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LIRR rider hurt after platform fall in Ronkonkoma

Police said an intoxicated Long Island Rail Road

Photo credit: James Carbone | Police said an intoxicated Long Island Rail Road customer was injured while exiting a train at Ronkonkoma. (Feb. 19, 2013)

A Long Island Rail Road customer, who police said was intoxicated, was injured while exiting a train at Ronkonkoma and possibly tripped on the station platform gap.

LIRR spokesman Salvatore Arena said the man, who officials would not identify, was getting off an eastbound train due in Ronkonkoma at 12:37 p.m. that left Penn Station at 11:14 a.m. when he "apparently tripped over the gap and...

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