Yesterday’s Metro light-rail crash was, of course, captured on security video.
The jumpy video is silent, so you can’t hear the engineer’s exclamation when the dump truck pulls onto his tracks and there’s nothing he can do about. We’re going with “Fuuuuuuck” instead of “Oh, shit” here, but we could be wrong.
A second video shows a pedestrian making a mad dash to get out of the way of the two colliding vehicles, always a pleasant way to start the day.
The crash:
And the wake-up close call:
Steppin’ lively, sir.
This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2011.