A Few Good Men are around

This is a great story. The kind we need more of.
NEW YORK In an incredible case of heroism and bravery, a man who fell onto subway tracks early this afternoon and a good samaritan who then jumped on the tracks to save him miraculously suffered only minor injuries after an oncoming subway train actually ran over them.

The incident happened about 1 p.m. at Broadway IRT station at 137th Street when a 20-year-old man apparently tumbled onto the tracks after suffering from a seizure.

Another subway passenger, 50-year-old Wesley Autrey a navy vetern, was standing on the platform with his two daughters whom he was taking home so he could go to his construction job. When Autrey saw the man fall, he quickly took action and left his daughters to jump on the tracks and bring the man to safety as an oncoming train approached.

"I was trying to pull him up, but his weight [was too much] plus he was fighting against me -- he didn't know who I was. The only thing that popped up in my mind was, 'OK well go for the gutter,' so I dove in, I pinned him down and once the first car ran over us my thing with him was to keep him still," Autrey told CBS 2.

Autrey said the man was still moving violently from the seizure, so he pulled him into the center of the tracks and laid on top of him. The train literally passed over the two men, and Autrey said there was "maybe" about two inches between their bodies and the speeding subway.

"We're looking and we can see the train coming -- there's no way the train can stop before this gentleman can get him off the tracks," said Patricia Brown, a social worker who Autrey had handed his daughters over to before he dove onto the tracks. "So he covered him with his body and pushed him down to a point where the train wouldn't hit his head and held him under the tracks while the train came and rolled right over the top of them."

Autrey's daughters had instantly thought the train had killed their father and the teen, but their worries quickly dissipated when they heard their father scream up from under the train that the two were fine.

"I didn't want the man's body to get run over plus I was with my daughters and I didn't want them to see that," Autrey added.

The man who fell onto the tracks was taken to St. Luke's Hospital where he's said to be in stable condition. His identity has not yet been released. Autrey walked away without a scratch. Neither came into any contact with the train.
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