"When the carriages hit those grout joints," Mr. D'Antuono said.
"The driver of the police car swerved to avoid hitting the baby carriage, and hit two pedestrians," a police spokesman said.
She suffered cracked ribs, a cracked pelvis and bruising after she was flung across the carriage and hit between the chest and the thighs by a piece of the train, which pinned her to the ground.
During a demo, we see one section in which a train carriage is hit by a missile, blasting it off a cliff edge into a chasm – with several soldiers inside.
But, later that year, Theo's baby carriage was hit by a New York cab, his skull was crushed, and he needed to go through years of treatment, during which Dahl helped to design a valve to drain fluid from Theo's brain.
Then he fed blank sheets of paper into the platens, returned the carriages, and hit the tab buttons for the proper indentations, ready for a new paragraph, ready for the next day.
Michael Cunningham's latest novel, "By Nightfall," begins with an animal sacrifice: a horse pulling a tourist carriage has been hit by a car on Broadway.
The irony was that the ones who did manage to escape the carriage then got hit with bottles and other bits and pieces as they went from one carriage to another.
"Hard pressed commuters on overcrowded carriages have been hit with fare rises of up to 33% since 2010 and no end is in sight for the antiquated Pacer trains that David Cameron promised to replace.
His baby son, Theo, was badly injured when a car hit the carriage his nanny was pushing across a street in Manhattan.
