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This is the chilling video that captures a drunk woman's brush with death after she fell on to the tracks of an underground station into the path of an oncoming train.CCTV images capture the woman falling off the platform onto the tracks before horrified bystanders at Boston's North Station shortly before 11pm on Friday night.As the lights of a train can be seen approaching, the bystanders can be seen frantically waving to the driver in a desperate attempt to get her to stop.
The woman lies motionless on the tracks, apparently having temporarily passed out.But the female driver of the train reacts instinctively, wrenching her emergency hand brake.The train comes to a sickening halt - partly over the motionless body of the drunk woman. Half a second later she leaps out from underneath the train and clambers up the side of the platform.
Train driver Charice Lewis, 27, said that, incredibly, the woman was smiling.'I'm like, Oh my God, you really scared me,' she said as she recounted the chilling moments for reporters.'It was so close, I thought it was not good.'Somehow the woman escaped with just scraped knees.Not only did she narrowly escape being run over, she also narrowly escaped being electrocuted, as CCTV footage showed her foot coming dangerously close to the electrified third rail of the tracks.The woman, who has not been identified, told police she had been drinking for several hours before. She was taken to hospital for evaluation.Ms Lewis was honoured for her quick thinking in the drama yesterday, receiving an award from Boston transport officials and a congratulatory phone call from the governor.One bystander told the Boston Globe she had locked eyes with the woman as she fell onto the tracks.'It looked like it was not going to end well,' she said.
11:06 AM
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Passengers watched in horror as a pushchair carrying a baby rolled off the edge of a platform in front of a train.The pram and the six-month-old infant were dragged along under the engine as the driver desperately fought to slow his 250-ton train.No one on the platform believed the child could possibly have survived.
But when ambulance officers arrived a few minutes later they were astounded to find that, not only had he escaped with just a minor bump on his head - but he was safely back in his mother's arms.Rescue workers found the child amid the wreckage of the smashed pushchair under one of the carriages. There was a gap between the bottom of the carriage and the lines of just a few inches, but it was those inches that made the difference between life and death.The drama, at a suburban railway station in Melbourne, was captured on video footage obtained by the city's Herald Sun newspaper.The mother, pictured, momentarily distracted as she hitches up her jeans several feet from the edge of the platform, suddenly realises the pushchair is rolling away from her. 
The carriage rolls to the edge of the platform - and, as the mother realises what is happening and darts toward it, topples onto the tracks - directly into the path of the oncoming train
Despair: The mother, at the edge of the track, frantically reaches as the train roars into the station - but she cannot reach her baby in time
She instinctively lunges towards it, but she is still two or three feet away as it tumbles over the edge.In a split second, the train comes into the station at 30mph and ploughs into the pram.The mother's frantic body language, with her hands to her head, leaves no doubt that she believes her baby has been killed before her eyes. 
Last night police and railway officials were describing the baby's survival as 'a miracle'.They believe that the pushchair acted as a protective shield.Another factor was the swift reaction of the train's driver who slammed on the brakes when he saw the pram rolling across the platform.He could not stop the train immediately but slowed it enough to lessen the impact.Jon Wright, an intensive care paramedic, said: 'All the baby needed afterwards, apparently, was a feed and a nap.'
This is the chilling video that captures a drunk woman's brush with death after she fell on to the tracks of an underground station into the path of an oncoming train.
The woman lies motionless on the tracks, apparently having temporarily passed out.
Train driver Charice Lewis, 27, said that, incredibly, the woman was smiling.
