Young man and woman caught on video sitting on NYC subway tracks before being fatally struck

A young man and woman were caught on chilling video calmly sitting on subway tracks in Downtown Manhattan early Sunday before being fatally struck, law-enforcement sources said. The pair — a 24-year-old man from Sayreville, NJ, and 24-year-old woman from Dayton, NY — were on the rails near the Spring Street station shortly before 3:15 a.m. when a southbound No. 4 train slammed into them, killing both, according to sources and footage posted by The Daily Source. The clip shows the tragic pair facing the train as it bears down on them.

NYC subway 4 The young woman and man are seen on the tracks as a subway barrels towards them. There is no indication that man and woman had been pushed or fell onto the tracks. 00:01 00:00 Investigators are looking into whether the pair may have been drinking beforehand, sources said. Explore More Hayden Panettiere died after taking just one pill laced with fentanyl: report Newlywed who went missing in Upstate NY found dead in wooded area A 15-year-old Alaskan boy rescued from a capsized boat after three days made a horrifying revelation when he was pulled to safety by a passing fishing vessel. Alaskan boy, 15, who survived 62 hours at sea makes horrifying revelation after being rescued The man and woman’s names were being withheld by cops pending family notification. NYPD cops are later seen at the scene, with one of the bodies covered on the platform at the station, which appears to have been shut down after the incident. View this post on Instagram The deaths occurred a little over a week after an MTA worker and mom of three was killed by a train while working on tracks. Moet McCullum, a 41-year-old construction-flagger, was on southbound tracks at the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium station around 11:30 p.m. Sept. 3 when a D train pulled in and fatally struck her, according to the MTA. Subway flaggers alert oncoming-train operators of active work zones. NYC subway 4 Both died at the scene after they were struck. The scene where a person was critically injured after being struck by a subway train is seen on Sept. 10, 2026, at the Spring Street – Lafayette Street 6 train subway station in New York, NY. 4 Workers gather after two were fatally struck by a subway train at the Spring Street – Lafayette Street 6 train subway station in New York, NY, on Sept. 10, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post A police officer stands at the Spring Street subway station entrance. 4 A police officer stands at the Spring Street subway station entrance. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post Near-misses also happened throughout the summer. A track near-tragedy occurred in July when a deranged man pushed an elderly woman onto tracks in Midtown, prompting good Samaritan strap-hangers to rush to her rescue.
The wounded woman, 70, was attacked July 18 on the northbound side of the 57th Street and 7th Avenue station in Manhattan just before 11:30 a.m., the NYPD said. A month earlier, a 47-year-old nurse was suddenly randomly shoved into the side of an incoming train in The Bronx, leaving him with a bloody concussion. “I glanced to the right, and I see something white coming towards me,” Josue Romano told The Post afterward. “It was real fast because when I glanced, it was already coming to me, so I didn’t have time to react, to like kind of get out the way, and that’s when it happened. I got hit. “He pushed me in the back right in train that was coming in.”