A grandfather in Northern Virginia died Wednesday after his dog leash became caught in a closing Metro door and he was dragged onto the tracks, police say.
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died Wednesday after his dog leash became caught in a closing Metro door and he was dragged onto the tracks. Harold Riley, 50, died of his injuries in the hospital after he and his dog became separated on either side of a closed Metro transit door as the train departed the station. Riley's dog leash was tied to him at the time, and he was unable to get free.He was exiting the train Wednesday, but his dog, Daisy, remained inside the train car as the door closed.
"It’s a little bit frightening that that could happen, and that there aren’t some sort of safeguards in place to prevent that from happening to anybody else,"
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