NY Post – February 27, 2015
by Natasha Velez, Rebecca Harshbarger and Amber Sutherland
He showed good street smarts for a guy from rural Indiana.
Chris Marshall faced every commuter’s nightmare when he fell on the subway tracks as a train was barreling into the station — but his split second decision to roll into the space between the first and second rails saved his life.
Marshall, 33, who moved to Brooklyn four years ago, fell onto the Manhattan-bound R-train tracks about halfway down the platform around 8:40 a.m. Thursday at the 4th Avenue and Union Street station in Park Slope.
The motorman saw Marshall fall and hit the emergency brakes, but Marshall positioned himself perfectly and the first car passed clean over him, sources said.
More than a dozen firefighters helped extract Marshall, an aspiring artist and former Naval officer.
Marshall suffered a cracked hip when he hit the track and appeared in pain as medics carried him off in a stretcher, a witness said.
He was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where doctors ruled out head trauma and planned to hold him overnight, his brother, Bernie Marshall said.It’s unclear what caused his fall
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