One person is dead and another was hospitalized with minor injuries after a person was struck by a train on Halloween night at Bergen Street Station in Brooklyn. The FDNY said it received an emergency call just after 9 p.m. Saturday reporting the incident on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line, and one of the people involved was pronounced dead at the scene.
The call came in at 9:15 p.m. Saturday, according to FOX 5 New York, which reported that a second person was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries. As of the station's report, police had not released the identity of the person who died or any further details about what led to the strike.
Police have yet to say how the person ended up on the tracks or whether the circumstances are considered accidental, and no additional information about the injured rider — including their condition beyond the initial report of minor injuries — had been made public. The FDNY was the only agency cited as a source of information on the incident.
A Recurring Hazard on the Tracks
Saturday's fatality adds to a string of subway incidents across Brooklyn this year that have put fresh attention on platform and track safety. In a separate case, 57-year-old Yaw Boahene died after his shopping bag got caught in the doors of a northbound A train as he was exiting at the Utica Avenue station, according to CBS News New York. That outlet also noted a similar incident in October 2022, when a 20-year-old man from New Jersey died after his clothes or backpack became stuck in a 1 train door at the Columbus Circle station.
Another Brooklyn subway death was reported by PIX11, which said one person died after being struck by a train on a Sunday night, according to officials. In that incident, which occurred at the Bushwick Avenue-Aberdeen Street station, the MTA suspended L train service in both directions between Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues and Atlantic Avenue while emergency crews responded.
MTA Data Shows Track Intrusions Still a Major Delay Driver
Track intrusions remain one of the most disruptive problems in the subway system. The MTA has said that about 6% of all subway delays in 2025 were attributed to a person or debris on the tracks, and the agency's own data show that incidents involving a person struck by a train caused delays of more than one hour and 15 minutes in 2026 — more than nine times longer than the median eight-minute delay tied to ordinary trespassing incidents, according to the MTA.
The transit agency recorded 1,297 unauthorized track entries in 2025, a 22% jump from 1,062 in 2019, the reporting shows. More recently, the agency logged 491 track intrusions in the first four months of 2026, down slightly from 505 during the same stretch in 2025. Crews halt train service and cut track power before first responders can step onto the tracks during any intrusion response, per the same agency account.
Barriers and AI Detection Among Proposed Fixes
To curb the problem, the MTA has been rolling out steel platform-edge barriers system-wide, reaching a total of 158 stations by the end of June, with plans to have them in close to 200 of the system's 472 stations by the end of this year. The agency has reported an 11% decrease in accidental or unintentional track trespassing incidents at stations where the barriers have gone up. Installing the barriers costs roughly $100,000 per station when done by in-house crews, compared with $300,000 through an outside contractor, the policy brief notes.
Separately, the MTA has floated testing artificial-intelligence track-intrusion detection technology at one underground station and one elevated station, though the specific locations have not yet been determined, as reported by thecityreporter.nyc. The proposed two-year pilot at those two stations would cost an estimated $10 million to $50 million. It remains unclear whether platform barriers are in place at Bergen Street Station, and police have released no further details on Saturday's fatal incident as the investigation continues.
