Los Angeles train hits car on tracks and derails, 21 hurt

KFGO ^ | March 28, 2015

[QT3.14]

At least 21 people were hurt, two of them seriously, on Saturday when a Los Angeles commuter train struck a car that was crossing the tracks and derailed into a street near the University of Southern California campus.

A silver Hyundai Sonata was left crumpled and unrecognizable following the collision, according to a Reuters witness. The lead train car jumped the tracks, crashing through a metal fence and across a grass-covered median before coming to rest in the middle of Exposition Boulevard.

One person on the Metrolink train suffered serious injuries, the Los Angeles Fire Department said, and a person extricated from the car was in critical condition.

[QT3.14]

Darwin award wannabes

[QT3.14]

FOX reporting.

[Publius]

It was not a Metrolink commuter train. It was a light rail vehicle, i.e., a souped-up trolley, on the Expo Line.

Some journalists are too lazy to do simple research.

[C210N]

See, if they just had listened...

Desalinization plants don’t ram cars and then derail.

[kingu]

[Fresh Wind]

A silver Hyundai Sonata was left crumpled and unrecognizable..

Then how did they know it was a Hyundai Sonata?

[BenLurkin]

I can’t make out that lettering on the side of the trolley.

[Publius]

HEADS UP - WATCH FOR TRAIN

You're kidding, of course.

[nascarnation]

I think it says “Baraq for Caliph 2017”

[Publius]

Maybe it should have said, “DE TRAIN BE COMIN - WORD!”

[US_MilitaryRules]

Cool! Lets build faster ones! /s

[Fresh Wind]

It SHOULD say “PHONE DOWN - WATCH FOR TRAIN”

[Publius]

The maximum speed for that particular brand of light rail car is 60 mph, and there are only a few places on the line where it can get up to that speed. I don’t think that place was one of them.

[Secret Agent Man]

Wow all it takes is one little Hyundai Sonata.

[Carl Vehse]

Fresh Wind #6: "Then how did they know it was a Hyundai Sonata?"

Maybe the "Reuters witness"—whatever that means—noticed the make and model logo on a piece of the crumpled and unrecognizable car.

[Menehune56]

From Google Maps it looks like Exposition Blvd. in this area has two lanes of traffic each way separated by a median containing two sets of track. The crossovers appear to be controlled by stop lights. It would be nice if the article had a little more information on the circumstances. Did the car have the right of way? Was the driver cited or arrested? Were the traffic lights functioning?

[dfwgator]

Dumb ways to die.

[Publius]

The traffic lights are set for the trolley to have the right of way at these intersections. The driver of the Hyundai ignored the light.

[jmacusa]

I like your choice of High Ebonics. Out here on the East coast they favor the more vulgarized,Low Ebonics: "Train comin' bitch-- word yo!''.

[TXnMA]

Light passenger rail is the answer to all our transportation problems... </SARCASM>