ABOVE: Security camera footage shows multiple bystanders rushing to aid a man in a motorised wheelchair after he falls onto Washington, DC subway tracks
A man was rescued from the tracks at a Metro station in the US capital, Washington, DC, after his motorised wheelchair rolled off the platform.
Surveillance video showed two bystanders jumping onto the tracks to lift the man and his wheelchair back onto the platform on Tuesday afternoon at the U Street station.
A Metro spokesman said the nearest train was three stops away when the bystanders jumped onto the tracks.
Metro said the man who fell had a bloody mouth but no other visible injuries.
He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
It wasn’t clear why the man’s motorised wheelchair rolled off the platform.
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