Saturday, August 22, 2015

A female MTA maintenance worker committed suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming Midtown subway train




Angus Mordant/for New York Daily News



BY Rocco Parascandola
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Saturday, August 22, 2015


 The worker was struck by a northbound No. 6 train after she jumped in front of it and died at the scene.

For nearly a decade Kelly McClain spent her days cleaning city subway stations. On Friday, she died at one.

The MTA maintenance worker was killed Friday afternoon when she leapt in front of an oncoming Midtown subway train — at the exact spot where she knew the impact would certainly kill her, officials and police sources said.

McClain, 45, jumped in front of a northbound 6 train at the 59th St. station about 2:45 p.m., the sources said.
The worker jumped at the end of the platform, where the uptown train barrels into the station, police sources said.

She died at the scene, cops said. “A lot of people said, ‘Somebody jumped! Somebody jumped!’” said Golam Nobi, 39, who was working in a kiosk nearby, but did not see the woman jump.

McClain had been with the MTA since 2006, according to the Transport Workers Union Local 100. Cops were investigating her death Friday night.