'An Attack On All Of NYC:' MTA Responds To Bike-Train Crash Video

ASTORIA, QUEENS — "Oh my god, oh no, no, no, no, no," said a straphanger in the Steinway Street subway station, as they pulled out their phone on Sunday night just in time to film a train barrel into a bicycle in the tracks.

The now-viral video, captures an incident that happened around 10:22 p.m. in the Astoria subway station, where a person threw a bike into the tracks in the path of an oncoming train.

Despite activating emergency brakes, two R-trains hit the bike, or parts of the bike, within the span of three minutes.

The first train-bike impact caused a cascade of sparks, as the bike was crushed into pieces, followed by a plume of smoke. As smoke filled the station, straphangers on the other side of the tracks ran to escape the platform, the video shows.

In a written statement to Patch, MTA Communications Director, Tim Minton, described the incident as an "attack on all of New York City that took place in the transit system."

"The miscreants who threw that bike in the path of an oncoming train should be prosecuted for their reckless disregard for safety of subway riders and workers," he added.

The MTA, however, did not respond directly to Patch's inquiry about the safety of riders and workers who were on the train during the collision. No injuries have been otherwise reported.