The South Yorkshire teens said their act of bravery was just ‘instinct’

Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide which some readers may find distressing.

Two teenagers have been called ‘heroes’ after they jumped in the way of a moving train to stop a man from killing himself.

The friends were waiting for the last train home on Saturday (25 May) when they saw the man in a sleeping bag on the Bolton-upon Dearn station platform.

Freddie Corbett, 15 and Harley Hollingworth, 16, jumped onto the tracks and pulled the man to safety in South Yorkshire, UK.

Harley told the Mirror: “I wasn’t worried about the train, I just wanted to make sure Freddie got him off the tracks.”
The man got out of his sleeping bag while they were on the platform, and went on the train tracks, saying: “I’m going to kill myself tonight.”

Freddie responded: “You’re not doing that mate.”

The teenagers said the train’s headlights were visible, with Freddie estimating that it would have pulled into the station just 45 seconds after they pulled the man off the tracks.

So despite the threat to their own lives with the train so close by, Freddie and Harley jumped onto the tracks to save his life, with the former calling the brave act as ‘just natural instinct’.