KPRC-2 reports a Danger Train collision earlier today:
A METRORail train was involved in an accident with a vehicle Wednesday afternoon, making it the 100th accident since the light-rail service began, Local 2 reported.
Officials said a vehicle was northbound on Fannin, in front of Texas Children’s Hospital, at 2:40 p.m. when the driver turned left on a red light. The light-rail train was northbound on Fannin and hit the side of the car.
Two people on the train had minor injuries, but were not transported to a hospital.
The driver of the car was not injured. He was cited by police.
As noted previously, we passed 100 collisions a while back (since METRO is fairly secretive with the crash information). Best estimate is that this was #106. It would be nice if the mainstream media would dig a little deeper and get their numbers up to date.
UPDATE: KTRK-13 reports the accident (wrongly) as #100 also.
Rich Connelly reports for the Houston Press on the discrepancy in the reported figures, and includes a pretty lame quote from METRO’s spokesman that doesn’t really explain the discrepancy at all.
2 comments On Danger Train: Collision #106
It’s too bad no media outlet did a story on all the office pools around town for #100. That would have been fun!
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