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by Sean Gardiner and Brian Boyd
A man who fell onto the tracks after experiencing a seizure suffered only minor cuts and bruises after four cars of a subway train passed above him in Queens Friday.
Brian Jemmotte, 38, pitched forward onto the elevated tracks as a No. 7 train pulled into the 69th Street station in Woodside at 7:35 a.m. Friday, police said.
The train conductor later told police he initially thought Jemmotte's motionless body was a pile of clothes. As the train entered the station, people on the platform screamed at the conductor to stop and motioned that there was a person on the tracks.
The conductor applied the brakes but the train's momentum prevented it from coming to a stop before four cars had passed over him, police said.
Firefighters responded and found Jemmotte conscious. They removed him from beneath the subway, police said.
Jemmotte, who has a history of seizures, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he was treated and released.
His sister, Donna Jemmotte, 49, said she's heard many stories of people being killed by trains under similar circumstances. "We're just flabbergasted," she said.
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