MUMBAI: It’s a job of responsibility driving Mumbai’s local train and ferrying lakhs of commuters daily to their destinations. But apart from that, there have also been these life saviours who have prevented people from dying on the tracks with 12 lives saved by motormen between April and August, a senior official from Central Railway said on Monday. Of the 12 lives saved in the past five months, four incidents were witnessed in August.
The latest one was on August 31 when motorman Sanjay Kumar Chouhan, while operating the Thane-Ambernath local, noticed a man lying on the track in front of the train. He immediately applied emergency brakes and stopped the train. “The man later got up and left the track and his suicide attempt was averted thus saving a precious life,” said CR chief spokesperson Shivaji Sutar.
In the second incident on August 28, motorman G S Bisht from Mumbai division while working on Titwala-CSMT local saw a woman aged around 55 years in the middle of the track.
