On the evening of July 30, 1979, at 9:30 P.M., plaintiff John Johnson was standing at Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue in The Bronx, beneath the elevated tracks, waiting to hail a taxicab. As a train overhead was pulling out of the station, Johnson heard a clinking sound, like an object hitting the ground, at which time he lost consciousness and slumped to the pavement.
Two disinterested witnesses, who were in a automobile waiting for a traffic light to change,...
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