Girl, 13, killed subway surfing in Queens, friend, 12, critically hurt

A 13-year-old girl was killed and a 12-year-old girl critically hurt when they fell while subway surfing together in Queens and were struck by the train, police said Monday.
The Sunday night tragedy follows by just four days the subway surfing death of a 13-year-boy in Queens.
In the latest incident, the girls were surfing atop a Manhattan-bound No. 7 train when they fell off near the elevated 111th St. station in Corona at 10:38 p.m.
They were struck by the train when they fell.
One girl died at the scene and the other was rushed by medics to Elmhurst Hospital, where she is in critical condition. A police source said the survivor may have fractured her skull and has bleeding on the brain.
New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow implored parents and children to take the consequences of subway surfing seriously.
“This is no game,” Crichlow said. “There’s no reset at the end. There’s no restart when a person falls. I remember playing Nintendo. At the end of the game you just restart it. That doesn’t happen. This is a life or death matter. There is no do-over.”
“Having children that are teenagers, and one that’s pre-teen, I can’t imagine what the family’s going through right now,” Chrichlow added. “To lose a child in this manner, this is no game. The consequences, we’ve seen time and time again. I just have to implore parents, teachers, schools, friends, anyone that knows someone that is involving themselves in subway surfing or even thinking about it, to talk about the consequences.”
About 10 p.m. Wednesday, Adolfo Said Sanabria Sorzano fell off the top of an M train and landed on the tracks of the the Forest Ave. station in Ridgewood, where he was found dead.
The boy was doing an “awful” TikTok challenge, his mother said in a GoFundMe post to raise funds to cover his funeral expenses.
“Adolfo was a child full of life, with dreams and hopes,” the mom said on GoFundMe. “His passing has left a void that is impossible to fill.”
The next morning, a 20-year-old man was injured after falling off a train in the Bronx.
Police said the man was subway surfing when he collided with a structure and fell off the No. 5 train near the East 180th Street subway station, police said.
He was hospitalized and is recovering.
Parents suffering heartache from such tragedies, including 11-year-old Cayden Thompson, who was killed last month atop a G train in Brooklyn, said their kids have been captivated by social media posts of train-riding daredevils. It’s a powerful force experts say is tough for kids to resist.
Mayor Adams and the MTA have for months requested that platforms like Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok remove the videos, and some companies have complied.
Officials at the transportation agency said 2,600 videos and photos of subway surfing have been stripped from social media platforms in recent months.
“Social media had the worst effect on my son’s life,” Cayden’s mother, Jaida Rivera, 27, said after her son’s death. “He wanted to be cool. He thought all these things were cool. He thought he wasn’t cool enough and he wanted to do these things, but he was so cool!”
Relatives said Cayden constantly watched YouTube and TikTok videos of the trend.
Against this backdrop, the city has launched a public information campaign with the motto, “Subway surfing kills— ride inside, stay alive,” to raise awareness about the dangers of subway surfing. Audio announcements, on-train ads, videos and animations created by Manhattan High School of Art and Design students have been implemented in subway stations and on trains system-wide since the initiative began.