Danger Train: Collision #96?
Accident Blocks METRORail Track (KPRC-2 News)
An accident involving a METRORail train and a sport utility vehicle blocked a section of the light-rail tracks Wednesday afternoon.
Officials said the accident happened shortly after 12 p.m. on Fannin near Oakdale near downtown Houston. Details of the collision are not yet known.
By my count, that's collision #96, but we usually find out from Tom Bazan's public information requests that a few collisions in METRO records have gone unreported, so who knows.
We're getting awfully close to the big 100! That will be world class.
UPDATE: Here's KHOU-11's report:
A citation was issued to the driver of a vehicle involved in a light rail accident Wednesday.
A Metro train collided with an SUV as it pulled out of a parking lot near the intersection of Fannin and Oakdale.
One person on the train was taken to the hospital, but injuries were not considered serious.
The SUV driver was cited for not yielding the right of way.
How many cities have light rail designed so that an SUV pulling out of a parking lot can run into their multimillion dollar light rail transit backbone?!
We are definitely world class.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 07/20/05 13:27 | Danger Train | Technorati
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I can't wait for expansion of the lines. That way the rate will go back up again.
Posted by Laurence Simon @ 15:36 on 07/20/05
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