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Re: Car collides with Los Angeles' Expo rail train, 6 injured |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Mar 17 23:09:04 2012, in response to Re: Car collides with Los Angeles' Expo rail train, 6 injured, posted by Easy on Sat Mar 17 23:00:53 2012. That (kinda) happened in the only vehicle-Blue Line accident that I ever witnessed. Early 1991, shortly after 7th St/Metro Center opened, I was on a southbound train, we come out of the portal headed toward Pico station. Right when we get to 12th St, T/O suddenly goes into emergency and I hear the impact. This van had apparently made a left turn against the red arrow from Flower St onto 12th St in front of the train. Man and a woman (wife?) were inside, fortunately not injured (I think the LRV just hit a glancing blow). I figured we'd be there for awhile, but the T/O got on the radio, after going out to talk to the van driver, and after a few minutes, we were on our way. Guess Central Control cleared him to go, and let the LAUSD Blue Line division follow up. Once we got on the main line, turns out the horn was trashed (the original horns were down low, lower right hand corner of the car, I think they often were causalities of even a minor collision), so he used the bell the rest of the way. Probably why they eventually moved the horns to the roof. Glad I never witnessed any of the really bad accidents, though there was a close call or two. |
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