Elderly man trapped under cable car

By Tamara Barak, Bay City News Service

March 14, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - Fire officials are reporting that a senior citizen has been taken to the hospital after being struck and trapped underneath a motorized cable car in San Francisco's Chinatown.

The accident, on the corner of Stockton and Jackson streets, was reported just before 3 p.m., according to Lt. Mindy Talmadge of the San Francisco Fire Department.

"We responded to find a very elderly gentleman under the bus.

He was stabilized and en route to San Francisco General Hospital within about nine minutes," Talmadge said.

The investigation has been turned over to the San Francisco Police Department.

"There were witnesses, so police are collecting all that information," Talmadge said.

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