It was a 62-year-old woman drove onto subway tracks in Brooklyn Thursday morning during an argument with a stranger who asked her for a cigarette lighter, police said.
Other commuters pulled the woman back onto the platform at Jefferson St. L train station in Bushwick around 5:55 a.m., police said.
Moments earlier, a man had asked the victim for a lighter, sparking an argument. As their argument escalated, he punched the victim and then pushed her onto the tracks in front of horrified fellow straphangers.
After being pulled back to safety by good Samaritans before a train could pull into the station, the victim was taken by medics to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center to be treated for a swollen foot, police said.
The attacker got away and is being sought.