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Choices: Subway Rescue

> RESCUER PINS FALLEN TEENAGER AS SUBWAY PASSES OVER THEM

Wesley Autrey faced a harrowing choice, as he tried to rescue a teenager who had fallen off a platform onto a subway track in front of an approaching train: Struggle to hoist him back up to the platform in time, or take a chance on finding safety under the train.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/03/subway.rescue.ap/index.html

Rescue Subway Choices

I think the choice he made to pin them both down as the train passed over them was the wise choice. Otherwise he was placing both of their lives at risk. I do not think he would have had time to get the teen back on the platform and save himself too.