{"id":938,"date":"2009-12-09T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T00:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=938"},"modified":"2011-12-10T21:58:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T01:58:27","slug":"video_shows_light_rail_train_crushing_van_in_pheonix_arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2009\/12\/video_shows_light_rail_train_crushing_van_in_pheonix_arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Rail 1 – Van 0 Caught on Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWow, this match wasn’t even close. An Arizona driver runs a red rail crossing signal and gets plowed into by an oncoming commuter train. Her van is then dragged… well, I don’t need to give you the play-by-play. The entire violent fiasco was caught on the train’s onboard surveillance camera! Watch the video…<\/a><\/p>\n

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And this is interesting, according to local authorities, this crash marked the 51st time a light rail train had been hit this year in Phoenix\/Tempe\/Mesa and all 51 crashes were caused by inattentive drivers. No METRO light rail drivers have been cited and as of 12\/05 the driver of this van had not yet officially been cited. Hmmm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, this match wasn’t even close. An Arizona driver runs a red rail crossing signal and gets plowed into by an oncoming commuter train. Her van is then dragged… well, I don’t need to give you the play-by-play. The entire violent fiasco was caught on the train’s onboard surveillance camera! Watch the video…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[460,311,1075],"tags":[523,334,46,105,522,524,104,527,521,526,89,21,45,37,525],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-subways-around-the-globe","category-trainrailroad-stuff","category-video-2","tag-arizona","tag-light-rail-transit","tag-light-rail","tag-mass-transit","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-az","tag-public-transportation","tag-rail-crash","tag-railroad-crossing","tag-surveillance-video","tag-tracks","tag-traffic","tag-train","tag-transportation","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}