New York Daily News

Rescued from death on rails

- Larry McShane

BROOKLYN subway riders rescued a straphange­r who collapsed onto the train tracks, flagging down an incoming train before pulling him to safety.

A cell phone video captured the scary scene at the Avenue H station in Flatbush after the unidentifi­ed man fell face-first Thursday into the path of an approachin­g Q train.

A panicked Liliana Vicente, who took the video, screamed at the man to get up after his sudden plunge onto the snowy tracks below.

“Sir, please wake up!” she yells during the clip obtained by WABC-TV. “Sir, please wake up!”

Vicente ran to push an emergency call button before scrambling onto the tracks with two other riders and hoisting the victim out of harm’s way.

Other straphange­rs ran to the end of the platform and screamed at the subway engineer to stop, with the train halting outside the station.

“I thought the train was going over him,” Vicente said afterward. “I was so scared. And I started crying. I think there are still kind people here in this world.”

The man was reportedly in serious condition at Kings County Hospital.

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