This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published December 09, 2009 and can be found here.
Wow, this match wasn't even close. An Arizona driver runs a red rail crossing signal and gets plowed into by an oncoming commuter train. Her van is then dragged... well, I don't need to give you the play-by-play. The entire violent fiasco was caught on the train's onboard surveillance camera! Watch the video...
And this is interesting, according to local authorities, this crash marked the 51st time a light rail train had been hit this year in Phoenix/Tempe/Mesa and all 51 crashes were caused by inattentive drivers. No METRO light rail drivers have been cited and as of 12/05 the driver of this van had not yet officially been cited. Hmmm?
