Pregnant Woman Falls Beneath Train, Survives She Fainted In Subway, But Fell Between Tracks From Wire Reports

A pregnant woman fainted and fell into the path of an oncoming subway train Friday, but escaped serious injury because she landed in the trough between the tracks.

Carmen Genao wasn’t touched by the train’s undercarriage as one of the 60-foot cars passed over her in Brooklyn’s 36th Street station. She also avoided any contact with the 600-volt electrified third rail.

“Everyone was screaming and crying. I was screaming ‘The train killed her! It killed her!”’ said Genao’s cousin, Olga Reyes.

After regaining consciousness and crawling out from under the car, the 22-year-old woman was helped off the tracks by passers-by. She is four months pregnant.

She was taken to a hospital with only “bumps and bruises,” said Transit Authority spokesman Termaine Garden.

Transit Authority officials said the train operator saw the woman fall into the path of his train.

The officials said he was traveling only about 10 mph. But even after engaging the brakes, one full 60-foot, 80,000-pound car and a third of another rolled over the woman.

Genao said she remembered taking one step toward the edge of the platform, anticipating where the train would stop. Then everything went black.

When she woke up, she was lying sideways on the track, with her arms extended and and her body feeling like it had just been grazed by the wheels all around her.

“I thought I was dreaming and then I started screaming,” she said, wrapped in a brown hospital blanket and sitting on a gurney, breaking into sobs.

She said she heard her cousin screaming somewhere above her. She heard screams echoing across the crowded platform.

“I heard everyone screaming and then I got scared,” she said. “And then I just said thank you God.”

Genao works as a medical assistant and has a 3-year-old daughter.