Attleboro Mom and Son Rescued from MBTA Rail

A man jumped into the pit of the MBTA Kendall Station in Cambridge Wednesday evening to rescue a 4-year-old Attleboro boy who was stuck on the track while a woman rescued his mother, according to the Boston Herald. The two heroes jumped onto the next train without telling anybody their names.

The Herald reported:

The potentially deadly misstep took place as the woman entered the southbound platform at Kendall Station at around 6 p.m. yesterday and kept walking — without hesitation — past the yellow caution strip and right off the concrete platform, tumbling headfirst down onto the track bed 4 feet below.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said it appears the Attleboro woman believed the northbound train — which had pulled up on the opposite platform — was the one she wanted to board.

"The mother explained that she had seen a train at the northbound platform and believed she could board it," he said. "She was looking straight ahead and apparently did not see the pit or the southbound tracks below."

The woman and her son did not show any visible signs of injury, according to the Herald. They were taken to Mass General Hospital for examination.