Manhattan, NY - Subway Driver Stops Train Just in Time to Avoid Woman

Manhattan, NY - An eagle-eyed motorman saved a straphanger from almost certain death when he slammed the brakes on a 370-ton train - missing by mere seconds a woman who had fallen on the tracks.

Stunning photographs show the unidentified woman sprawled out on the subway tracks at the Fifth Ave. and 59th St. station about 7 a.m. Saturday.

“The train was rolling into the station and I heard this scream,” said Raymond Rosario, a doorman who was on his way home to Queens. “She was moaning. She couldn’t get up.”

Witnesses along the N train platform waved their arms frantically and screamed for the motorman to stop as the woman lay twisted and helpless. Her body was partially in the drainage trough between the tracks. A black satchel still hung over her left shoulder.

“It seemed like it wasn’t going to stop,” Rosario told the Daily News. “It came so so close, I never saw anything like that. She was very lucky.”

Motorman Francis Lusk had spotted the woman as she plummeted onto the tracks about 300 feet in front of his speeding train.

“She walked right off the platform,” Lusk, 36, told the Daily News. “I was shocked. I didn’t know what was wrong.”

Lusk, who stopped the train about 70 feet from the woman’s body, said he didn’t hesitate to help her