Photo Captures Life-Saving Moment for Woman on Subway Tracks

A woman in New York came just feet from getting hit by a train on the city's subway tracks. A photo of the incident shot by a straphanger on the platform, and then captured by Humans of New York, has begun making its way across Facebook and Tumblr.

The caption of the photograph describes what happened:

"I was on the G-Train heading north through Brooklyn when the train abruptly stopped before the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station. The conductor shut down the power of the train, and held us there for about 20 minutes. When we finally pulled into the station, a breathless woman entered my car. 'A woman had a seizure and fell on the tracks!' she said, excitedly. 'And a train was coming into t…
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