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Article: Light-rail train, car collide; Motorist suffers minor injuries; Third incident since Sound Transit testing began.(NWTuesday)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2009
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Byline: Mike Lindblom and Phillip Lucas; Seattle Times staff reporters
A motorist received minor injuries Monday in a collision with a Sound Transit light-rail train in Rainier Valley, the third incident since frequent train testing began there this spring.
The crash happened just after 5 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Myrtle Street, next to the Othello light-rail station in Southeast Seattle.
Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray said the car was heading south and made a left turn, against a red light, from MLK Way onto Myrtle as the train traveled south alongside in the median of MLK.
The driver, a man in his 70s, ...