This MBTA surveillance photo shows Sophia Hartdegen being pulled from the Orange Line tracks after the train’s operators were able to react quickly enough to warnings from the platform to stop the train.
Posted on 11/10/2009 12:57:48 PM PST by raccoonradio
The stumbling T rider who was almost crushed to death by an Orange Line trolley after a Celtics game said today she feels lucky so many people came to her rescue.
The 26-year-old woman admits she drank four 22-ounce beers before trying to catch a train home, but added she does not have a drinking problem, she told thebostonchannel.com today.
“I am incredibly thankful that there are that many people who would do something,” Sophia Hartdegen was quoted as saying. “I am incredibly thankful the driver was alert.”
The Cambridge woman told the site she’s “traumatized by her near death experience and is afraid to go out into public because she is humiliated.”
Orange Line motorwoman Charice Lewis, 27, of Mattapan and Orange Line inspector Jacqueline Osorio, 29, of Dorchester were lauded by transportation officials for noticing T passengers waving frantically.
The two T workers brought the trolley to a stop just in time to not harm the woman.
Hartdegen fell into the trolley pit at North Station Friday night right after the Celtics game. She was pulled out right after the trolley came to a full stop.
This MBTA surveillance photo shows Sophia Hartdegen being pulled from the Orange Line tracks after the train’s operators were able to react quickly enough to warnings from the platform to stop the train.
I could cope with humiliation loads better than being crushed by a train.
Let’s see... she downs over a half gallon of beer but doesn’t have a drinking problem. Falls into a pit in front of a trolly but doesn’t have a drinking problem?
yeah that’s always my first response -—nope I don’t have any problem at all. Think I’ll go have a drink
But really, who among us has not drunk four 22 ounce beers at some time or another and gotten a little too close to the third rail of the subway...? Happens to lots of us, doesn’t it?
She’s humiliated because she got drunk and fell in front of a train on film... Seems to me, that’s a normal reaction. Hopefully she’ll be more careful in the future, fortunately she’s alive to have that future.
We all make mistakes dear, very fortunately your’s wasn’t fatal.
Most of the lushes I used to know didn't have a drinking problem either...
Some dumb, fat drunken Bostonian fell in front of a train.. Ted wasn’t around to do this so she volunteered?
But still 4 22ozs and she falls off the platform?
The chick needs more practice. Takes practice to drink and walk. I'll bet she was also chewing gum.
File this under no good deed goes unpunished.
If she had only driven home, non of this would have happened
Well, better humiliated than decapitated.
She drank too much at a sporting event/outing. I don’t see one incident as a drinking problem... if she has a history of binge drinking fine, but an isolated incident does not a drinking problem make.
She may have one, but from one incident? I don’t jump to that conclusion.
She drank too much at a sporting event/outing. I don’t see one incident as a drinking problem... if she has a history of binge drinking fine, but an isolated incident does not a drinking problem make.
She may have one, but from one incident? I don’t jump to that conclusion.
She drank too much at a sporting event/outing. I don’t see one incident as a drinking problem... if she has a history of binge drinking fine, but an isolated incident does not a drinking problem make.
She may have one, but from one incident? I don’t jump to that conclusion.
She’s right: she clearly has no problem drinking...
I work overnights, and pick up the Orange line one stop after North Station some nights.
She should be ashamed she lives in Cambridge, the drunken moron.
I’ll drink to that!!
What about binge posting?
;^)
Well, thanks for clearing that up. I wonder what wudda happened if she did have one.
My most sincere sympathies to her liver, the poor thing.
True that....
A subway operator is being credited with saving the life of a woman who fell on to the tracks.
Her quick action - and the actions of MBTA riders who alerted her saved the day.
MBTA officials honored the driver and an inspector today for what they call their “swift, decisive actions.”
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/11/09/Dramatic-video-Train-operator/1257800977.html
I guess she’s a hero for not texting while driving? how is this heroism?
I was credited for stopping at a red light today,but I am a superhero.
She should run for Senate in MASS.
88ozs ? I couldn’t drink that much water or fruit punch in one sitting. Gee whiz.
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