There’s a very lucky woman in Boston today, and it’s all thanks to the alert eyes of Charice Lewis. The subway conductor for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) was pulling into the station when she saw frantic waving from the platform. That’s when she saw the face pop up in front of her window. An intoxicated woman had fallen onto the tracks. Charice pulls the emergency brake, and somehow, against all odds, the train stops in time to avoid turning the drunk woman into a red stain.
It’s about as close as you can get to death while escaping unscathed, and it was all caught on surveillance cameras.
That train was literally feet from crushing this woman, and if Ms. Lewis had delayed for a few more seconds to figure out why she was being waved at from the platform, the fallen woman becomes a decorative placemat. Talk about your last-second reprieves, huh? Remind me to stay well away from the edge of the platform the next time I take a subway trip anywhere.
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