Dog, blind man falls onto subway tracks in NYC

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A blind man was hospitalized after he and his seeing-eye dog fell off a New York subway platform onto the tracks in Harlem, police said.

The 60-year-old man, whose name wasn't reported, and his dog fell off the Harlem station platform at about 9:45 p.m. EST on Tuesday as a northbound A train approached, police said.

"We heard someone yell, 'Oh, no!' and turned around and he was down onto the tracks," witness Ashley Prenza told WPIX-TV, New York.

"We heard the train approaching and everyone was yelling and waving their arms for them to stop."

Prenza said she and other bystanders turned their back to the tracks as the train pulled up to the platform because they were terrified of possibly seeing the man get run over.

After the train stopped, someone yelled out, "It's alright, he's alive," Prenza said.

"They had to slide him out from under the train. It almost ran over him. His face was bloody," she said.