A student tourist whose left arm and left leg were severed when she fainted and tumbled in front of a Brooklyn subway train has landed a nearly $82 million jury verdict.
Luisa Janssen Harger Da Silva of Brazil was awarded the massive sum last week in Brooklyn federal court over her rail horror in 2016, when she was 21.
Da Silva was on a platform with her boyfriend when she fainted and fell onto the Atlantic Avenue tracks, where an oncoming train ran her over.
Nearly a decade later, a jury sided with her and her legal team in finding that the MTA failed to take the issue of people falling onto train tracks seriously.
The woman’s suit argued the MTA had 15 years of data showing “that it was a moral certainty that innocent people, such as the plaintiff, would fall onto the tracks if the

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