[junctionist]

The following photos are not mine, but it's one of those occurrences that are worth the time to see even in photos, because they're so rare. It happened at Spadina and Dundas at around 3 in the afternoon. One driver was taken to the hospital for neck injuries, passenger injuries were "minor" which included one man's cut hand. The rest of the story can be found here.

 

[billonlogan]

Thank gawd no one was seriously hurt. I wonder sometimes how streetcars stick to the rails on turns at high speed. Sometimes I watch the streetcars flying down Broadview Ave south of Danforth around Riverdale Park and wonder if one day one will slip off the rails. They seem to be going alot faster since the rail replacement a couple years ago.

 

[Zephyr]

Streetcar collisions happen all the time, just that Toronto does not have a recent history of them.

I've seen them firsthand in Lisbon and San Francisco. If you are a film buff, you might recall the recreation of a streetcar crash made in Barry Levinson's film Avalon. That streetcar derailed when turning a corner, and eventually crushed a car and exploded a petrol station, somewhere in Baltimore in the 1950s. Mr. Levinson was remembering his own past, through this fictional story (one in his personal trilogy that includes Diner and Tin Men). As I understand it, although I have no proof, Mr. Levinson's fictional streetcar crash was based on an actual event that took place in that area.