March 9, 2008
Car vs. Subway in Brooklyn
The relative merits of automobiles versus mass transit are frequently debated by New Yorkers, but rarely do the two modes of transport become physically opposed to each other, as they did yesterday in Brooklyn. Service on the N line was suspended for a few hours early yesterday morning, after a car jumped the curb at 63rd St. near the New Utrecht Ave. subway station, traversed the sidewalk, crashed through a chain link fence, and fell 30 feet to the below-grade but open subway tracks. The car landed upside down and burst into flames.
The driver actually survived the crash and was listed as in stable condition at Lutheran Medical Center. Service between 36th St. and Coney Island/Stillwell Ave. was halted for a few hours on the N line, but restored by 8:30 a.m. Saturday. No cars were near the scene of the accident at the time it occurred and New York City Transit reports that there was no damage to the tracks themselves.
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Used to be that Kings County was the place where trauma victims seemed to be taken. In the past few years, seems as if Lutheran has supplanted KCH as the hospital we hear associated with gun shot wounds, knifings, motor vehicle accidents and other severe trauma. Does that say anything about the shift in location of severe trauma in Brooklyn?
Is Flatbush/Bed-Stuy safer than in years gone by and Sunset Park more dangerous? Inquiring minds want to know.
They probably brought him to whichever hospital was properly equipped and was more ready to receive. They probably decide by distance and how busy the ER is at the moment.