Clay, N.Y. — The song “Stayin’ Alive” was in Andrea Elia’s head — not from her playlist, but from her CPR training.

The song’s beat helped her keep time as she did CPR to save a man’s life after he was thrown from his motorcycle in a crash in Clay .

Around 2:50 p.m. Oct. 17, Elia was driving out of the Bryant & Stratton College on Route 57 in Clay, where she’s a nursing student. She stopped and heard the distinct revving of a motorcycle engine.

“I looked left, saw the motorcycle, followed it with my eyes,” she said. “And then — boom — he hit a car. I saw his body go flying.”

The crash, near the Splash Car Wash Express, sent Michael J. Rubino, 30, into the air. His Kawasaki had slammed into the side of a BMW pulling out of the car wash.

Rubino was lying in the road, not movin

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