An American college student escaped a major accident at the subway station with a difference of ‘one sesame leaf’.
According to cbs and Boston.com in the US on the 7th (local time), this happened on the 1st at Boston Subway Red Line Harvard Station.
Ciana Navarro (female, 21), a senior studying accounting at Suffolk University, usually rides the green line to go to school, but on the day of the incident, she took the red line for other business.
It was around 4:00 PM when Navarro got off at Harvard Station. As I stepped off the train and stepped onto the stairs, a large panel fell from the ceiling.
The panel landed right in front of Navarro, barely touching the tip of his left shoe. It is said that debris and dust went into Navarro’s mouth.
boston.comThe collapsed panels are rectangular in shape made by adding other materials to aluminum, and have a total weight of 25 pounds (approximately 11.3 kg). If he had been hit in the head, he could have lost his life.
Navarro paused blankly for a moment, then resumed his steps. “I froze for a moment in shock,” he said. “Even when I came out, I stood there for a few minutes trying to sort out what had just happened.”
“I don’t know what could have happened if I had taken one more step,” he added. “I am grateful that it could have been worse.”
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has begun replacing about 100 panels at Harvard Station, believing that the ceiling structure installed in the 1970s had corroded and had fallen panels. In addition, the entire history of the red line was inspected.
The red line users were dizzy at the thought that they might have been hit and said, “The test was too late. Before the ceiling collapsed, regular inspections should have been conducted,” the media reported.
Source: Donga
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