Samuel L Jackson got 'dragged by subway train' in freak accident

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Samuel L Jackson got 'dragged by subway train' in freak accident.

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00:00I got dragged by a subway train in New York, right, in 1990, I think, and got dragged by the A train.

00:09Wow.

00:09Fortunately, I was in the last door.

00:12I mean, I was in the middle door of the last car, and it was a long-ass train station.

00:16And when the door closed on my foot, train took off.

00:21So I'm sitting there thinking, oh, fuck, I'm going to die because I could see the tunnel coming,

00:27and I couldn't figure out anything that I could grab or hold on to and get close to the train so I wouldn't get killed in the tunnel.

00:36So it just slowed down really, really slow until all of a sudden the train stopped.

00:44And I didn't find out for two years what had happened because when I moved to California and come back to New York because I sued the transit system, whatever.

00:54And when I got to court, I found out that the reason it took – I was a car and a half from the tunnel when it stopped.

01:02And the guy who pulled the emergency cord was on crutches.

01:07Everybody else in there was trying to open the door, get my foot out of the door, push and pull, and take my shoe off.

01:12And he was going to the emergency cord, and he finally pulled it and stopped it.

01:17But, you know, things slow down when you're looking at death, you know.

01:21Or I've seen – you know, I've been in car accidents, and, you know, if I see them, it's almost like everything is slowing down,

01:27and you know there's nothing you can do to get out of the way.

01:31So, you know, I'm going to get out of the way.

01:32So, you know, I'm going to get out of the way.

01:33So, you know, I'm going to get out of the way.

01:34So, you know, I'm going to get out of the way.

01:35So, you know, I'm going to get out of the way.

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