 The relative merits of automobiles versus mass transit are frequently debated by New Yorkers, but rarely do the two modes of transport become physically opposed to each other, as they did yesterday in Brooklyn. Service on the N line was suspended for a few hours early yesterday morning, after a car jumped the curb at 63rd St. near the New Utrecht Ave. subway station, traversed the sidewalk, crashed through a chain link fence, and fell 30 feet to the below-grade but open subway tracks. The car landed upside down and burst into flames.
The driver actually survived the crash and was listed as in stable condition at Lutheran Medical Center. Service between 36th St. and Coney Island/Stillwell Ave. was halted for a few hours on the N line, but restored by 8:30 a.m. Saturday. No cars were near the scene of the accident at the time it occurred and New York City Transit reports that there was no damage to the tracks themselves. 
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