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Riders injured when Green Line trolley derails near Lechmere

By adamg on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 5:33pm
Derailed trolley

Not supposed to bend that way: Alexander Taylor was on the Community Path just after the derailment.

The Cambridge Fire Department reports several people suffered non-life-threatening injuries when a trolley came off the tracks near 10 Morgan Ave.

Photos. Aerial view.

Neighborhoods: 
Cambridge
Topics: 
The T
Free tagging: 
Green Line
Green Line Extension
Lechmere


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Comments

By sartreswaiter on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 5:48pm.

Looks like the trail derailed on the elevated viaduct. The edges of which appears to only be cordoned off by chain link and maybe a 1 foot high concrete curb. That definitely could have been a whole lot worse.

By anon on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 7:28pm.

Destination sign says "Union" but front of train went over switch heading to Medford/Tufts and the center set of wheels started heading toward Union.
Seems like either defective switch or "operator error"

By anon on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 6:59pm.

We all know that the minister of propaganda at the T will call this a minor derailment with minor injuries. A few more feet and this would have been a major disaster with dozens of passengers plunging off the viaduct to the street below.

By Alexander Taylor on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 7:07pm.

on the way home from work at 5:10 p.m. Saw multiple emergency service vehicles parked nearby, and many T officials and police up by the train. Didn't see any injured people; hopefully they had already been evacuated.