The Smithsonian Metro station has reopened following the rescue of a woman who was trapped underneath a train. 

D.C. Fire and EMS crews rushed the woman, who was still alive, out of the busy station. Somehow the woman ended up under a moving train. Amazingly, the woman avoided serious injury.

"Miraculously she was able to comport herself between the two rails and the train rolled perfectly over top of her and it doesn't look like it even hit her," said D.C. Fire and EMS Spokesman Alan Etter.

The accident, though, forced authorities to shut down the station, causing a chaotic back-up at the two closest stops on the blue and orange lines--Federal Triangle and L'Enfant Plaza.  

"They can't tell us which bus. They keep sending us here, then there going to send us back. It's ridiculous," said passenger, Kathy Howard.

Buses were brought in to shuttle passengers around the closed station, but not before frustration set in for riders on a tight schedule.

"They kicked me off the train (and) now I can't get to where I'm going. I'm on my way to work and i'm going to be late for work," said passenger, Rick Smith.

Officials suspect the woman jumped intentionally into the path of the train, and say, her survival is quite extraordinary considering the fact that there is very little room between the tracks and the train.

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