{"id":637,"date":"2006-01-30T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/how_to_survive_a_fall_onto_the_subway_tracks.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:34:00","slug":"how_to_survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/how_to_survive.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Survive A Fall Onto The Subway Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself on the trackbed in the headlights of an oncoming subway car, roll into the trough between the rails. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/62405.htm\">Just ask this guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Being a subway buff saved Daniel Silverio&#8217;s life &#8212; he knew exactly what to do when he stumbled from a downtown Wall Street subway platform into the path of a No. 2 train.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was walking on the platform when I hit something or bumped into something &#8212; I really can&#8217;t recall,&#8221; Silverio, 29, said yesterday from a bed at Bellevue Hospital, a day after his harrowing brush with death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember being airborne, and the train coming my way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Silverio, a stockbroker from Brooklyn, had the presence of mind to roll into the trough between the track rails &#8212; and luckily for him, the skilled train operator hit the brakes in the nick of time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next thing I knew, I wake up and look over and see the third rail,&#8221; Silverio said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was down there, I knew not to touch anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>When he was a kid, his pals teased him about his being a transit nerd. &#8220;I used to be ridiculed,&#8221; Silverio said. &#8220;For once in my life it came in handy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself on the trackbed in the headlights of an oncoming subway car, roll into the trough between the rails. Just ask this guy: Being a subway buff saved Daniel Silverio&#8217;s life &#8212; he knew exactly what to do when he stumbled from a downtown Wall Street subway platform into the path of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}