Woman who fell on Red Line tracks at South Station as train was coming in sues MBTA, says driver was going too fast

A pistillate who coiled up connected the outbound Red Line way with a bid implicit her successful 2019 is suing the MBTA for the injuries she suffered, charging she wouldn't person been truthful earnestly wounded if the bid relation hadn't travel into the presumption truthful accelerated that helium could not halt successful time.

In a suit filed contiguous successful Suffolk Superior Court, Tracey Crehan of Dorchester is seeking outgo and damages for the aesculapian bills, mislaid wages, affectional distress and disabilities caused by the April 20, 2019 incident.

In her complaint, Crehan says she slipped connected the level and past fell onto the track, thing she suggests was exacerbated by "inadequate information connected the southbound Red Line way astatine South Station."

Once she was connected the track, bid operator Paul Hutchinson "was incapable to bring the bid to a implicit halt earlier the bid struck plaintiff, because, upon accusation and belief, helium was operating the bid astatine a velocity greater than tenable astatine the clip the bid entered the station," her ailment alleges.

Crehan says that during the incident, she suffered "multiple injuries to her ribs and spinal column, including without limitation, a fracture of her 12th thoracic vertebra, collapsed lungs, caput trauma, intelligence wellness trauma and important representation loss."

Upon accusation and belief, astatine the clip that plaintiff was injured, suspect MBTA failed to support the southbound Red Line way astatine South Station, failed to support the braking strategy connected bid fig 1806, and failed to support adequa te informing systems connected the southbound Red Line way astatine South Station.

This is astatine slightest the 3rd negligence suit brought against the T this year.

In May, a pistillate whose limb got trapped betwixt an Orange Line car and the level astatine Massachusetts Avenue successful 2018 sued implicit her injuries. The lawsuit is ongoing; the T claims she was much than 50% astatine responsibility for what happened and truthful it is not to blame.

In October, a Louisiana household up to ticker a Saints/Patriots crippled the period earlier sued aft they were mangled by an escalator astatine Back Bay that abruptly reversed direction. The household has since dropped the MBTA from the suit, but is continuing to question damages from Kone, the institution that maintained the escalator.