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Kate 20:19 on 2019-10-31 Permalink Reply  

• jeather 21:51 on 2019-10-31 Permalink

  I was in the metro car that hit the person. It was in the westbound green line at Lionel-Groulx, happened at about 4. They turned off the electricity, the front car was about halfway through the station. None of the people waiting looked disturbed, so I don’t think they knew what happened, but it was obvious from inside the train. First they cleared out the platform, then someone in the car had a panic attack and they then let us out, maybe ten minutes in. I don’t know what happened with the people still in the tunnel, but they were clearing everyone out and when I got outside the first ambulance was just arriving. They also used coffee 904, which I googled. There were people in bloody costumes milling about, it was surreal.

• Kate 21:58 on 2019-10-31 Permalink

  jeather, I’m assuming you mean Code 904, “Tentative de mort violente (suicide)”?

  Were the bloody costumes rescuers, or Halloween folks?

• jeather 22:04 on 2019-10-31 Permalink

  Yes, code, not coffee! Weird autocorrect there.

  Costumes. Lots and lots of costumes.

  I didn’t see anything at all, just felt the thud. And I don’t think there was much to see, I was at the door so I was looking at the platform the entire time and everyone just looked annoyed that the metro was seeping and not upset about anything serious. I did look back at the tracks when I was going to the escalator but didn’t see anything, thankfully, because I know I would have regretted it.

• Johnny 23:44 on 2019-10-31 Permalink

  I was one of the witnesses waiting for the metro. At the end of the day it just built in a trauma in me, I legit get scared of the metro and i want to avoid the metro now becuase of what i witnessed, a girl basically jumped in front of the train and suicided. Everyone waiting for the angrignon train were all in shock sobbing and crying, same goes for me, i have never actually seen such thing before and i tell you this is so fcking sad it got my day upside down and i don’t know how to feel anymore the metro now feels eerie, especially Lionel Groulx.
  I saw people in the train looking so confused like what’s happening and everything, the train operator ended up having a nervous shock and got sent to the hospital. It’s wrong to say thing but the suicidal victim is really selfish to have done it in public. It gave us witnesses and train operator trauma and pain. Seeing someone going in for a jump as i’m meters away wanting to just rush and prevent it to happen is really really hurtful.
  I really wanted to take the nightbus and not the metro but I had to go home to finish all my homeworks and projects for tomorrow so i forced myself. Trully traumatizing. Legit my heart feels really eerie and tight whenever i hear the metro coming, the sound of the impact of the body hitting the front train is registered 100% clearly in my mind and i seriously can’t.

• Kate 07:54 on 2019-11-01 Permalink

  Johnny, I’m sorry you had to be there for that, and please don’t feel that anything you’ve said is wrong. You’re in emotional shock from this experience and I think you should talk to someone about it right away. Please google for crisis lines in Montreal and call in, or at the very least, call 811 and explain what happened and that you need to talk. Even try the suicide lines – I know you’re not suicidal, but they are trained to help with the aftereffects of suicide as well.

  https://suicideactionmontreal.org

  The West Island crisis line is most likely to have anglophone support if you want to be certain of that, or at least to be able to direct you to a source of support:

  http://www.centredecriseoi.com

• walkerp 10:05 on 2019-11-01 Permalink

  Johnny, that’s brutal. Take some time and take care of yourself as Kate suggests.

• CE 11:01 on 2019-11-01 Permalink

  The orange line was also slowed down yesterday which the announcements said was due to the emergency break being pulled. The train would stop at a station for about 10 minutes, then do it again at the next. After a while it got going buy my girlfriend said it was still slow an hour later when she was coming home from work. I figured something bad had happened on the green line as the announcements were saying it wouldn’t be running again for another hour.

• Kate 11:40 on 2019-11-01 Permalink

  CE, they were not allowing orange line trains to stop at L-G for awhile, which bogged Berri‑UQÀM down with people transferring, and this also had a domino effect of delaying the rest of the system.

• Johanne 17:50 on 2019-11-03 Permalink

  I hear you Johnny, it’s been 3 days and I still hear the impact of the body. Not looking forward of the taking the metro this week.

• Alex 21:22 on 2019-12-30 Permalink

  That was my friend

• Kate 22:57 on 2019-12-30 Permalink

  Alex, I am sorry.

• Paws 18:48 on 2021-12-03 Permalink

  I was also there that day. I hadn’t seen it, but I heard it. I thought a bomb went off at first until I looked up and saw everyone’s faces and knew. t’s 2021 and I still can’t get on the metro without thinking about it. I come back to this thread sometimes to reread what other people who were there say because it helps when I’m on the metro I often wonder if anyone else on the same train as me was there and is also struggling to be alright while remembering it. I hope if anyone still comes to this thread like I do that they’re okay.

• EmilyG 22:47 on 2021-12-03 Permalink

  I wasn’t there, but I think about this thread sometimes.

  Thank you for sharing, Paws.