Hungry homeless man escapes unscathed after a NYC subway train drives OVER him when he falls on the tracks trying to retrieve a bag of rice, beans and catfish
- A 68-year-old homeless man survived a subway train zooming over top of him after he fell down into the tracks in New York City on Friday night
- The man was trying to retrieve a bag of food that a friend had tossed to him
- The friend was on the opposite platform, and the bag didn't make it across
- When the man went down after it, he lost his footing and got stuck
- As a train came speeding at him he squeezed into the track trough to avoid death
- The incident occurred on the northbound platform of the 1 line at 181st street in the Washington Heights neigborhod of NYC at around 10.30pm on January 4
A New York homeless man miraculously survived a subway training passing over top of him after he got caught on the tracks while trying to retrieve food on Friday night.
The man who has not been identified fell into the tracks after jumping down to get a bag of food that a friend had tried to toss to him from the opposite platform, witnesses told the New York Post.
As a train came down the tracks at the full speed, the man quickly squeezed himself into the trough, and the train whizzed right over him.
The incident occurred on the northbound platform of the 1 line at 181st street in Washington Heights at around 10.30pm on January 4.
The bag of food that the 68-year-old New Yorker was after was stuffed with rice, beans and catfish.
A New York homeless man miraculously survived a subway train passing over top of him after he got caught on the tracks while trying to retrieve food on Friday night. The man is pictured while still stuck in the tracks beneath a 1 train at 181st Street station in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City on Friday
Pedro Cruz, 60, was the person who tried to toss the bag of food to the man who found himself stuck in the tracks.
'He tried to jump down [on the tracks] and get the food. But then boom, he fell,' Cruz said of this friend. 'He fell right behind the food.'
Cruz said he tried to reach his friend before the train came speeding down the tracks.
'I jumped down after him. I couldn’t get him,' Cruz said.
Unable to immediately free his friend, Cruz said he tried to alert the train to stop, but couldn't make it happen.
As a train came down the tracks at the full speed, the man quickly squeezed himself into the trough, and the train whizzed right over him. The man is shown stuck beneath the train
'I said, "Yo! Yo! Yo! Lay down under the train!"' Cruz said, adding, 'He’s lucky because he got in the track underneath the train.'
Several other good Samaritans also swarned to the tracks to try to help.
'We all rushed down there,' James Agyeman, a 23-year-old straphanger, said. 'I was really scared. All of us tried to wave down the conductor, but he was close.'
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Another witness from the Bronx described the look of shock on the person running the train as it passed over the man.
'I saw the conductor’s face and it was all red,' Roy Gomez, 27, said. 'He looked shocked. This s**t is crazy.'
Following several calls to 911, emergency responders arrived on the scene to find the man stuck between the track and the train.
He was able to walk away uninjured after police and firefighters helped him to safety, authorities said.
Officials took the man to Harlem Hospital as a precaution measury, but he is expected to be fine.
Rescue workers are shown helping the man to safety from below the train that passed over him
The man was able to walk away uninjured after police and firefighters helped him to safety
