Toddler rescued from train tracks after pushchair rolls off platform

16 May 2013CCTV footage captures the buggy rolling away from the mother, who leaps after it onto the tracks to rescue her toddler as other passengers gather to help. The accident happened on Wednesday afternoon at the 56th Street station of the Market-Frankford Line in west Philadelphia. "What it looks like to us is that the mother became distracted by something, didn't apply the brake on the stroller and the stroller was able to move off the platform and onto the tracks," said Scott Sauer, director of system safety for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. The platform at the station is slanted slightly for drainage purposes, Mr Sauer added. The infant was taken to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for treatment of a cut on her forehead.