.
Once the train stopped at the E 149th Street Grand Concourse station, the worker was evaluated by EMS. The employee eventually had to be taken to a hospital after becoming disoriented, according to police. The passengers had to disembark after the terrible ordeal.
The driver is expected to make a full recovery, police said.
This incident comes less than a week after another MTA employee was attacked on a subway platform in Lower Manhattan. These two incidents follow a long list of broader violent attacks on the transit system, including a man attacked with a metal pipe at the Queens Borough Plaza station, a tourist slashed in the throat, a subway cellist attacked by a woman randomly with a glass bottle, and a 71-year-old man who was pushed and had his cell phone stolen.
NYPD statistics show that 64 serious assaults have been reported on the subway system so far this year. This is 10.3% more than the same period last year, when a total of 58 such crimes occurred.
Police continue to search for suspects in several of these incidents.
2024-02-21 02:35:53
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