SEE IT: Cops pull disoriented man off Manhattan subway tracks after straphangers halt train
NYPD Officers Christopher Tuccio and Officer William Jansen worked with straphangers to pull the disoriented man off the subway tracks.
Two cops joined with straphangers to rescue a disoriented man who ended up frighteningly close to the third rail when he fell to the tracks of a Lower East Side subway station.
The unidentified 60-year-old man plunged from the uptown No. 6 platform at Canal St. just before 4:30 p.m. Friday, police said.
Though the fall happened at rush hour, the coronavirus pandemic made the platform disturbingly empty of people.
Online video shows two straphangers as they noticed the disoriented man on the track bed.
They debated whether to jump down and pull the man up as one of them signaled the oncoming train with his cell phone.
The helpless victim writhed on one of the track rails, his head inches from the electrified third rail. The train stopped just as it was entering the station.
NYPD Officers Christopher Tuccio and Officer William Jansen soon arrived and went down to the tracks.
“He was completely disoriented,” said Tuccio, a 12 year NYPD vet. "He didn’t know what happened. He was pretty close to the third rail.”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa take it easy. We’re not going hurt you,” Tuccio said as the disoriented man struggled. “We’re going to get you off the train tracks.”
The officers lifted him up to a pair of good Samaritans on the platform, who finished the save.
“We’re just doing what we can to help people,” said Tuccio. “Anybody would want to help given the same situation.”
The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
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