The subway motorman helming the Q train that fatally hit a Queens dad was so traumatized after the horrific tragedy that he was rushed to the hospital.
Terrence Legree, a 20-year MTA employee who coaches high-school baseball in his off hours, had trouble speaking after the train he was operating crushed Korean immigrant Ki Suk Han, who was pushed down to the tracks.
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Legree “was getting all choked up in his voice as people were asking him what happened,” said James Brisbon, the subway conductor who was working with the motorman.
“He was shaken up.”
Neighbors described the married Brooklyn father of a teen boy as a kind man who enjoys spending time with kids.
“There’s nothing negative you can say about him,” said Samantha Joseph, 28, of Legree, who coaches baseball at Bishop Ford HS. “What he saw must have been nightmarish.”
Doris Brown, 45, said, “He’s a wonderful guy . . . Even though it’s not his fault, he is probably blaming himself. It would traumatize me, too.”