A teenager wearing a shower cap allegedly took a New York subway train for a joyride before crashing it. The 17-year-old girl is suspected of being one of two people who commandeered the empty train from Briarwood subway station in Queens in the early hours of Sept 12.

The NYPD is asking the public to assist them in finding the two suspects who took an unoccupied subway car on a joyride last week. The pair fled the scene after the train crashed.

Police are looking for a man and woman who took an empty New York City subway train on a brief joyride before they crashed it and fled.

Two people tried to operate an unoccupied train at a Queens subway station and ended up crashing it, police said.

New York police have arrested two teenagers they suspect of joyriding and crashing an empty subway train. A girl and boy, both aged 17, are charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment. They are accused of entering and operating the train,