--- description: Mary Downey was drunk when she fell off the platform, officials said title: Woman Survives Being Run Over By Three NYC Subway Trains image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa73c49d3391098b/698699e8810bbbabf6c926bf/469764009.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Woman Survives Being Run Over By 3 NYC Subway Trains by [Aleksandra Gjorgievska](/author/aleksandra-gjorgievska/) ## Aleksandra Gjorgievska Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 30, 2014 3:47 PM CUT  Nyc subway train in. Motion Nyc subway train in. MotionJens Karlsson—flickr Editorial/Getty Images by [Aleksandra Gjorgievska](/author/aleksandra-gjorgievska/) ## Aleksandra Gjorgievska Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 30, 2014 3:47 PM CUT A 22-year-old New York City resident [survived](http://nypost.com/2014/06/29/woman-survives-three-trains-rolling-over-her-after-fall/ "undefined") being run over by three subway trains Sunday morning, according to the police. Mary Downey, an Irish immigrant from Woodlawn in the Bronx, was drunk when she fell onto the tracks at the W. 49th Street station in Manhattan around 6 a.m., law enforcement authorities said. Two train operators drove over Downey without noticing her; fortunately, a third saw the woman’s waving hand, but was not able to stop the train before some of its cars passed over her. Officials speculated that Downey must have rolled to a position in between the platform and the trains before she was run over. Downey was rushed to Bellevue Hospital after being removed from the tracks, but appeared to have suffered nothing more than a fractured shoulder. She was released several hours later. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2940560/nyc-subway-survives/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2940560/nyc-subway-survives/"},"headline":"Woman Survives Being Run Over By 3 NYC Subway Trains","datePublished":"2014-06-30T15:47:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:53:52.413Z","description":"Mary Downey was drunk when she fell off the platform, officials said","url":"https://time.com/2940560/nyc-subway-survives/","keywords":["Transportation","Accident","subway"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa73c49d3391098b/698699e8810bbbabf6c926bf/469764009.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aleksandra Gjorgievska","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aleksandra-gjorgievska/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa73c49d3391098b/698699e8810bbbabf6c926bf/469764009.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nyc subway train in. Motion","caption":"Nyc subway train in. Motion","creditText":"Jens Karlsson—flickr Editorial/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2940560/nyc-subway-survives/","name":"Woman Survives Being Run Over By 3 NYC Subway Trains"}}]}] ```