rsb320 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 There was a collision at Main and Capitol around 9:00am. Injuries are reported. The train derailed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 METRO Investigating Morning Rail AccidentMETRO Safety and Police Department officials are investigating a collision that occurred at Capitol and Main in Houston’s downtown area this morning. Preliminary reports indicate a dump truck traveling west on Capitol ran a red light at Main Street colliding with a METRO light-rail train. Fifteen persons, including the operators of the vehicles, were transported by Houston Fire Department with non-life threatening injuries to Ben Taub and St. Joseph Hospitals. The train was derailed by the impact of the crash and the truck wedged on the patio of a restaurant.Bus service (a bus bridge) is in place to assist passengers between the Downtown Transit Center (1900 Main) to UH-Downtown stations. This service will be in place until rail operations are restored for that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Gotta love those drunk drivers... ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 How many is that for the year? 26? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skwatra Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Yesterday there was a train stopped at St Joseph and Main and they were rerouting traffic, right around 5pm. good timing. Smoke in trainmore details on this morning's accident:dump truck train collision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Threads merged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 lol, was going to say, this probably was a dump truck being used for construction of one of the light rail lines, and it was!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Broadfoot Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Two buss collided the other day injuring 9. If Metro crashes all of theIr assets then what will be left of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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