Google Reader brought some light rail (tram) news from my hometown of Odessa, Ukraine.
The following was loosely translated by me:
Light Rail Car Rams Five Vehicles: Tram Driver on the route #21 exceeded allowed speed limit and did not take into account driving conditions causing a collision. Five vehicles were involved, one person injured. (Link to Russian Source)
Just a few weeks before that, on June 29th, a light rail car derailed reportedly due to the deformation of the overheated rails. One passenger was killed, 8 others hospitalized including two kids 6 and 9 years old. (Russian-Language source). From several reports I gather that one female passenger was killed when a large piece of glass broken on impact cut her head off. She was possibly peaking through the window.
I am just sayin’!
4 responses so far ↓
1
May
// Jul 18, 2008 at 8:28 am
Yikes! If you were trying to make me afraid of light rail, it worked.
2
DLC
// Jul 18, 2008 at 8:39 am
What? No pictures of the severed head?
3
Burrowowl
// Jul 18, 2008 at 9:29 am
Meanwhile in the US, 42,642 people were killed in automobile accidents during the last year I could quickly find the numbers for (2006). Light rail could be the death of us all!
4
m.v.
// Jul 18, 2008 at 1:50 pm
DLC, they are plastinating the head right now, to satisfy your morbid curiosity.
May, shit happens everywhere, see stats in comment #3. I just think that KC’ plan to dump a billion dollars on this is just funny. And the images they invoke: nice glass-enclosed cars, beautiful and inviting stations. Why not throw in a severed head or two.
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