The New York City Police Department has released body camera footage of the moment two transit officers and a straphanger rushed to rescue a man who had fallen onto the subway tracks and hit his head.
The dramatic incident occurred around 7:20 a.m. Sunday at the 181st Street subway station in Washington Heights, in northern Manhattan.
The video, posted to X by the NYPD on Thursday, shows two transit officers running down the stairs from the mezzanine to the railroad tracks where the injured person was lying.
The New York City Police Department has released body camera footage of the moment two transit officers and a straphanger rushed to rescue a man who had fallen onto the subway tracks and hit his head. (New York City Police Department)
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One of the traffic officers jumps onto the tracks with another strap to rescue the man, while the other police officer heads to another strap on the platform to wave at the train coming into the station. He kept shouting instructions.
Traffic police and straphangers are then seen lifting the injured man and carefully carrying him across the railway tracks.
They then hand him over to police on the platform, who drag him back to safety.
As the injured man groans in pain and touches his head, the traffic policeman says: “Stay here, stay here.”
NYPD badge for police officers. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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The man was sent to Harlem Hospital for evaluation, Fox 5 New York reported.
It is unclear what caused the man to fall onto the tracks in the first place or how long he lay on the tracks before traffic police arrived.
There were 1,267 reported track break-ins in 2021, up from 1,062 in 2019 and 1,094 in 2020, the city reported, citing MTA figures. Of the incidents reported in 2021, 68 were fatal.
Rescue screenshot. One of the traffic officers jumps onto the tracks with another strap to rescue the man, while the other officer runs towards another strap on the platform and tries to catch a train coming into the station. I kept shouting instructions to shake it. (New York City Police Department)
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In 2022, there were 1,365 known accidents on subway tracks, and the death toll jumped to 88.
People end up on railroad tracks for a variety of reasons, including trips, falls, suicide, and subway surfing. There, adrenaline junkies climb on top of trains and ride on top of vehicles.
Many New York City subways do not have platform doors to prevent people from falling onto the tracks.
