Danger Train Collision (With Blind Man)!
Laurence Simon alerted me to this collision with the Danger Train today:
A man was transported to the hospital with head injuries this morning after he was struck by a light rail train downtown, Metro officials said.
The victim, whose condition is unknown, was conscious and breathing after the accident, said Metro spokesman George Smalley. He was taken to Ben Taub Hospital.
The accident occurred near the intersection of Lamar and Main at 11:45 a.m. Three eyewitnesses told police they saw the man "walk in front of the train," Smalley said.
The man was walking northbound on the west side of Main and would have had to turn or walk to his right to get in the way of the train, which was headed southbound, Smalley said.
That's gotta sting.
Oh, and did I mention that the man struck by the train was blind?
A world-class celebration on Braille's Birthday, no? (Thanks to Laurence for making that connection).
Also, there was a Danger Train collision while I was hiking in the Ouachitas around Christmas that Anne blogged about on bH but that I never mentioned here. The collision actually derailed the Danger Train, making the streets safe for a short time. Emergency personnel treated it as a "mass casualty event" and several people were hospitalized (none of them died, so far as I know).
I cross that intersection (Elgin) every morning, and you better believe I look both ways and don't cross on green unless I'm sure the Danger Train is nowhere in sight. I've seen the operators speeding through that intersection, and I frankly don't trust them to stop if they have the stop light (they are never supposed to have the stop light, according to METRO, but I see it regularly).
I've completely lost count of the collisions, since METRO and local media aren't very good about getting these things reported.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/04/06 13:44 | Danger Train | Technorati
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will know not to cross the street.
Posted by Laurence Simon @ 14:23 on 01/04/06
Using the "new math" version of guess-estimating, it is likely 126+ although John Gaver seems only able to absolutely verify 123 as of the end of 2005.
Posted by Tom Bazan @ 19:26 on 01/04/06
Tom ran accross some new signage purportedly as a reaction to the high speed train/brain collision. You can see it on my blog here:
http://redinktexas.blogspot...
Posted by Rorschach @ 14:52 on 01/08/06
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