Three-Year Old Boy Separated from Dad when Subway Train Door Closes - Video 11/20/09

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Here is video of a Portland, Oregon father being separated from his 3 year-old son when the door of the subway train they were exiting suddenly closed after the boy pushed a button. The video shows the boy exiting first holding his Dad's hand. Then suddenly, the door closes and the boy is left alone outside the train with the father inside the train.

A Good Samaritan woman standing close by saw it all and came to the boy's assistance, taking him by the hand and waiting with him for seven minutes until the father was able to return. The Dad is trying to get answers as to why the buttons he pushed to re-open the door and to contact the train conductor did not seem to work.

It's good to see a happy ending to what could have been a tragic story. This woman's actions show there are still a lot of really fine people in our country.