Seattle Times (RVP News Partner):
A collision between a Sound Transit light-rail train and a car has caused delays for Friday afternoon commuters going through Seattle’s Rainier Valley.
An agency alert called it “a minor incident” and forecast delays of 10-15 minutes, though after past collisions, delays have been somewhat longer than the initial guess.
Transit spokesman Bruce Gray said based on initial reports, it appears a motorist turned left into the path of a train going the same direction, in the median of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South near Othello Station, at about 4:20 p.m. Read more.
Last summer, a man was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries when police say he made an illegal turn at South Myrtle Street, and a light rail train plowed into the vehicle he was driving (above right).
Then last month, the Southbound lanes of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South were blocked at South Kenyon Street after a car struck a Sound Transit train at Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Elmgrove.
Photo/Don Pham, Northwest Vietnamese News
Related:
- 911 Log: Kid Robbed on #7, Another Car vs. Train in Othello, Rain-King Home Invasion, Etc. (3/11/10)
- Car vs. Train at MLK & Myrtle (6/29/09)
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You know, when we just had the MLK speedway before light rail, we never got Seattle Times and blog posts about the 345 accidents on MLK each year. (Not that we had the RVP back then)
I wonder if a comparison of then and now might be interesting.
Maybe we can just install a sign at the intersection with a photo of “last weeks accident”…
Alternate sign text: “Dumbsh!ts, no left turn ANYTIME.”
Heavy concentraton of dumbasses in that part of town.
Light Rail is the Valley’s Darwin
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