Muni crash video

[AsahinaKimi]

Source: SFgate.com

We've got the first, exclusive look at the city's video tape from Saturday's big Muni Metro crash.

More than 40 people were injured when a Metro light rail train slammed into the rear of a second train parked at the West Portal Station. The driver of the train has said he blacked out before the crash. He had just switched from automatic mode to manual shortly before.

The video - shot from cameras mounted at the station platform - shows both the high-impact crash and the response afterward by paramedics and other emergency crews. It does not clearly show the driver.

The official cause of the crash remains under investigation.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/matierandross/detail?entry_id=44091

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Simply amazing footage.. One of the comments was interesting. Had that light rail train not hit the other, it most likely would have barreled out of the station, and run over a few pedestrians as well as smashed into a few automobiles. There could have easily been deaths in this accident.

[Auggie]

1. Thanks, AsahinaKimi

Considering the amount of public transit in The City, crashes like that are a rare thing.

[Lautremont]

2. Wow. I thought nothing was going to budge that guy in white.

And then the train came.

[harry_pothead]

3. Crazy

I ride the muni streetcars all the time.

[cboy4]

4. Some of the quick jolting starts and stops are enough to send you

flying if you're not holding on if you don't have a seat.

I can understand why so many people were injured from the impact.