[URBAN NOTE] On what happens when you drive a car up the Queens Quay streetcar tracks

[rfmcdonald]

blogTO has a brief item, Global News' David Shum has more.

The Toronto Transit Commission is vowing to look at new safety measures after an SUV drove 600 metres into a Toronto streetcar tunnel over the weekend.

TTC spokesman Brad Ross said the incident happened Sunday morning around 4:30 a.m. when the car with Alberta plates was found stuck on a streetcar track in the Queens Quay tunnel.

“At some point, you’d think the driver would have said, ‘Hmm, this ain’t right,'” quipped Ross on Twitter.

The TTC said the driver fled the scene and police are now investigating.

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Ross said the stuck vehicle forced delays on the 510 and 509 streetcar route all morning and into the afternoon.

The photo comes from Ross' Twitter account, here.