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By PAUL FEELY
Union Leader of New Hampshire
September 20, 2018 9:17 pm
A New Hampshire man was killed Wednesday night less than an hour after watching the Boston Red Sox lose to the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, after officials said they climbed to the top of a Connecticut train , where electric wires electrified.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said that Michael Vigeant, 24, of Hudson, was killed around 11:30 pm. Wednesday, when he and his brother, both wearing Red Sox gear, got off a train on the MTA's New Haven Line. According to the authorities, Vigeant reached the top of the wagon, where he came into contact with an electrified wire – which carries 16,000 volts of electricity – between Larchmont and Mamaroneck in Westchester County.
The first responders who were passengers on the train practiced CPR on Vigeant, who was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
Bob Fredericks, senior editor at the New York Post, was a passenger on the train.
"The train stopped and after a while, the orchestra conductor seemed very nervous, asking if there were any doctors or nurses on board," Fredericks said at the time. 39, a telephone interview with a New Hampshire Union Leader reporter. "A woman who said she was a nurse went past me. She left for about 40 minutes then came back shaken, saying that a man had climbed to the top of the train and had been electrocuted.
Michael Pellicci, a resident of Stamford, Connecticut, told the Mamaroneck Daily Voice he saw the entire accident, saying that Vigeant and his brother had jumped more than once on the train.
"We saw them and we wondered how they got from one end to the other of the train so quickly," Pellicci told the Daily Voice. "It was at that point that the conductor understood what they were doing and stopped the older brother to tell him how stupid he was."
Pellicci said that a few moments later, there was a "thud and a spark of light" and he saw the man's body fall between the cars towards the rear of the train.
"You could see his body folded in half and a black arm," Pellicci told the Daily Voice. "It was horrible."
After Vigeant hit the wire, the train stopped due to a power problem, said MTA officials. Crew members found it after being in contact with the catenary cables, officials said the MTA. The MTA police investigation.
New Haven Line trains were delayed from 30 to 55 minutes until around 3:20 pm, officials said. While MTA officials stated that the passengers remained on the stopped train for about 45 minutes before being transferred to another train, several passengers claiming to be on board tweeted to be stranded for more than two hours before to Connecticut. These passengers also complained of hot and humid conditions in the train, some people asking MTA to open the doors to let in fresh air.
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