This is the heart-stopping moment a panicking father sprints after a moving train after he left his baby alone on board to smoke a cigarette.
CCTV footage from last month shows the man boarding the train with a baby in a basket, then leaving it on a seat while he stepped out to have a smoke at Rapid Transit train station in Cleveland, Ohio.
A concerned passenger watched over the baby until he realised the doors were closing.
![The father places his baby on one of the seats as the train sits in the station waiting to depart.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/EUVTRXBHA6MQKOGBZFXK2ASWEM.jpg?auth=d3b8d14329959af9122d59155e6f4e1693965b12ed57fee4d4cdb0cfff448a7f&width=16&height=12&quality=70&smart=true)
The passenger then ran up to the doors to try to open them.