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“I thought the train was going to cut him in half, honestly.”
That’s how a city employee described the scene after he saved a man from an oncoming train after the Oakland Raiders game Sunday — and footage of the whole ordeal is WILD.
Shortly after the Raiders beat the Lions … a nearby Oakland BART stop was so packed with Raider fans that a man got too close to the tracks and fell.
You can see in the video how dire the situation was … ’cause a train was barreling down on the man just seconds away from his body!!!
But, BART employee John O’Conner quickly sprang into action … grabbing the man and pulling him off the tracks with barely a second to spare.
Afterward, O’Conner admitted to CBS SF he thought the guy was going to die.
“Everybody was telling him, ‘Get out of the trackway, a train’s coming,” O’Conner said. “I thought the train was going to cut him in half, honestly … I didn’t want to see this guy die.”
Fortunately for everybody involved … both men were okay, and cameras caught the two sharing a big embrace afterward.
This #BART worker just saved this man from falling onto the tracks as the train was approaching! Amazing!! pic.twitter.com/RX3zD36853
— Tony Badilla (@TonyBadilla) November 4, 2019
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As for O’Conner, BART officials say he’s a Transportation Supervisor who’s been working for the company for two decades … and called the whole situation “an amazing rescue.”
No kidding!