Marsha S. Cozier saved Lillian R. Robinson from being killed by a train, New York, New York, March 5, 1964. Miss Robinson, 26, fell from a subway station platform onto a track on which a train, approaching at 20 m.p.h., was 150 feet away. Badly dazed, she lay face upward with her leg and arm over one of the rails. At the other side of the track there was a third rail, which carried electricity. The motorman applied the emergency brakes. Mrs. Cozier, 28, counter clerk, jumped downward four feet from the platform onto the track, spraining her ankle. The train then was within 75 feet of her and approaching at decreasing speed. Dropping to her knees between the rails, Mrs. Cozier took hold of Miss Robinson’s clothing with one hand and her leg with the other and immediately lunged with her into a drainage gutter, which was 20 inches wide and four inches deep, at the center of the track. Two cars of the train passed over them, the motors beneath each car being only 14 inches above the bottom of the gutter. The train stopped with the front end 140 feet beyond them. They crawled 10 feet to an opening between the cars and were aided from the track. Neither Miss Robinson nor Mrs. Cozier was seriously injured.
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