Man falls on Rail track, survives

A blind man fell onto the tracks at a subway station as a train was arriving Thursday, but he escaped unharmed by lying flat as the cars screeched to a halt above him, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. The train ‘ran over the man but didn’t touch him, thank God,’ LA Metro spokesman Paul Gonzales said. ‘In my view this is a miraculous occurrence. The man is exceedingly lucky to be alive.’ The 47-year-old Los Angeles man fell from the platform at the Wilshire and Vermont station in the city’s Koreatown neighborhood as a Red Line train was approaching.