After a woman's leg became trapped by a subway train in Boston, the bone exposed through her thigh, she reportedly pleaded with bystanders: Don't call an ambulance. "Do you know how much an ambulance costs?" she wept, according to The Boston Globe. Commuters rushed to rescue the woman after she became stuck in a gap between a train and the subway platform. The incident occured around 5:30 pm on Friday at the Massachusetts Avenue station, according to a police report. The gap was just 5 inches wide. Surveillance video from the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority Transit Police Department showed passengers rocking the train back and forth to free her. Suffering a deep laceration, the unidentified 45-year-old woman's leg was left "twisted and bloody," according to Globe reporter Maria Cramer, who witnessed the accident. The story gained national attention after Cramer's tweet, and the New York Times' editorial board followed with an op-ed titled "This Tweet Captures the State of Health Care in America Today." Police said emergency medical personnel bandaged the wound, which would require surgery, and took her took the hospital. More:This man's 2-mile ambulance ride cost $2,700. Is that normal? Related:$47,000 air ambulance bill for their child shocks family; the insurance company said it would pay $5,000 Follow N'dea Yancey-Bragg on Twitter: @NdeaYanceyBragg<doc-sep>First Name Last Name We will use the details you have shared to manage your registration. You agree to the processing, storage, sharing and use of this information for the purpose of managing your registration as described in our Privacy Policy. Would you like to receive The WeekDay email newsletter? We will use the details you have shared to manage your newsletter subscription. 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Marleny Polanco was on her way home from work when she heard the commotion. “I didn’t actually see her fall. I actually jumped out of the car when I heard some screams,” she said. “I was able to see what was happening. She was clearly stuck between the train and the platform.” Security video from the platform shows a crowd of commuters start to push on the train and rock it enough to pull the woman to safety. After the woman was freed, Polanco stayed to help and talked with her. She had a bad cut on her left thigh; police said it was deep enough to expose the bone. Polanco said the woman was clearly in a lot of pain, but she didn’t want anyone to call an ambulance because she said she couldn’t afford it. “She made it a point to say ‘you don’t understand, I have terrible insurance,’” Polanco said. “Everyone just kept saying don’t worry about that, you need medical help.” Emergency Medical Technicians arrived in 5 or 10 minutes Polanco said, and the woman did agree to go with them. The EMTs bandaged her leg and then took her away in a wheelchair. “She couldn’t walk, she couldn’t stand, she couldn’t do anything on the leg,” Polanco said. An incident report said the EMTs did not see any broken bones, but said she would need surgery. The woman has not been identified. She was taken to Boston Medical Center for treatment. Health care costs vary widely and with the details of the woman’s condition unavailable, it’s difficult to say how much transporting her and treating her injury would cost. A 2012 federal investigation found the median ambulance cost per ride was between $224 and $2,204. CNN’s Hollie Silverman contributed to this report.<doc-sep>Video footage shows the remarkable moment a group of Boston train passengers rushed to help a woman whose leg got caught in a gap between the train and the platform. On Monday, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials released surveillance footage of the June 25 incident. The footage shows a woman coming off the Orange Line Train at the Mass. Ave. Station in Boston and falling into the gap between the train and platform. Fellow passengers immediately crowd around her to help free her and seconds later about a dozen bystanders push the train, tilting it enough to allow the woman to break free. According to the Boston Globe, after being freed, the woman begged onlookers to not call an ambulance because “it’s $3,000, I can’t afford that.” According to a police report, the woman was taken to Boston Medical Center with a serious laceration that exposed the bone on her left thigh. EMS arrived and immediately bandaged up her leg before transporting her. Police said the gap was 5 inches wide. Get The Brief. Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now. Please enter a valid email address. * The request timed out and you did not successfully sign up. Please attempt to sign up again. Sign Up Now An unexpected error has occurred with your sign up. 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A large crowd of good Samaritans in Boston came to the aid of a woman whose leg got stuck between a train and the platform. The crowd of riders on the platform grew and grew, as one after another rushed to help her get her leg out of the gap, according to the Boston ABC affiliate WCVB. Dozens of people helped push back the train to give her space to pull her leg from the gap. Minutes later the woman was able to free her wounded leg, according to a video of the accident released by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) on Monday. “More and more crowds gathered,” witness Peter Shamon told WCVB. “After a while, it was probably a couple hundred people gathered out there on that platform.” Shamon told WCVB it was a constant push, and the power of teamwork from rider helped free the woman from having her leg trapped in the platform. “It happened like that, it was five seconds and she was out,” Shamon told the affiliate. During one heartbreaking moment of the life-or-death drama, the victim implored her rescuers not to call 911 because she said she couldn't afford the cost of the ambulance, the Boston Globe reported. Boston Globe reporter Maria Cramer live-tweeted from the scene. “Awful scene on the orange line," Cramer wrote. "A woman’s leg got stuck in the gap between the train and the platform. It was twisted and bloody. Skin came off. She’s in agony and weeping. Just as upsetting she begged no one call an ambulance. “It’s $3000,” she wailed. “I can’t afford that.” The MBTA said the woman had a pretty bad cut on her leg and was taken to the hospital, according to WCVB.