For New York City's subway operators, the threat of hitting a person with their train looms over every day on the job. “After the 12-9,” a new short documentary, follows operators after their involvements in deadly collisions. Watch here.
Every few days in New York City, a subway operator stops a train, speaks the phrase “12-9” into a radio, and waits what may feel like an eternity for a police officer to arrive and inspect the train and tracks. Operators learn this code during their job training, but many say that the experience is unimaginable until it happens. In the parlance of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 12-9s describe collisions between trains and people. They are the reason that the M.T.A.
“After the 12-9,” a short documentary produced and directed by Sara Joe Wolansky and edited by Brian Redondo, follows three operators in the year after their respective involvements in deadly collisions. “There’s really no way to prepare for them, and there’s absolutely no way to prevent them,” Kristan Webb, an operator who experienced her first 12-9 about five years into her career, says. Webb remembers seeing two dark patches on the running rail and realizing that they were a person’s feet.
Peter T. Lin, a pathologist at the Mayo Clinic who previously worked as a fellow at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, co-authored the most recent study of the city’s subway deaths, which was published in 2009. More than half of the deaths were ruled suicides, his research found, and more than a third were accidents, particularly those that occurred in the early morning, after bars closed. “About once a week, we were seeing a subway-related fatality,” Lin told me.
When Kristan Webb started riding the subway again, she avoided the first car, where the operator sits. She once had a panic attack while walking through Grand Central Terminal. Gradually, her therapist encouraged her to move toward the front of the train, and, after more than a year, Webb decided that she was ready to return to work. “I can do this,” she told herself on her first day back. For the M.T.A.
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