A Brazilian student who lost her left arm and leg on the New York subway received compensation of almost US$82 million — equivalent to R$440.2 million at current prices — around ten years after the accident.
The decision taken by a federal court in Brooklyn condemned the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to pay Luisa Janssen Harger Da Silva for her accident in 2016. The information comes from the NY Post, which has been following the trial since 2017, when it began.
At the time, when she was 21 years old, Luisa and her boyfriend were waiting for a train at a subway station in Brooklyn, when she . The Brazilian woman had half of her limbs cut off.
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The court understood, almost a decade later, that the MTA did not take the issue of people falling onto train tracks seriouslywithout implementing safety strategies for passengers, despite containing studies that indicated the risks of not having safety devices on the edges of platforms.
A. Representative Tim Minton said the company has installed some type of platform barrier at 109 stations to date. For him, it is not possible to talk about “past choices” made a long time ago.
In addition to costs, Minton reiterated that platform doors at the vast majority of stations would not work due to “reasons of physical feasibility and accessibility”.
