Boy, 13, dies after falling off M train while subway surfing in Queens
A 13-year-old boy was killed while riding atop an MTA subway car in Queens — one of two subway surfing incidents that happened in the city in 12 hours, police said.
Adolfo Samabria fell from the roof of an M train at the Forest Ave. subway stop near 67th Ave. in Ridgewood just before 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Responding officers found the teen unconscious at the station. He died at the scene.
Investigators later determined Adolfo was subway surfing when he fell off the train.
Less than 12 hours later, a 20-year-old man was rushed to the hospital with minor injuries after he fell from a No. 5 train at the E. 180th St. station in the Bronx.
The man was on top of the train when he “struck an unknown structure” and fell onto the tracks, cops said.
Luckily, he only suffered some cuts to his face and other minor injuries, officials said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the man will face criminal charges for riding atop the train.
Wednesday’s death is the fifth subway surfing fatality to occur in the city this year and the 10th in the last two years, MTA officials said.
In September, an 11-year-old boy was killed subway surfing in Park Slope, Brooklyn — the youngest person to be killed in the dangerous stunt in recent memory.
The others who died were all young teenagers — 13, 14 and 15, cops said.
The victim struck his head on an overhang at the Fourth Ave./Ninth St. stop in Park Slope, then fell to the tracks and was run over by the G train, cops said. He died at the scene.
“[This is] another heartbreaking situation where a child tragically mistook riding outside subway cars for some kind of joyride,” Demetrius Crichlow, president of New York City Transit, said about Wednesday’s death. “I implore anyone who thinks surfing trains is a game — and parents, friends and teachers who can persuade them otherwise — to understand the deadly risk and ride inside.”