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Woman Dies After Dog’s Leash Gets Stuck on Subway Car

A tragedy occurred in San Francisco Monday afternoon when a woman died after being dragged by a Bay Area Rapid Transit train. According to footage and eyewitness accounts, 41-year-old Amy Adams boarded the train with…

IJR SyndicatedSep 15, 20212 min read

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, stayed inside the train and was not harmed.

While pets are required to be in carriers when traveling on BART, service dogs are allowed to board while leashed. Authorities are uncertain whether the Dog was a service animal, though it did appear to be wearing a vest.

A woman named Angela held onto the Dog until it reached the next stop and she could hand it off to a station agent. The Dog was returned to Adams’ roommate.

“She was very shaken up,” Heather Griffin, who was at the Powell station, said. “Everyone was very sad.

“It was a rough evening. Aside from all the commute issues.”

One mother/daughter duo claimed to see Adams get dragged along by her backpack, according to KTVU-TV, but officials who later reviewed the footage said that was not the case.

Another witness, Mike Sim, saw Adams’ last moments and spoke with a distraught man who appeared to be the woman’s boyfriend.

“It was kind of like dut, dut, dut, dut, du,” Sim told KABC-TV. “Everybody was in shock … It was pretty traumatic.”

The accident caused a multitude of delays and the Powell Street station was closed for nearly two hours.

“This is a tragic loss of life, and we are following all Safety protocols,” BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said.

An investigation into the incident is ongoing. The National Transportation Safety Board representatives plan to speak with witnesses and review footage of the incident to see if any improvements to the train system need to be made.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.