This is the moment a police officer pulled a man off of train tracks just moments before a train roared into the station.

Officer Victor Ortiz can be seen in the CCTV video from New Jersey Transit struggling to get the man off the tracks.

The man appears to be resisting the officer's efforts to pull him to safety.

Ortiz said he had no time to think about himself when he struggled to pull the man off the tracks.

"At that point he's like, 'I just want to die, I just want to die,'" Ortiz told CBS. "He pretty much went down on his knees and down on his arms. At that point I said, 'You're not going to die, you're not going to die.'"

He added: "I saw the train rapidly approaching an in an instant I said to myself, 'I'm going to have to let this guy go because other he's going to take me with him, It's just a matter of seconds there'. On the flip side, I said to myself, 'Let me give one more tug on hopes I can pull him through.'"

Mr Ortiz managed to yank him off the tracks with just seconds to spare before the train pulled into the Secaucus train station on Friday.