Time Out New York asked Samuel L. Jackson if he had seen anyone fall on the subway tracks in New York. He answered:
I myself was dragged by a subway train. Years ago, in 1990. I was getting off the train, a lady dropped her bag, and I stopped to pick up her stuff. Had one foot on the platform, one foot on the train, and the door shut and the train took off. I got dragged the length of the platform! Luckily I was in the last car, I was a car and a half away from the tunnel before someone pulled the emergency cord. ...It ripped my ACL to shreds. And I sued the shit out of the MTA!