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HOUSTON – Police dashcam video shows a Magnolia police officer rescuing a driver sitting on a railroad track just before a train smashes into the vehicle.

Cpl. Jose Lopez said he saw that Lynn Eggenberger’s car was stuck on the train tracks in the 200 block of Magnolia Boulevard early Saturday morning.

“I can walk,” the 26-year-old woman told Lopez as he escorted her to his squad car.

“I understand,” Lopez told her. “Your car’s on top of the railroad, just in case you don’t remember.”

“How much have you had to drink tonight,” he asked her.

“Not much,” she said.

“Really?” he asked.

“I got a train coming, get in here,” he told her.

Then, less than four minutes after he first arrived at the scene, and not even a minute after he escorted her to his squad car, the dashcam video shows the train smashing into the car.

“It was a very loud noise. Sparks flying everywhere — more like a Hollywood stunt,” Lopez said. “You don’t see very much out here in Magnolia.”

Eggenberger was charged with DWI, booked into jail and then released.

“I believe he is a hero. He doesn’t see it that way,” said Magnolia Police Chief Domingo Ibarra. “He’s very modest.  He looks at his shoes when I said, ‘Corporal, you saved a life.’ He’s like, ‘Aw chief, I was just doing my job.”