Subway workers honored for saving life

BOSTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Two Boston transit workers have been honored for saving the life of a woman who fell to subway tracks after drinking heavily.

Clarice Lewis was operating an Orange Line train when she got a radio message Friday from Jacqueline Osorio, an inspector for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, who was on the platform at the North Station stop, The Boston Globe reported. Osorio told Lewis to pull the emergency brake immediately.

Both women were honored Monday by state Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey Mullan.

Lewis said she thought at first the woman on the tracks was dead or seriously injured. She walked away with nothing obviously wrong except skinned knees, although she was taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation.

"It was so close, I thought it was not good," Lewis said. "Afterward she came up with a big smile on her face and I'm like 'Oh my God, you really scared me,'" Lewis said. "The most exciting part for me is she crawled out from under."