A drunken woman from Boston in the United States has had a lucky escape after falling onto tracks as a train pulled into the station.

She was clearly a little worse for wear but this woman's night on the town almost ended with far more than a hangover.

As she waited for a subway train in the U.S. city of Boston she suddenly staggered forward, tumbling onto the tracks - as a train approached the station.

Charice Lewis was driving the train - at first she thought the waving passengers were just over enthusiastic sport fans.

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