Three subway passengers in Boston saved a man who fell onto tracks on Wednesday evening, the Boston Herald reported.
In the surveillance footage at North Station, the 33-year-old Malden man appeared to walk off the Orange Line platform and fall directly into the tracks. Passengers immediately noticed the man's fall and within 20 seconds, people jumped down to rescue him.
"Within in a couple of minutes of falling onto the tracks, the man was helped out by some customers," said Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) spokesman Joe Pesaturo.
While three men leaped into the tracks from the platform the man fell off of, a fourth man crossed tracks from another platform to assist the rescue.
Other passengers ran to locate MBTA authorities and notify them of the incident.
"Shortly after 9 p.m., a customer approached an MBTA employee in the North Station mezzanine to report that someone was on the tracks downstairs," Pesaturo said. "The employee notified the Orange Line dispatcher who immediately directed trains in the vicinity to stop."
The man told a police officer he had two drinks earlier in the night to celebrate passing the medical boards and did not remember falling on to the tracks. After he was rescued, he was alert and conscious.
Pesaturo added the man was not in danger of a train at the moment, but also noted that there was no way to know when the next one was coming.
He sustained a minor head injury and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital.
Earlier this month, MBTA authorities created a new safety campaign telling subway riders to wait for their trains behind a "yellow tactile warning strip" to avoid accidents like this, Pesaturo said.
