[PRCo] Re: Philly___Accident

[Boris Cefer]

Change the subject - A tar truck accident!

:-)

B

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> from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
>  
> 14 hurt when truck with hot tar collides with trolley
> 
> A truck carrying roofing equipment and towing a hot-tar kettle collided 
> with a SEPTA Route 13 trolley late yesterday afternoon in West 
> Philadelphia, resulting in injuries to 14 people. None of the injuries 
> was considered life-threatening, police said.
> 
> The crash occurred shortly after 5 p.m. at 48th Street and Chester 
> Avenue. Police and a witness said the truck ran through a stop sign at 
> high speed as it headed south on 48th, apparently trying to beat the 
> westbound trolley through the intersection. "He tries to swing around 
> [the trolley], but he couldn't make it," said witness Kalik Lance, 29, 
> who was sitting outside his apartment building at 4725 Chester when the 
> accident happened. The truck scraped the front of the trolley, then 
> flipped, taking the kettle along with it. At that point, hot tar spewed 
> against the front doors of the trolley, leaving a sheen of molten tar on 
> the street.
> 
> "Good thing those doors were closed," said a police sergeant 
> coordinating cleanup operations at the scene last night. SEPTA workers 
> using jackhammers had to forcibly cut the hardened tar from the track 
> rails while others using scrappers pried it from the street and from the 
> area between the rails.
> 
> Police said 65 passengers were on the trolley. They all walked off the 
> conveyance via the rear door, with the operator the last to leave. 
> Damage to the trolley, which included a broken head lamp, appeared 
> minor. It did not derail. No names were immediately released. It was 
> unclear whether citations would be filed.