Blue Line Train Collides With Car; 2 Women Injured
A car and a Metro Blue Line train collided near downtown Monday, injuring the driver and her passenger, authorities said.
The car turned in front of the oncoming train at 5:40 p.m. at the intersection of San Pedro Street and Washington Boulevard, witnesses told fire officials. The train crushed the passenger side of the vehicle.
The driver suffered minor injuries and the passenger suffered a broken arm and was treated at a local hospital, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. Both of the injured are women in their mid-20s, but their identities were not released.
“Both women, especially the passenger, are lucky to be alive,” Humphrey said.
No Blue Line passengers were injured. But passengers were taken off the Blue Line and put aboard buses, said Gary Wosk of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Wosk said the car made a left turn into the southbound train, which dragged the auto about 100 feet before stopping several hundred feet short of the San Pedro Street station.
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