By The newspaper
Dec 28, 2023, 3:06 PM EST
Two New York City police officers – one of them Hispanic – helped save a man who had accidentally fallen onto the tracks at a Brooklyn Subway station.
Officers identified only by their last names Garcia and Mohan were conducting an inspection at the Carroll Street station on the F/G lines early Tuesday when they saw a man lose his balance and fall onto the tracks, police said. The heroic rescue was captured on body cameras and reported last night by the NYPD.
“I fell, I must have slipped.”
It was the second dramatic rescue in recent months carried out by these officers, after on October 3 they helped a woman on a bridge in Brooklyn, NYPD highlighted.
On Tuesday, officers ran toward the 55-year-old man, who was standing but couldn’t get back on the platform and was complaining of pain, he said. ABCNews. Footage captured one officer jumping onto the tracks to help him hold on as the second officer pulled the man back to the platform.
The second officer then helped his colleague onto the platform. The entire incident took place in just under a minute, according to the body camera.
“I fell, I must have slipped,” the man is heard saying to the agents in the images. EMS crews transported him to a local hospital with reports of hip and body pain, police said. The officers were not injured in the incident.
In April, five Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) workers were honored after miraculously rescuing a 3-year-old baby unharmed from the Metro-North train tracks.
These cases do not always have a happy ending. In fact, collisions of New York City Subway trains with people on platforms and rails have seen an alarming 25% increase over the past four years, according to MTA data.
In October 2022, a woman was killed by a train at Penn Station and a young man was miraculously rescued after being pushed onto the tracks at the Union Square station of the New York Subway.