Orange Line shut as train runs over woman

By adamg on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:56am

At Sullivan Square around 9 a.m.. Service has since been restored, according to mbta.com.

That makes three people hit by T trains in three days.

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Mudder scooped you...

By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:59am

...posting this news about 40 minutes before you. See below.

Incredible that we are suddenly having so many of these incidents. Is the warm weather causing people to be inattentive?

I can't see how inattention would have any bearing on this. It's not the green line, there's really no way to explain wandering in front of one as "inattention" and I don't think you could claim the conductor was inattentive when he hit her because people aren't supposed to be on the tracks.

Sorry, Mudder!

By adamg
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:06pm

I just didn't look.

A sad day on the Orange Line, too

By shane_curcuru@d...
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:05pm

R.I.P. an as-yet unidentified woman killed by an Orange Line train this morning.

Is it just me, or is something strange happening to the T this year? With this many accidents, trouble reports, and injuries, something feels not right. Or is this level of accidents common, and I just didn't notice it?

This post is ... about the

By Mediacrity
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:09pm

This post is ... about the orange line ... woman ...

And now my apologies to Shane

By adamg
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:11pm

Both Shane and Mudder posted about the incident separately. And I was trying to create a single thread about it. So blame me.

OHHHH. Okay. I kept clicking

By Mediacrity
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:17pm

OHHHH. Okay. I kept clicking links, thinking I had missed another orange line issue. It all makes sense now. And I'm glad there was only one death, for today at least.

NP, our posts were within one min of each other

By shane_curcuru@d...
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 1:39pm

Although I am wondering if I simply forgot to hit Submit, or if my second post about AP's only 5 words or you pay policy got deleted by a moderator. I know the AP story is a little bit old, but there's some great commentary about it this week, and I hadn't seen an earlier reference on UH.

It's relevant to much of our community, and I had been surprised I hadn't read about it here.

Of course, it's not terribly relevant to the family of the woman under the Orange Line today.

These deaths are not the T's fault

By Ron Newman
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 1:00pm

When people are on railroad or subway tracks where they do not belong, it's not the T's fault when bad things happen to them.

"Likely Suicide"

By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:10pm

Say coworkers who were around the station at the time.

I passed by there around 9:10 ... they were backing buses out of the busways onto Broadway and Washington streets because the firetrucks were blocking them and weren't moving anytime soon. I knew it must be bad.

Sad

By Othemts
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 1:13pm

I was on the inbound train from Forest Hills this morning and the train was stopped at NE Medical Center. The announcement came across as "a medical emergency at Sullivan Square," an interesting euphemism that I guess can cover everything from a child with a scrapped knee to terrorists releasing bioweapons. I ended up walking down Charles St to Charles MGH to transfer to the Red Line and continue my commute.

the devil made a pact with the MBTA

By Nelson
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 1:51pm

I think there is a devil sort of pact going on with the MBTA. so many sudden accidents lately does not have any other explanation. or probably T drivers are not given enough caffeine?

I blame legalized gay marriage

By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 1:59pm

[snark]Must be God's wrath on the people of Massachusetts.

Not sure what people from Iowa to Missouri must have done. [/snark]

Orange Line shut as train runs over woman

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