How To Survive A Fall Onto The Subway Tracks

If you find yourself on the trackbed in the headlights of an oncoming subway car, roll into the trough between the rails. Just ask this guy:

Being a subway buff saved Daniel Silverio’s life — he knew exactly what to do when he stumbled from a downtown Wall Street subway platform into the path of a No. 2 train.

“I was walking on the platform when I hit something or bumped into something — I really can’t recall,” Silverio, 29, said yesterday from a bed at Bellevue Hospital, a day after his harrowing brush with death.

“I remember being airborne, and the train coming my way.”

Silverio, a stockbroker from Brooklyn, had the presence of mind to roll into the trough between the track rails — and luckily for him, the skilled train operator hit the brakes in the nick of time.

“The next thing I knew, I wake up and look over and see the third rail,” Silverio said.

“When I was down there, I knew not to touch anything.”

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When he was a kid, his pals teased him about his being a transit nerd. “I used to be ridiculed,” Silverio said. “For once in my life it came in handy.”