Man struck and killed by train after dropping phone on Queens subway tracks

A man was struck and killed by a subway train on Christmas Sunday after he jumped onto the tracks at a Queens station to retrieve his phone, police said.

The 46-year-old straphanger was standing on the northbound platform at the Jackson Heights – Roosevelt Avenue station when he dropped his cell phone onto the roadbed just after 11:30 p.m.

He hopped off the platform to grab the phone but was unable to get back up before a northbound F train came barreling through the station, according to police.

The train struck him and he was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said.

Police have not released his identity as they are working to notify family members.

About an hour before the man was hit by the F train in Queens, another man was found dead on an L train in Brooklyn.

William Miller

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The man’s body, still sitting upright on a bench inside the train, was discovered as the subway car pulled into Rockaway Parkway station, the last stop at the end of the line in Canarsie.

Police said there were no signs of trauma and they don’t suspect any criminality.