A heroic straphanger saved a 9-month-old boy today after a gust of wind blew the tot’s stroller into the path of an oncoming subway in Brooklyn, authorities and witnesses said.
His mother had apparently forgotten to put the brakes on the stroller as she was tending to his three siblings, according to Khalima Ansari, 21, who watched the drama unfold and called 911.
A burst of breeze set the stroller in motion, and down the child went into the rail bed of the J-line.
Without missing a beat, brave good Samaritan Delroy Simmonds selflessly jumped in after the youngster and scooped him up as a train fast approached, Ansari said.
Kudos to Mr. Simmonds, as well as Ms. Ansari for being observant and helping to keep the baby awake until the EMTs arrived.
Ansari said Simmonds picked up the tot and the stroller and put them back on the platform, with some help from the child’s shocked mother and another good Samaritan.
“And then he pushed himself back onto the platform. But the train was seconds away. The driver was honking the horn and then stopped seconds before it got to them,” she said.
As a result of slamming into the wood planks and steel rails, he suffered a “big gash in the middle of his head so you could see his skull,” said Ansari. “And it was gushing blood.”
Ansari told the upset mom to keep the baby awake as his eyes started to blink slower and slower.
Kudos to Mr. Simmonds, as well as Ms. Ansari for being observant and helping to keep the baby awake until the EMTs arrived.
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