MTA Accidents

If you’ve never ridden the subway before and would find it interesting to know, then I would point out that to access the Subways typically riders need to either go downstairs to the train or take stairs up to the train. This is how the original subway system is set up, to go up or downstairs. in large part in Manhattan the Subways are beneath the ground. and in some cases, and in some areas the Subways are above ground. There’s The High Line in Manhattan on the west side in the 20s there is a walk and it’s basically converted into a sidewalk. It used to be an elevated Subway in Manhattan. Those elevated Subways in Manhattan no longer exist, they are simply all Underground now. There are above ground Subways in Brooklyn and Queens and in the Bronx up north. It makes a big difference whether you’re traveling above ground or below ground, from a rider experience.

But whether you are above ground or below ground, accidents can happen on the subway. Buses require less of a description because those are street level and the only important thing to note is that you can probably tell that there are special lanes for buses to travel in so that it will decrease the travel time and encourage people to take buses, and discourage people to drive cars, because there are dedicated lanes for buses, which make the travel on the buses at least in theory go faster.

And then there is the ferry system, which is quite unique, and quite fun to travel. The ferries all have their unique routes, some go from points in Manhattan to other points in Manhattan, and others go from points in Manhattan to New Jersey and vice versa. The most profound ferry system is the one that travels to and from or between Manhattan and Staten Island is about a 20 or 30 minute boat ride and it is absolutely beautiful. One of the best times to travel to and from Staten Island on the Staten Island Ferry is around Sunset time, because it has a beautiful view of the Statue of Liberty that you can catch at Sunset and is absolutely remarkable and beautiful and it’s one of the things that I highly recommend doing. and one of the best parts about that whole experience is that the subway to and from Staten Island is absolutely free. and this is because the residents of Staten Island at one point felt detached from the rest of New York City so they were accommodated by being provided free travel to and from New York city.

There are some nuances about filing a claim with respect to the MTA and your MTA accident attorney New York should know this. The biggest thing is that a notice of claim must be followed within 90 days and this is for any accident involving Metro-North which is the train system that goes basically the westchester, the Long Island railroad, MTA buses, the New York City Transit authority, and the MTA generally. This claim must be filed within 90 days of the accident.   If you miss that filing deadline within the 90 days it almost always destroys the case and leads to dismissal of the case unless the court grants permission to make a late fall claim, which is quite rare.

To deal with an MTA accident in case your MTA accident attorney New York needs to understand the New York public authorities law and how that applies to any of the places where Claims can be filed or the entities to which Claims can be filed against, more specifically, as mentioned above palm of the one on railroad, MTA buses, the New York City Transit authority, and the MTA MCA generally, and as well as metro-north. 

Now a lot of people don’t know this but it is important to understand that the Metro-North MTA bus New York City Transit Authority MTA and Long Island Railroad are all public Authority defendants they are not private defendants so what that means is that there’s typically special procedural defenses and there are different immunity protections and there are shorter deadlines. you need to speak to your MTA accident attorney New York to go over these.

As any good MTA accident attorney New York will tell you, within the MTA there are various types of accidents for instance on the Long Island Railroad or Metro North there are boarding injury accidents there’s platform gaps as well and there are sometimes derailments. With respect to the subway there are platform Falls train doors closing on passengers there are people that fall on the tracks and there are mechanical or electrical Failures. in terms of bus accidents there are boarding injuries when people are trying to get on or off the bus and fall, there are issues associated with pastors being hurt while they are standing on the bus is traveling, and there are also collisions with vehicles or pedestrians with the buses collide with vehicles or pedestrians and then there’s what’s called sudden jerk and jolt stops which cause people to get injured as well. There are also other types of injuries that involve rather than the operation of the bus or Subway or train, there are also claims for negligent security and these include failure to monitor dangerous conditions, there can be tracks on excuse me tax on board trains and there can be attacks or assaults in stations as well and there are other defects that relate to the stations themselves which include issues with broken steps, issues with turnstiles, and Lease call leaks causing slips as well. One thing you should know is that the evidence is almost exclusively controlled by the MTA because the MTA is the one that monitors and keeps all of the video and other surveillance footage in addition driver operator reports are often internal and Records like training records require legal demands. and maintenance logs and other things are not typically disclosed without legal intervention and it is imperative to send out legal preservation letters. Your MTA accident attorney New York can and should do this.

The attorney staff at The Lawyer James can help you with your MTA accident claim. Call us at 212-500-1891 to schedule a call. You can speak with a receptionist and they will schedule a call with an attorney. Thank you