Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe OLTON, England, July 27 (UPI) -- A man in Olton, England, fell onto railroad tracks as a train was coming, but escaped death because the train was making an unscheduled stop, police said. The middle-aged man -- who witnesses said was drunk -- gashed his head in the fall, managed to get up and staggered away from the tracks before paramedics could arrive, the Daily Mirror of London reports. Advertisement The stopped train was an express that would normally have thundered past the small suburban station at 60 mph. But a passenger on the train had requested a special stop after a previous local train was canceled, so the train was already slowing down for the stop, Britain's Network Rail says. The train missed the inebriated men by 20 yards. "He was very, very lucky that he wasn't killed," a Network Rail spokesman said. The man apparently didn't realize quite how lucky he was, the newspaper said. "He kept saying, 'I am all right, down here, mate. Don't you worry,'" passenger Lionel Goulder said. "He seemed to be smashed out of his brains on drink."
