Blue Line versus bus crash update

Marc Littman, an MTA spokesman, said the agency's internal investigation was continuing into the collision Friday morning between a bus and a Blue Line train on Washington Boulevard that slightly injured 15 people on the train.

Littman said that videotapes from cameras in front of the train and bus were being reviewed and that the MTA had 60 days to complete its investigation. The bus, he said, had been in the shop for maintenance and was being road-tested by a mechanic. The Los Angeles Police Department's central traffic office is also investigating, according to the LAPD media office.

--Steve Hymon

Comments

[Ken Alpern]

Thanks for staying on top of this, Steve. The timing of this was just terrible after the Metrolink disaster, and it makes Southern California mass transit look like a joke.

I hope there's a reasonable investigation, but if there's disciplinary action (or even legal prosecution for criminal negligence) that's in order, then this needs to be carried out.

There are enough bozos who either drive in front of, or jump in front of, moving trains that we don't need to have our mass transit vehicles slam into each other as well!