Doctor Dies While Trying To Save Patient From Railway Tracks

A Doctor in his 70’s has died yesterday in London while
trying to save one of his patients when he was hit by a train. The doctor, said
to be in his 70s, jumped onto railway tracks to pull the woman, in her 30s, to
safety after seeing her fall from a bridge.

He began pulling at her in a desperate bid to drag her off
the tracks as a speeding train approached, but he could not move her in time
and the train hit both of them killing him and seriously injuring the woman. Locals have now revealed the man is thought to have been the
woman’s doctor and he had been treating her for a number of years. However, the
police are yet to confirm if the pair knew each other. Continue…

A shaken onlooker Michael Kember, 44, who gave a statement
to police, said: “The lady had been on the bridge over the line and then jumped
off it. She landed right between the rails where she was lying parallel between
them. The man then jumped down and was trying to get her off. While he was
doing that you could hear the electric rail buzzing meaning that the train was
coming. You could hear the driver was sounding the horn and the brakes of the
train were squealing. The man couldn’t get her off and he was then trying to
get to the end of the platform but did not make it and that was when the
accident happened,” he said.

“The bloke was a hero. It’s just so unfortunate that this
happened to someone trying to rescue another person”, he said.