Police have been unable to identify the woman because she wasn’t carrying ID. Gothamist reports that she was 50 years old.
The MTA and NYPD are investigating the incident; no criminality is suspected.
“She’s dead and it was all over a phone,” said 43-year-old Kindu Allen. “You know how it feels like to watch someone’s head explode and brains splatter? I’m traumatized.”
A source said that the driver is a 23-year-old MTA veteran who is “devastated with sorrow” and who was treated at a nearby hospital.
The driver reportedly stopped about half a block away from the site of the incident. A witness said that he “did not know what happened.”
Gothamist reports that police have said that the driver will not be cited or charged with any crime.
Photo Sources: NY Post