Metropolitan Transportation Authority police have confirmed the identity of the man a Long Island Rail Road train struck at the New Hyde Park station Saturday.
A Huntington-bound train hit 23-year-old Robert Reilly just before 11 p.m. Dec. 12, MTA spokesman Sal Arena said. He died Sunday morning.
The train left Penn Station in Manhattan at 10:22 p.m. and was not scheduled to stop in New Hyde Park.
The incident suspended LIRR service on the Huntington-Port Jefferson, Oyster Bay and Ronkonkoma lines for about two hours before it was restored around 2 a.m, Arena said.
Renee Translateur of Syosset said she and other passengers on the full train were stuck in New Hyde Park for about an hour and 45 minutes before another train came.
A friend started praying as soon as she heard someone was hit, Translateur said.
MTA staff told passengers police and first responders were coming to the scene and periodically gave other updates after the train came to a “very abrupt stop,” she said.
“They were pretty forthcoming,” Translateur said. “Like every 10 minutes they would tell us something.”
The accident comes two months after an LIRR train hit and killed a man at the New Hyde Park station Oct. 18.
