NORWALK, Conn. (AP) – Transit police and Metro North officials disputed a woman’s claims that train doors closed on her as she boarded a commuter train, which dragged her 500 feet from the station.

Instead, they say Simone Medina ran along a moving train and pried open the doors enough to wedge her foot between them. Medina, 20, suffered cuts and bruises on her arms and legs when the train dragged her.

Medina told investigators that as she followed a friend on to the train Tuesday, the door closed on her arm and leg.

Her account was supported by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority police report, in which a security guard reported seeing Medina being dragged by the train. The guard said he banged on the windows for the train to stop. It did, then restarted with her still caught between the doors, the guard said.

But in supplemental reports obtained by The Advocate of Stamford, witnesses tell a different story. They say Medina ran along the train until it stopped, then began prying at the door. She managed to get her foot in the door before the train started again, they said.

Sensors on Metro-North’s train doors will not allow them to close on an arm or a leg, Brucker said, but they can be open less than four inches without alerting conductors.

“When she stuck her toe in the door, it still wouldn’t set anything off because the doors were not wrenched open,” Brucker said.

Medina is standing by her story, her lawyer Griffith Trow, said.

“Accidents like this do not happen if people do their jobs and if equipment functions properly,” Trow said.

Trow said the different accounts show that Metro-North was “circling the wagons.”

Metro North and the MTA are investigating the incident. A final report has not been issued.