Heroic Rescue: US transit employee saves man who fell on rail track

Bay Area Rapid Transit employee rescued a man who had fallen onto rail tracks just before a train was about to hit him. BART transportation supervisor John O'Connor pulled the passenger onto the platform at the Coliseum station in Oakland. He said, “I saw him. I saw the headlights of the train. Didn't think he was going to make it. So I've got to do something. There wasn't a lot of time to think. In my mind it all went down in slow-motion. I just grabbed him and pulled him out.”

 
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