Man Loses Legs After He Falls Onto Subway Tracks

By Katie Davies Daily Mail

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Man Loses Legs After He Falls Onto Subway Tracks

February 24, 2013 Updated Feb 24, 2013 at 4:03 PM PDT

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.

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