Thursday morning rush hour in Manhattan stroller with 8-month old baby, having descended from the platform, fell onto the railway tracks. But the father instantly reacted, jumped on the tracks and pulled the baby.
The incident occurred at about 9:20 at the station on 72nd street and Broadway on the Upper West side. On the platform stood a family of 4 – mom, dad and two children. Suddenly the stroller with the youngest child began to move.
«The carriage rolled away, and the child fell on the rails,» said one of the employees of the station who witnessed the journalists of the New York Post — But the men immediately pulled the baby from the rails. The child didn’t suffer».
The police said that the stroller suddenly started to move due to the faulty latch. The driver of the train No. 2 which was also a witness, said he saw two people jumped onto the tracks. One grabbed something like a car seat with child in it, and the other took the stroller. Then both jumped back onto the platform.
Surprisingly, the baby only received a small bump on the back of the head. Just in case she was taken to Lennox Hill Hospital.
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Other employee of the MTA said that the shock of the situation could end in tragedy.
«Trains come to the station every three minutes, they are very lucky,» he said.
The MTA say that at that time the area was not a single train, largely thanks to the subway employees.
The operator saw on the way fell the stroller immediately reported to the control Center of railway transportation, which called the police and informed about the situation other drivers.
«We are very pleased that this incident was quickly resolved without any serious injuries, we are proud of our attentive staff from the driver to the commands in the control Center the Railways,» said Andy Byford, the head of the New York City Transit.
Family is really very lucky, February 19, male, caught on a passing train bag and fell on the railway track, he died on the spot.
