LOS ANGELES — Trains were again running by the University of Southern California early Sunday, a day after a light-rail train slammed into a car injuring 21 people, including the train operator and the driver, who was in critical condition.
The Metro Expo Line train was heading east toward downtown shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday when authorities said it appeared the car’s 21-year-old driver didn’t see it and tried to make a left turn across the tracks from a major thoroughfare.
The car, a silver Hyundai, was all but demolished, and firefighters had to use the Jaws of Life to extricate the driver. The first two of the train’s four cars slightly derailed, but they remained upright.
The train’s operator Kenneth Goss, a 29-year Metro veteran in his mid-50s, was taken to the hospital in serious condition, but he was released and recuperating at home with family Saturday night, Metro spokesman Jose Ubaldo said.
