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Wheelchair accident feeds transit users fears

A woman was struck by a train and seriously injured after the back wheels of her electric wheelchair got stuck on the yellow studded area of a Penn Station subway platform, police said Monday.

The Manhattan woman, 52, who police did not identify, had just gotten off a No. 2 train Sunday evening when she turned around to see why her chair was caught, witnesses told investigators. As the train...

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