A man has been flooded with praise after he risked his own life to save a man in a wheelchair who fell onto train tracks.

Footage of the heroic act was posted on Instagram on August 4, where it unsurprisingly went viral, garnering over 147K likes at the time of writing.

The video, which was filmed in New York, was captioned: "This afternoon in Union Square a man in a wheelchair somehow ended up on the subway tracks.

"Luckily, a Good Samaritan jumped down and rescued the man (and his wheelchair) about 10 seconds before the train came into the station. Huge shoutout to whoever the guy is who jumped down to help!"

Watch the good samaritan save the man's life below:

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The comments section of the video was subsequently flooded with praise for the man.

One Instagram user wrote: "New Yorkers are the absolutely best people in the world."

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A second added: "Wow it's 2021. You would think the MTA would have some type of technology to let the train drivers have a live feed of the tracks."

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A third wrote: "Faith in Humanity Restored."

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While a fourth added: "Omg that was to f-ing close! I breathed a huge sigh of relief. New Yorkers are a different breed [sic]."

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Meanwhile, another video of a train track incident also recently went viral on Twitter when a car was filmed speeding along a track as its driver tried to evade the police.

It was posted to Twitter on July 15 with the caption: "Man was tekking from the police on the tracks."

Watch the viral video below:

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Reacting to the three-second clip, one Twitter user wrote: "you're mad to think its took someone this long to pull a gta move like this [sic]."

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A second joked: "Appalling. He indicated left and went right!"

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A third wrote: "the Uber driver just said it's a shortcut."

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Featured image credit: Alamy / Stefano Politi Markovina

Man flooded with praise as he rushed to save man in wheelchair who fell onto train tracks