Terrified Brooklyn subway riders rescued a straphanger who collapsed onto the train tracks, flagging down an incoming train before pulling him to safety.
A cell phone video captured the scary scene at the Avenue H station in Flatbush after the unidentified man fell face-first Thursday into the path of an approaching Q train.
A panicked Liliana Vicente, who took the video, screamed at the man to get up after his sudden plunge onto the snowy tracks below.
“Sir, please wake up!” she yells during the clip obtained by WABC-TV. “Sir, please wake up!”
Vicente ran to push an emergency call button before scrambling onto the tracks with two other riders and hoisting the victim out of harm’s way.
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SOURCE: NY Daily News, Larry McShane