Incoming Train Severs Mans Legs

Incoming Train Severs Mans Legs

BRONX, NEW YORK – A man has had both his legs cut off after drunkenly falling in front of a New York Subway train last night.

The unidentified man, said to be in his 40s, was waiting for a train in the Bronx, when he fell off the platform into the path of an incoming train, the Gothamist reports.

Before he could pull himself to safety, the D-train came into the 161 Street-Yankee Stadium subway stop crushing and severing both of his legs.

It is the 6th time in five days that someone has been hit by a train in the city.

A MTA worker told the New York Post: ‘He was drunk, he was intoxicated.’

The fire department rushed officers to the scene who pulled the man from the tracks into a waiting ambulance .

He is currently being treated in Lincoln Hospital and was said to be lucky to escape with his life.

Witness Joey Boots, who filmed the rescue on his phone, described the victim as ‘Hispanic’.

The footage shows firefighters arriving at the scene with a stretcher and departing with the man putting him in an ambulance next to McDonald’s outside the station.