A viral video buzzing around the Internet shows strangers coming together to free an Australian man who fell into the gap between a train and the platform this morning.
The man slipped as he was boarding the stopped train. One leg was being crushed in the five-centimeter gap while the other lay by the train door.
Transperth spokesman David Hynes told ABC the man who slipped attempted to board the car at the end of peak hour, but the train was still pretty busy.
Strangers came together to save the man, one informing the driver not to move the train to avoid crushing him.
Amid the chaos of the event, a bystander suggested tilting the train to free the man's leg. Within seconds crowds of passangers lined down the platform. Upon the second push, the train tilted enough for the man's leg to be freed.
Passenger Nicholas Taylor, who helped push the train, told Perth Now that the staff appropriately took control of the situation.
The time between the man's fall and rescue took only 10 minutes.
"The man was freed safely and we handed him over to emergency services. We understand he was not badly injured because he stayed at the station and boarded a later train to the city," Hynes told Perth Now.
Taylor told Washington Today that the incident is making him rethink the "mind the gap" warning.
"It's not something you sort of think about or really take seriously," Taylor told Washington Today. "I always thought it was a bit of a joke but now, yeah, you kind of do."
The Stirling Station train was only delayed 15 minutes from the accident.
