This is just awful in every way. A blind 75-year-old newsstand operator was killed at Croton-Harmon station this morning after falling onto the trucks and getting hit by an Amtrak.

Therese Fiorentino had stepped onto the platform for a smoke and then fell onto the tracks, where she was struck by a southbound train at 8:31.

Fiorentino ran the newsstand/coffee cart at Croton-Harmon, pictured below, with her daughter.

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Jeff28 writes into the Journal News:

I was on the southbound Metro-North train that was supposed to leave at 8:34. I was already sitting in the train when suddenly I heard all the commotion. At first I thought it was a few girls playing around but the sudden screaming got much louder and intense. It was then that I realized something really serious happened, and when I looked at the Amtrack pulling in, I feared the worst and knew it to be the worst case scenario.

[photo: Rob Ryser, Journal News]