BART has "minor incident"

[CreekDog]

(02-03) 19:01 PST Oakland -- BART riders are facing 10-to-15 minute delays this evening on trains systemwide as the transit system recovers from a crash involving two trains beneath downtown Oakland.

The trains were heading toward the 12th Street/Oakland City Center station when one sideswiped another about 2:55 p.m. in the Oakland Wye, a junction beneath downtown, said Linton Johnson, a BART spokesman. He described it as a minor incident.

One of the trains had departed West Oakland station; the other was coming from Lake Merritt station.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/03/BAN015MOGK.DTL

[Richard Steele]

1. It would take Will Smith and a neuralizer to make that "a minor incident". nm

[laconicsax]

2. An incident?!?

[Starry Messenger]

3. I'm so glad I'm moving to be closer to work.

I could have been on that train. Yikes! I hope everyone is ok. That is OMFG scary!!

[davidinalameda]

4. I ride BART every day

these things don't worry me

it's a wonder these things aren't more common

I like the fact that a crash like this is the exception rather than the rule

[Triana]

5. oh sh*t. My bro rides the BART daily. He was prolly pissed.

Poor guy. His commute is terrible as is.

[NutmegYankee]

6. Looks like the train on the right was back just a tad too far.

And the train on the left sideswiped it going around on the side track. I can think of two people having a bad day.

[DCKit]

7. "Minor incident" = "nobody died"

Guess, for BART, it's like flying - "any landing you can walk away from."

Just how many years ago was shit like this simply unacceptable?

[omega minimo]

8. why is this a "thing" and the cuffed, face down black man shot=in-the-back is not?

:wtf:

[omega minimo]

9. why is this a "thing" and the cuffed, face down black man shot=in-the-back is not?

:wtf:

[democrank]

10. Good question, om.

[laconicsax]

12. The trains are painted white?

Best guess.

[CreekDog]

11. I'm kicking this...BART is not having a good year

if emblematic of its problems, having its spokesman call this a "minor incident" is truly a :wtf:

:eyes:

[chollybocker]

13. Ooops!! I broked a city!!

[originalpckelly]

14. They accidentally a minor incident a train.

Is this bad?