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Six injured in Boston trolleys collision

30 November 2012 01:03 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Six passengers were injured and about 20 others have been evaluated after a trolley rear-ended another in the city of Boston on Thursday, said local authorities, APA reports.

The injured have been taken to the hospital, said Boston Fire Department in an official tweet.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) spokesman Joe Pesaturo said one trolley "bumped into another" shortly before noon in the Boylston Street station but there was no derailment and no visible damage. The driver of the second trolley was among the injured. None of the injuries were considered life-threatening, said local officials.

The station is now closed and rescue workers have set up a triage operation on the sidewalk at the station to evaluate the passengers.

One man got knocked out of the door onto the concrete platform ending up face down, when the collision took place in the outbound side of the station, the Boston Globe cited a witness as saying. The newspaper's reporter also saw one man at the scene with a bloody shirt being escorted by rescue workers as he held a cloth to his head.

On its website, the MBTA advised passengers to expect delays in service and use other stations to make downtown subway connections.

In early October this year, three people were injured when two trolleys collided in the city and "human error" was confirmed by the MBTA to be the cause of the accident.

Another driver of a Boston trolley admitted to investigators that he was texting a message at the time of a crash that happened in 2009 and injured 49 people.