Young Man and Woman Seen Sitting on NYC Subway Tracks Moments Before Fatal Train Incident

The young woman and man are seen on the tracks as a subway barrels towards them.

A 24-year-old man and woman were captured on video sitting on subway tracks in Lower Manhattan shortly before they were struck by an approaching train early Sunday, according to law-enforcement sources.

The disturbing footage, recorded near the Spring Street station, shows the pair sitting on the rails and facing in the direction of an approaching train. Authorities are now trying to determine why they were on the tracks in the first place.

The man, from Sayreville, New Jersey, and the woman, from Dayton, New York, were both 24. Their identities were being withheld pending notification of their families.

Video captures their final moments on the tracks

NYPD cops are later seen at the scene, with one of the bodies covered on the platform at the station, which appears to have been shut down after the incident.

The incident unfolded shortly before 3:15 a.m., when a southbound No. 4 train entered the area near Spring Street.

Video from before the incident shows the pair apparently sitting calmly on the tracks as the train approaches.

Both were struck and died at the scene, according to law-enforcement sources.

There was no indication that either person had been pushed onto the tracks or had accidentally fallen from the platform.

Investigators were looking into whether alcohol may have played a role before the incident, sources said. However, authorities had not established why the pair entered or remained on the tracks.

Police were later seen inside the station as investigators responded and the area appeared to be temporarily closed.

Investigators search for answers

Both died at the scene after they were struck.

The circumstances leading up to the tragedy remain unclear.

While investigators are examining whether the two may have been drinking beforehand, no definitive explanation for their actions had been released.

That unanswered question is particularly significant because the footage reportedly shows both individuals already on the rails before the train arrived, rather than being pushed or falling onto them.

Authorities had not publicly disclosed further details about their relationship or what they had been doing in the hours before the incident.

Incident follows another fatality on NYC subway tracks

The tragedy occurred a little more than a week after an MTA worker was struck by a train while working on subway tracks.

Moet McCullum, a 41-year-old construction flagger and mother of three, was working near the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium station shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 3 when she was struck by an arriving D train, according to the MTA.

Subway flaggers are responsible for alerting train operators to active work zones.

Other dangerous incidents involving subway tracks have also occurred in recent months.

In July, a 70-year-old woman was pushed onto the tracks at the 57th Street and Seventh Avenue station in Manhattan before bystanders rushed to help her.

A month earlier, nurse Josue Romano, 47, said he was pushed from behind into the side of an incoming train in the Bronx. He survived the incident.

For the two 24-year-olds at Spring Street, however, investigators are now left trying to reconstruct the events that preceded their final moments.

The video establishes that they were sitting on the tracks as the train approached — but the reason they were there, and what happened before the camera began recording, remained unanswered.