Accident Town
When will it ever stop? Another bus & train collide in downtown Houston
If Houston doesn't watch it, the city is going to become national fodder for late-night talk show hosts again.
Forget H-Town. Or Clutch City.
How about Collision Central? Or the town where buses and trains cannot stay out of each other's way?
Another Metro bus and light rail train smacked into each other this afternoon. This crash — the second in less than six weeks — hurt 19 people, sending many of them to the hospital with minor injuries.
Has no one in Houston heard of a little concept called, The Right of Way?
Our gung-ho bus and rail drivers certainly don't seem to be in favor of yielding. Notorious NASCAR crash-causer Carl Edwards might as well be at the controls of these things, gunning for the slightest opening — because God knows, buses have their sterling on-time reputations to uphold.
While today's accident is still under investigation, a Feb. 8 collision between a Metro bus and light rail at the exact same intersection — Main and St. Joseph's Parkway — was determined to be the fault of the bus driver. A CultureMapper who happened to be at the scene of the February crash first reported that that bus ran a red light, which was later confirmed by Metro's video review of the incident .
Metro spokesperson Raequel Roberts told the Houston Chronicle that the agency is trying to determine if there's something "systematic" with all these incidents.
Gee, you think?
Wait until Jon Stewart gets ahold of this one.
