A rainy evening at Queensboro Plaza in New York nearly turned tragic when a 14-year-old boy fainted and fell onto the subway tracks. Quick action by conductor Ray McKie, who was off-duty at the time, prevented disaster.
On August 20, McKie, 37, was walking through the station when panicked screams came from the platform above. “I saw that there was a train coming in, and I looked at the tracks, and I saw that there was a person pretty much lying on the tracks,” McKie told PEOPLE.
The teen had collapsed onto the northbound N and W tracks just as a train approached. Despite the storm making the ground slick, McKie ran toward the train and signaled the operator to stop. The brakes engaged, but the train was still moving when another passenger jumped down to help…