Car Hits Ambulance Carrying METRORail Victim

[turlough]

ALL HOUSTON RESIDENTCES STAY WAY FROM THE TRAIN TRACKS

5:27 p.m. CST March 17, 2004 - An ambulance transporting a pedestrian struck by a METRORail train near Reliant Park is involved in an accident as it transported the victim to a hospital Wednesday afternoon, News2Houston reported.

News2Houston reported a man was struck by the light-rail train around 4:05 p.m. in the 8200 block of Fannin near Holly Hall.

A crew with the Houston Fire Department treated the victim at the scene. The victim reportedly suffered a broken hand and some cuts. He was transported to a nearby hospital.

However, as the ambulance was en route to hospital, a woman driver collided with the emergency vehicle around 4:25 p.m. only a few blocks away.

Officials said the 50- to 60-year-old train accident victim did not receive any new injuries from this accident.

A new ambulance showed up at the scene and transported the mother and her three children as a precaution.

A witness told officials that the woman who collided with the ambulance was trying to run a red light.

METRO officials told News2Houston the pedestrian struck by the light-rail train reportedly stepped in front of the train illegally.

This is the 26th accident involving a METRORail train since the system began operating in November. This is the first accident involving a pedestrian, according to METRO officials.

[BrandonTO416]

What is the deal with Houston and car crashes with its light rail cars?? And is the new MetroRail system absent of its own right-of-way for the most part???

[Cotuit]

Oh my maude! I saw video of this guy getting hit on the news. They said, he said his hearing aid wasn't working. So you wander aimlessly across active trolley tracks?!?!?

Pictures I've seen of the trains show them in their own centre median.