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Crunch Hitness
Torontoist reader Pete submitted this image he took last night following the Interior Design Show at the CNE. We don’t yet know details on how it happened, but there were apparently no casualties.
With all the complaining about the concrete barriers on St. Clair and the tangle of vehicles on Spadina, this is a good reminder how cars and streetcars don’t always play well together. Streetcars obviously can’t stop on a dime, nor can they swerve away from something in their path. Many drivers think they can beat the TTC vehicle across the tracks but then either misjudge the speed of the streetcar or find too much oncoming traffic to continue. Factor-in slippery roads, cell phones and other general distractions and you have a recipe for danger.
TTC drivers are trained to help in incidents of emergency and all buses and streetcars are equipped with an emergency communication system. The TTC doesn’t publicly report on the frequency of vehicle collisions or accidents.
This photo is also featured in the Torontoist Flickr Pool.