Footage has emerged of the incredible moment an apparently intoxicated man fell between two moving subway carriages in Washington D.C. only to come out unscathed . Security cameras inside Metro 's Mount Vernon station captured the incident around 5pm on Sunday March 1 . The man can bee seen stumbling around the platform , obviously unsteady on his feet , before tumbling straight through the gap between two subway cars . The fall occurs right as the doors are closing the the train is preparing to leave the station . Unsteady : This is the moment the apparently intoxicated man ( left ) loses his balances and goes to fall into the cap between the two carriages . Fall : The video shows the passenger falling straight into the space between the connected carriages . Down : The man slips straight into the gap , as fellow passengers ( right ) watch on with shock . As the man falls , shocked onlookers try to help , only to realize the train is alighting . One man can be seen in the video panicking and holding his hands in the air . However , one the train passes and people scurry to the platform 's edge , believing a tragedy has just occurred , they suddenly see the man get to his feet and continue stumbling . He somehow fell into the zone outside of the rails known as the 'area of refuge ' . The fellow passengers quickly pull the man up to the platform . Police arrived to assist the man . He suffered only minor injuries from the fall . Safe : People on the platform can be seen pulling the man back up onto the station after the train departs . Perhaps more startling is the fact that incidents such as these happen every week , according to a Metro spokesman . 'It 's important for riders to monitor themselves and also look out for their friends , ' Metro spokesman Dan Stessel told NBC Washington . 'If you go out for drinks with a group and someone is clearly not able to walk properly , maybe that 's the time to order a cab or an Uber , that sort of thing . ' Encouraging a fallen passenger to roll into the area of refuge is a 'last resort ' , Stessel told The Washington Post . However in this case it seemed to be accidental . Miraculous : The man managed to fall into the space between the platform and the tracks known as the 'area of refuge '
Incident occurred at Washington D.C station in Mount Vernon on March 1 . Man fell between two subway cars as the train leaves the platform . He managed to fall into the 'area of refuge ' outside the rails . Metro spokesman says similar incidents happen every week .