Wow: Surveillance Footage Shows Subway Riders Rescuing Drunken Man Who Fell on Tracks

Things could have ended poorly for a newly-minted doctor Wednesday night when he drunkenly fell onto the subway tracks in Boston. But they didn’t, thanks to a handful of strangers.

MBTA surveillance footage shows the unnamed 33-year-old medical student walking right off the edge of the platform and falling headfirst onto the tracks. Horrified onlookers rushed to save the motionless doctor, calling for him to get up, and eventually jumping down into the pit to carry him off.

Two men jumped down to pick him up. An additional man even darted from the opposite side of the station, carefully hopping over the electrified third rail, to help carry the man onto the platform several feet above the tracks.

Before arriving at Boston’s North Station, the student apparently had a few drinks to celebrate passing his medical board exams. “The man stated he had two drinks to celebrate passing the medical boards and was waiting for the train home, but does not remember anything else,” the police report states.

As it turns out, another subway rider had the quick decision to notify an MBTA employee who, in turn, alerted the train dispatchers to halt. And so, unbeknownst to the men who rescued the young doctor, they were not actually at risk of being struck by a train.

Watch the video below, via Boston.com:

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