As I breifly mentioned in the Unplanned service changes thread on Friday, I was on a train that carried out a 12-9. The experience gave me a few questions that I would like to pose.
1) I was quickly discharged from the train which was great. I remember having boarded an 
10 minutes or so after the collision occured. Then again only 3 cars pulled into the station and I was on one of those three. For passengers who were still in the tunnel what would the discharge process have been like?
2) The train made very little effort to slow down on the approach into 59th Street. Is this more likely because the T/O was distracted by his console and didn't see someone on the tracks until it was too late or that the person involved jumped onto the tracks in a suicide attempt and timed it perfectly giving the T/O no warning?
3) News articles that have been released so far about the incident give no details beyond the obvious 'man killed by subway train'. Not even a simple age or name was mentioned. Given the time and place of the incident (59th/Lex at 4:15 pm on a Friday) and the high number of passengers that witnessed it the lack of available information is quite strange. At least one of the riders could have told authorities the story as to how the man fell on the tracks (There was only a 2 minute gap in between the train ahead as I saw it leave Grand Central before getting on the 
, so he couldn't have been there long.). The waiting passengers' screams are what gave away the situation to us riders inside the train, for crying out loud. Does this strange lack of information provide a hint as to how the story played out?
4) To add to that it seems as if the waiting passengers that witnessed the incident failed to give a shit after the collision occured. Most of them were no longer on the platform when I got off the train and there was very little chaos and crying after the intial shrieks and screams. I would have thought that passengers would be circling every which way around the platform in shock and tears. Also none of them were near the platform edge at a station nortorious for passengers standing close to the edge. Is it strange for passengers to return to normal so quickly after witnessing someone hit by a train?