BART can’t seem to stay out of the news. With all the publicity, I can hear more money being withdrawn from the Bank of BART this time for the 11 passengers heading to the hospital because something went wrong on the tracks.

Reports indicate that 11 people suffered what appeared to be minor injuries when two BART trains collided at the 12th Street station in Oakland this afternoon.

Injured commuters were being taken on stretchers up escalators and elevators to ambulances waiting on Broadway, and BART officials said one wheelchair-bound passenger may have remained on a train at about 4 p.m.

The accident happened about 3 p.m. and involved one train headed to Richmond and another headed to Pittsburg-Bay Point, Johnson said.

One of the trains went off the rail, he said. Passengers managed to exit the trains and used a catwalk to return to the platform.

The trains were entering the 12th Street station when the collision happened, one coming from Lake Merritt and the other from West Oakland. The BART spokesman said the trains were moving slowly and that the impact probably felt like a “bump” to passengers.

- Looking at these pictures, it looks like more than a bump and looks very expensive.

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