The man's family, who settled on the red line with MBTA for $ 5 million

The MBTA recently enclosed a lawsuit with the family of a man who was drawn to death when his arm was caught in the doors of a red line. According to court documents, the family of Robinson Lalin receives 5 million US dollars.

Lalin died on April 10, 2022. Around 12:30 p.m. in the Broadway station when he tried to leave a red line of line, the doors banged on his upper body and arm. Witnesses described how he ran Lalin along the train when he came out of the train station. He desperately hit the train side and screamed the operator to attract her attention without success.

The train did not stop and Lalin collided with a wall at the end of the platform. The police found his body 75 feet in the tunnel. His hand was separated. Lalin was 39.

Lalin's family sued the MBTA about a year later.

“Before his death and while he was caught and dragged through the MBTA train and dragged to death, Mr. Lalin's body was damaged and dismembered, and he had great pain on the body and the fear that led to his conscious pain and suffering before his death,” wrote his family in her initial complaint when submitting the lawsuit.

An MBTA spokesman rejected a statement. A lawyer who represented Lalin's family members, Robert Norton, did not answer a request for a comment on Tuesday.

An examination of the National Transportation Safety Board showed that the doors were disturbed due to a short circuit. A security mechanism that is intended to prevent the train from moving while the doors remained open did not work as intended due to the short circuit.

The investigators also said that a camera monitor used by the train operator had a 19-foot blind spot that prevented it from seeing where Lalin was in the doors. They also found that the operator MBTA security protocols did not obey by pulling her head back into the train and ending her visual inspection of the platform before the pilot lights switched off over the doors.

These results were part of a far -reaching and almost unprecedented inspection of the MBTA, which the NTSB carried out in response to several safety errors. The Federal Authority found that the MBTTA excessively prioritized long -term capital projects to the disadvantage of regular business activities. The MBTA had problems to analyze the security information properly, there was no important communication channels and suffered from bad staff, which NTSB determined in 2022.

The car that was involved in the accident belonged to 68 Red Line cars, which debuted in 1969 and were to be replaced until 1994. Delays from a Chinese company, however, recorded the construction of new Red Line cars in Springfield that the replacement date was repeatedly postponed. Some new red line cars are now in operation, but many older models remain.

After Robinson Lalin died, his nephew Kelvin took a photo of Robinson around his neck and was sitting in the Broadway station with a sign with the inscription “The MBTA slaughtered my uncle 4/10/22 security for winnings !!!”.

Kelvin and one of the two children of Lalin, Christopher, were mentioned in the lawsuit as representative of Robinson Lalin's estate. According to court files, the settlement is divided between Christopher, Kelvin and Robinson's teenage daughter.