March 9 (UPI) — A man’s dashboard camera was recording at New Jersey intersection when he ran out of his car to rescue an elderly woman from an oncoming train.
Jon Mango was stopped at the railroad crossing Wednesday afternoon in Saddle Brook when he saw an elderly woman with two walking canes appearing to have trouble getting out of the path of the oncoming train.
“I’m watching and I see her going across and I’m like, ‘this isn’t feeling right,'” Mango told WABC-TV.
“I saw the train was really coming. I sprinted onto the tracks and I pulled her by the arm. She was scared, like I was trying to do something,” Mango said. “She actually stopped because she was scared, so then I tried grabbing her arm and then really tried pulling her. She was having a lot of trouble.”
Mango said the train whooshed by only inches from their bodies when he finally got the woman off the tracks.
“I’m not a hero, I’m not anything. I just saw something and something needed to be done,” Mango said.
The woman was taken to a local hospital as a precaution.
“Just an ordinary Wednesday,” Mango said.
Mango’s sister, Alyssa, said the incident was typical of her brother.
“This act is so reflective of who he is as a person. Just a genuine selfless human always wanting to help others,” she wrote on Facebook.
