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MARTA Bystanders Rescue Visually Impaired Man From Tracks

April 6th, 2017

A visually impaired man rescued by other riders from the tracks at the MARTA Five Points station Thursday was hospitalized with a leg injury.

Mary Claire Kelly / WABE

Several people leaped to action and risked their own lives Thursday morning to help a visually impaired man who fell from the MARTA Five Points station train platform to the tracks below.

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A video shot by a bystander shows two people who had jumped down next to the man lifting him by his legs while two others on the platform grab his shoulders. The video shows transit police officers arriving just as the man is hoisted back onto the platform.

Good Samaritans risked their own lives to save a visually impaired man who fell off a MARTA platform in Atlanta. Vid credit: Jason Molineaux pic.twitter.com/qN3adJ0qQu

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Erik Burton, a spokesman for MARTA, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the man fell onto the southbound tracks at the downtown station around 8 a.m. Thursday.

Burton says the man was taken to a hospital with an ankle or leg injury. His name was not released.