Good Samaritan honored for rescuing woman stuck on Metra tracks

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Saturday, January 17, 2015
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra's Board of Directors recognized Ed Suarez Friday after he pulled an elderly woman from the path of a train last month.

Suarez was driving in suburban Western Springs when he saw a woman make a wrong turn, driving on the railroad tracks.

Suarez got out of his car and ran after her, and with the help of another bystander, pulled the 80-year-old woman out of her car just before a train came