5:31 PM: A woman was hospitalized after she tried to walk in between two cars of a San Francisco Municipal Railway light-rail vehicle in the city’s Inner Sunset neighborhood this afternoon and became trapped underneath, a police spokesman said.
The incident was reported at 1:23 p.m. at Second Avenue and Irving Street along Muni’s N-Judah line.
The woman was on the sidewalk with her dog at the intersection, where the Muni train had stopped, police spokesman Officer Carlos Manfredi said.
Instead of waiting for the train to pass, the woman tried to walk through a space between the two cars of the train but her dog was unable to jump over the part connecting the two train cars, Manfredi said.
At that point, the train began moving again, dragging the woman a short distance before its operator realized what was happening and stopped the vehicle, Manfredi said.
The woman was rescued from under the train and taken to San Francisco General Hospital with only scratches to her arm and leg, Muni spokesman Paul Rose said.
The dog was reportedly uninjured.
“She got very, very lucky,” Manfredi said. “If you get caught underneath those metal wheels, they’ll cut you in half.”
The accident disrupted N-Judah service in the area until about 3 p.m., Rose said. Bus shuttles were brought in to accommodate affected riders.
Dan McMenamin, Bay City News
3:02 PM: A woman who was briefly trapped under a San Francisco Municipal Railway N-Judah train this afternoon has been taken to a hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening, fire and Muni officials said.
The incident was reported at 1:23 p.m. at Second Avenue and Irving Street.
Fire department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said rescuers had to lift up the body of the light-rail vehicle to extricate the victim. The victim was freed at 1:47 p.m., she said.
Muni spokesman Paul Rose said the woman suffered scratches to her arm and leg and is expected to survive.
He declined to release additional details, saying police are investigating the incident.
Muni service through that area has been disrupted, and shuttle buses have been set up to accommodate riders, Rose said, but as of 3:05, the SFMTA was saying via Twitter that regular service had resumed.
Light rail service restored on N. Accident scene has cleared.
— SFMTA (@sfmta_muni) February 23, 2012
1:59 PM: Firefighters have rescued a person who was trapped under a San Francisco Municipal Railway N-Judah train in the city’s Inner Sunset neighborhood this afternoon, a fire department spokeswoman said.
The incident was reported at 1:23 p.m. at Second Avenue and Irving Street.
Fire department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said rescuers had to lift up the body of the light-rail vehicle to extricate the victim. The person was extricated at 1:47 p.m., she said.
She did not know the victim’s condition.
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