Chilling Video: Woman Falls Into Path Of Train Video

A Massachusetts transit worker is being praised for her quick thinking at the controls of her train in Boston.

A chilling video captured a drunk woman's close call with death after she fell on to tracks, into the path of an oncoming train.

The MBTA surveillance system captured the scene at Boston's North Station shortly before 11 p.m. on Friday night. The video shows horrified bystanders jumping and waving their arms on the platform as the lights of the oncoming train get closer and closer to the woman passed out on the tracks.

"My friend heard the train honking and the driver yelling. So five or six of us started the flagging and leaning over to try and point down to the center," said an unidentified witness.

Train driver Charice Lewis, 27, said that, incredibly, the woman was smiling.

"As I'm approaching, the woman pokes her head up and I'm like, 'Oh my God, someone's in the pit. So I just threw it in emergency,'" said Lewis.

'I'm like, Oh my God, you really scared me,' she said as she recounted the chilling moments for reporters.

The woman, amazingly enough, escaped with only minor scrapes, and a heck of a story to tell.

Not only was she able to escape the train, the video also shows how close she was to touching the electrified third rail of the tracks.

The woman, who has not been identified, told police she had been drinking.
Boston transport officials honored Lewis Monday for her quick thinking as the drama unfolded.