Man in wheelchair rescued after he falls onto train tracks (Video)

Several commuters sprung into action Tuesday and rescued a man in a motorized wheelchair after he fell off a station platform and onto the subway tracks in Washington D.C.

Tech Times noted that the heroics of the commuters, who rushed to the man’s aid, were captured on surveillance video at the U Street-Cardozo station in the northwest area of the city.

In the video, the man can be seen driving right off the platform and falling onto the metro tracks. Immediately after he fell, a group ran to the ledge to check on him and one person jumped down onto the tracks. Another person leaped down to assist in getting the man before a train came into the station. Other people then helped pull him up to safety.

The 54-year-old man suffered a bloody mouth and was transported to a local hospital, but was not seriously injured.

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As the Daily Mail reported, just days prior to the D.C. rescue, 28-year-old Charles Collins saved Alfred McNamee, after he fell onto electrified tracks at a train station in Philadelphia. The elderly McNamee broke his back, several ribs and suffered a spleen injury. Collins suffered a leg injury.

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