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A woman was crushed this afternoon between an oncoming 6 Train and the northbound platform at the 77th Street station.

"She dropped her backpack and she jumped in," Ninnie said. A northbound train came charging into the station.

"People were telling her to lie down," said Jahmal Reid, also 13, who said he was standing with Ninnie. "But she was too scared."

The witnesses said the girl tried to pin her body flat against the platform wall, but she was crushed by the train as it pulled into the station.

The packed train came to a stop most of the way into the station. Part of the girl's head and arm were visible between the platform and a door of a car toward the front of the train. Passengers inside the car were screaming.

Gruesome. In addition to the "never go in after anything that falls on the tracks rule," it's a good time to reiterate the situations in which you should pull the emergency brake.