Dec 28, 2007 9:13 am US/Eastern
Woman Searching For Her NYC Subway Hero
Man Pulled Victim From Path Of Train And Disappeared
BRONX (CBS) ―
The woman you're about to meet, knows a lot about the spirit of giving. She's a blood donor who gave the gift of life just one night before a Good Samaritan would save hers.
On the morning before Thanksgiving witnesses say 24-year-old Lisa Donath collapsed face first onto the tracks of the 191st Street train station, knocking out her teeth and breaking her jaw and eye socket.
"I was just standing here and I started getting really hot, so I unbuttoned my coat and I started getting really dizzy," Donath said. "So I leaned up against this pillar and that was the last thing that I remembered."
But then a stranger jumped in to lift her to safety just seconds before a train pulled in.
"I kind of looked out of the corner of my eye and I saw this Hispanic man standing there," Donath said. "And I remember mouthing the words thank you, but I really couldn't talk, and I didn't know what was going on. He kind of just nodded and that was the last I saw him."
Several days after the accident Donath ran into a man who gave her a shirt to stop the bleeding. While walking in the train station one week later, she saw the woman who stayed by her side, but the man who risked everything has alluded her.
Donath isn't counting on her luck to find the man that saved her. She wanted to put up posters in the subway station but she says the Metropolitan Transportation Authority wouldn't allow her. So now she's hoping he's out there somewhere watching and will contact her.
"I'd love to find him and thank him," Donath said. "Because without him I wouldn't be here."
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