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Maryland Appellate Court revived a lawsuit over a MARC train platform injury.

The court ruled the plaintiff may not have voluntarily assumed the risk of injury.

Judges found she was unaware of available accommodations for safe exiting.

The case returns to Baltimore City Circuit Court for further proceedings.

The Maryland Appellate Court earlier this month sided with a woman who broke her ankle getting off a MARC train, ruling that the trial court erred in saying she had voluntarily assumed the risk of injury.

On her commute home from work one day in June 2019, Sabrina Benjamin got off of the MARC at its stop in Laurel and fell through a 15-inch-wide gap between the train and the platform, shattering her ankle.

Shortly before the end of the statute of limitations, s

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