WEIRD NEWS OF THE WEEK: Dozens of commuters rock 90-tonne train to free man's trapped leg

People power saved the day after a commuter's leg got stuck between the train and the platform.

By Dave Lancaster |

17:39 06 August 2014

Mind the gap: Three words that will probably have more of an impact now for a commuter in Perth, Western Australia who managed to get his leg trapped between a halted train and the platform during the rush hour.

The emergency was handled by fellow commuters rather than waiting around for emergency staff to arrive.

The man's fellow travellers pushed the train's 90-tonne carriage with their bare hands to tilt it off the rails slightly so the gap would increase, thus freeing the man on Wednesday morning.

Transperth spokesman David Hynes was quoted by ABC: 'He stood in the doorway and as he was sort of taking up his position there, one leg slipped outside the door, slipped outside the gap, and he was stuck.

'We alerted the driver, made sure the train didn't move.

'Then our staff who were there at the time got the passengers, and there were lots of them, off the train, and organised them to sort of rock, tilt the train backwards away from the platform so they were able to get him out and rescue him.

'Everyone sort of pitched in. It was people power that saved someone from possibly quite serious injury,'