Posts tagged muni accidents

• Video of West Portal Muni Light Rail Crash Released

  Claude Wyle | July 23, 2009 5:15 PM | 1 CommentSan Francisco, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  I've been keeping my readers updated on last Saturday's Muni Metro accident in the West Portal station, including today's earlier post about how switching to manual control before entering a station...

• New Safety Guidelines Implemented After Muni Accident

  Claude Wyle | July 24, 2009 7:15 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Many people have been injured or killed in public transit accidents over the last four months. The most current incident is last week’s crash here in San Francisco, in which nearly fifty...

• Disengaged Safeguards Focus of Muni Light Rail Crash

  Claude Wyle | July 23, 2009 10:59 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  It has been less than a week since two Muni Metro trains collided in San Francisco, injuring nearly fifty people. This crash has been only the latest in a series of accidents that have made the last...

• San Francisco Muni Light Rail Trains Collide

  Claude Wyle | July 21, 2009 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  In the last three months, nine people have been killed, and more than 170 injured in a series of crashes on the nation’s aging public transit systems. This horrific streak began in Boston, on...

• Fifty injured in San Francisco public transit accident.

  Claude Wyle | July 21, 2009 3:11 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  In the last three months, nine people have been killed, and more than 170 injured in a series of crashes on the nation’s aging public transit systems. This horrific streak began in Boston, on...

• Another San Francisco Muni Pedestrian Accident!

  Claude Wyle | December 13, 2007 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  I wish I was kidding, but I am sad to advise that the San Francisco MUNI has just been involved in its 18th pedestrian accident since this last July. Of these 18 reported MUNI pedestrian accidents, five have caused deaths. While this time, the MUNI bus did not kill anyone, the lady who was struck was taken to San Francisco General with personal injuries. Not surprisingly, although the accident...

• San Francisco Muni Bus Causes Pedestrian Accident

  Claude Wyle | October 08, 2007 7:13 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A San FranciscoMuni Bus struck a pedestrian early Tuesday morning, at the corner of 6th and Market Street, in San Francisco, California. Passengers on the bus yelled at the driver to stop, but it was too late; the bus ran right into the woman. The pedestrian survived this Muni Bus collision, but suffered severe personal injuries. Police are currently investigating the incident, which marks...

• Muni Riders Rescue Fellow Rider

  Claude Wyle | October 04, 2007 2:52 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Riders on the L-line streetcar witnessed horrific drama Tuesday night, as Muni riders saved a fellow rider from serious injuries. The drama began when the hand of an unknown rider became trapped in a Muni door. As the train accelerated, the man was dragged against the asphalt. Panicked passengers tried to alert the Muni driver. Fortunately, as the man was inches away from the wall of a...

• The Dangerous Streets of San Francisco

  Claude Wyle | September 28, 2007 11:14 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Whether you are driving in San Francisco, or trying to walk across a busy street, you will always be risking personal injuries or wrongful death. Although it's never really been easy to negotiate the Streets Of San Francisco, this year marks a troubling spike in motor vehicle collision deaths, and drivers and pedestrians should be extra careful. San Francisco is on a course for roughly one...

• Pedestrian Attorneys Seek Accountability From Muni

  Claude Wyle | September 03, 2007 4:46 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  In SAN FRANCISCO, the fourth victim of a Muni-involved pedestrian crash in two weeks was struck by a Muni train Tuesday. According to the Muni's own spokesperson, as of last week, San Francisco Muni vehicles had been involved in 956 accidents this year alone, 39 with pedestrians, five of which were fatal. San Francisco pedestrians are being run over at an astoundingly high rate, and The City...