Subway Super Hero
An incredibly tale of a harrowing rescue given by one stranger to another on a NYC subway platform. A man (who had his 2 kids with him) dove onto the subway track and laid his body over a man having a seizure to save him as a train approached. The humble hero just moments after the rescue…

Read the heartmelting story below and renew your faith in humanity…

From Man Is Rescued by Stranger on Subway Tracks…

Wesley Autrey, a 50-year-old construction worker and Navy veteran, was waiting for the subway in Manhattan yesterday afternoon, taking his two daughters, Syshe, 4, and Shuqui, 6, home before work. Nearby, a man collapsed, his body convulsing. Mr. Autrey and two women rushed to help. The man, Cameron Hollopeter, 20, managed to get up, but then stumbled to the platform edge and fell to the tracks, between the two rails.

The headlights of the No. 1 train appeared. “I had to make a split decision,” Mr. Autrey said.

So he made one, and leapt. Mr. Autrey lay on Mr. Hollopeter, his heart pounding, pressing him down in a space roughly a foot deep. The train’s brakes screeched, but it could not stop in time.

Five cars rolled overhead before the train stopped, the cars passing inches from his head, smudging his blue knit cap with grease. Mr. Autrey heard onlookers’ screams. “We’re O.K. down here,” he yelled, “but I’ve got two daughters up there. Let them know their father’s O.K.” He heard cries of wonder, and applause.

Photo via Hero Saves Teen on Tracks