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A three- car accident involving a trolley shut down Corpus Christi’s Harbor Bridge for several hours last month as officials and emergency crew forced a massive cleanup, reports say. According to reports, a Chevrolet with three people inside was in the right lane with a flat tire at the base of the bridge. A blue Chevrolet, also with three people inside, was coming down the bridge and attempted to change lanes to stay a safe distance from the stopped car….

College students at Youngstown State University’s Kilcawley House fell five stories when the elevator cable snapped and the car dropped into a free-fall into the basement, reports say. Apparently, the elevator was on its way up from the fourth floor when it stopped suddenly and proceeded half-way up to the fifth floor. The lights in the elevator flickered, smoke came through the vents — and then the cable apparently snapped and the elevator fell. Worse, after hearing the snap of…

A woman crossing corner of 40th and Spruce streets in Philadelphia was hit and injured recently by a trolley, reports say. The woman, who was unidentified other than what witnesses report as a black woman in her 60s at the 40th Street intersection shortly after 6 p.m. late last month, was evidently trying to catch the trolley when she slipped and the vehicle hit her. She was taken via ambulance to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she…

Reports say a person working on an elevator inside a South Miami Beach condominium were injured – one fatally – while working on the elevator. The accident occurred when an unidentified workman was inside the elevator as another climbed out of the top of the elevator, into the shaft to fix an unknown problem. The elevator then began to operate, causing the worker to be crushed between the shaft wall and the elevator between the fifth and sixth floors, reports…

A seven-year-old boy was injured when he ran out from between two cars into a moving trolley in Southwest Philadelphia last month, say reports. The unidentified youngster was transported to Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania with head, shoulder and leg injuries, and his condition was not immediately known. The accident occurred in the morning before school, about 7:50 a.m. on Chester Avenue at 54th Street in Kingsessing. Trolley service was suspended between 49th and 58th Streets while police conducted an investigation….