"I knew I wasn't dead," subway slip survivor says
by JOSHUA RHETT MILLER
(as seen in Metro)
MANHATTAN — Daniel Silverio, the man run over by a Brooklyn-bound 2 train last week, knew he was alive when he saw blood.
“Considering the last thing I saw was a train coming at me — then complete darkness — my first instinct was I thought I was dead,” Silverio said yesterday from his bed at Bellevue Medical Center. “I was hoping the afterlife would be clean and bright, but I knew I wasn’t dead when I was covered in dirt and blood.”
Silverio, a 29-year-old trader at TD Ameritrade, fell between the rails during last Thursday’s rush hour at the Wall Street station. He was pulled from under the first and second cars of the train, suffering a fractured hip and a fractured vertebrae in his neck.
“I knew it was a No. 2 train because they’re new, and they have a lot of space underneath,” Silverio said. “I’m a subway buff, so I knew I was OK because I wasn’t near the third rail.”
After crashing onto the tracks, Silverio said he briefly lost consciousness. Silverio said the next sound he heard was the best possible kind.
“I heard [emergency responders] say, ‘Don’t move, don’t move,’” Silverio said. “As I looked up, someone said, ‘This is the luckiest son of a bitch ever.’”
Silverio, who said he doesn’t remember how he fell onto the tracks from the Wall Street station platform, replayed the incident with his wife, Jennifer, and a family friend yesterday. He is expected to be transferred today to the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, where he’ll undergo physical therapy. He expects to wear a neck brace for the next 10 weeks.
“It’s like learning how to walk all over again,” Silverio said. “I’m doing all right, but obviously it will be a long road to recovery. I look a lot better though. ... Just a couple of inches or a few seconds could have been the difference from seeing me in the hospital or planning my funeral.”
Silverio’s wife, who met the self-proclaimed “subway buff” when they attended Pace University, also took a light-hearted view of the near tragedy.
“My first instinct was this was some type of sick joke,” she said of getting the call that Daniel had been injured. “You know, this is New York after all.”
As a schoolboy, Jennifer said, recalling a favorite story of Daniel’s grandmother, Daniel once drew the entire New York City subway map by hand. Little did he know all that attention to detail would save his life two decades later.
Asked if he plans to ride the rails again into Manhattan from Brooklyn, Silverio took off the same glasses he wore at the time of the accident and smiled.
“Like my rehab,” he said. “I’ll take it one day at a time.”
-For more Metro news, go to http://ny.metro.us.
(as seen in Metro)
MANHATTAN — Daniel Silverio, the man run over by a Brooklyn-bound 2 train last week, knew he was alive when he saw blood.
“Considering the last thing I saw was a train coming at me — then complete darkness — my first instinct was I thought I was dead,” Silverio said yesterday from his bed at Bellevue Medical Center. “I was hoping the afterlife would be clean and bright, but I knew I wasn’t dead when I was covered in dirt and blood.”
Silverio, a 29-year-old trader at TD Ameritrade, fell between the rails during last Thursday’s rush hour at the Wall Street station. He was pulled from under the first and second cars of the train, suffering a fractured hip and a fractured vertebrae in his neck.
“I knew it was a No. 2 train because they’re new, and they have a lot of space underneath,” Silverio said. “I’m a subway buff, so I knew I was OK because I wasn’t near the third rail.”
After crashing onto the tracks, Silverio said he briefly lost consciousness. Silverio said the next sound he heard was the best possible kind.
“I heard [emergency responders] say, ‘Don’t move, don’t move,’” Silverio said. “As I looked up, someone said, ‘This is the luckiest son of a bitch ever.’”
Silverio, who said he doesn’t remember how he fell onto the tracks from the Wall Street station platform, replayed the incident with his wife, Jennifer, and a family friend yesterday. He is expected to be transferred today to the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, where he’ll undergo physical therapy. He expects to wear a neck brace for the next 10 weeks.
“It’s like learning how to walk all over again,” Silverio said. “I’m doing all right, but obviously it will be a long road to recovery. I look a lot better though. ... Just a couple of inches or a few seconds could have been the difference from seeing me in the hospital or planning my funeral.”
Silverio’s wife, who met the self-proclaimed “subway buff” when they attended Pace University, also took a light-hearted view of the near tragedy.
“My first instinct was this was some type of sick joke,” she said of getting the call that Daniel had been injured. “You know, this is New York after all.”
As a schoolboy, Jennifer said, recalling a favorite story of Daniel’s grandmother, Daniel once drew the entire New York City subway map by hand. Little did he know all that attention to detail would save his life two decades later.
Asked if he plans to ride the rails again into Manhattan from Brooklyn, Silverio took off the same glasses he wore at the time of the accident and smiled.
“Like my rehab,” he said. “I’ll take it one day at a time.”
-For more Metro news, go to http://ny.metro.us.
posted by Joshua Rhett Miller at 9:45 AM
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I couldn't get through fox news to get a comment to you about your education piece, so I found this alternative. The piece you wrote about was in regard to a no fail procedure.
I am a public school teacher, and I am so sick to death of how low our educational standards can go. They are high in some areas, but in the case of your article, they have hit rock bottom. The idiots who have adopted this idea do not care one bit about their students. NOT ONE!! They do not care about the success of the students they teach. I am fed up with the idea that does not want children to feel any expectations. If those students don't do what is expected of them, then they get a free ride. This is the antithesis of a caring educator. You can not create successful students by allowing them to do nothing, fail, and then try to bail them out! Congratulations, President Obama! You are generating a line of dependent people who can not take care of themselves and will need to be dependent on the care of the "government." I think they used to call that serfdom!!! After all, isn't this what the liberals are all about? Obama and friends are at the top of the food chain and do not have to fall under the same no value system as those who are encouraged to fail. These stupid people who profess to be educators are encouraging FAILURE! That is the principal in which the dark ages were based. There is no love or concern for those who are not taught to care about themselves and reach for the stars.
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