Disney monorail running again after vehicle hits support pil

[ericpabear]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/the-dail ... 4020.story

Disney monorail running again after vehicle hits support pillar

A SUV in the parking lot struck a support beam on the Epcot monorail line, shutting down the loop between Epcot and the main Magic Kingdom ticketing center. Blogger Amanda Tinney shot this photo and uploaded it to the Twitpic website. (Via Twitpic, Amanda Tinney / December 4, 2010)

5:46 p.m. EST, December 4, 2010
An SUV in the Epcot Center parking lot struck a monorail-support pillar Saturday afternoon, shutting down the monorail loop between Epcot and the main Magic Kingdom ticketing center for nearly an hour.
The incident happened about 3 p.m. Disney personnel shut down the monorail system for about 40 minutes until it was determined that there was no serious damage to the pillar, according to spokeswoman Andrea Finger.
There were no injuries.

[Future Guy]

How do you run into a monorail pylon? It's not like they're draped with invisibility cloaks, or cleverly painted to look as if they're not there.

[Wizzard419]

Probably wasn't paying attention to the road in front. I'm actually surprised it hadn't happened at DLR since we use to have the parking lot under the monorail tracks too.

[Len90]

http://www.wesh.com/r/26021077/detail.html

Seems like there is more to this story than somebody not paying attention.
I'm probably willing to bet that minor incidents with cars scraping the pillars have happened in the past due to people not paying attention.

[nicklesm17]

nice find len. i was thinking the same thing from the limited view pic. it looked to me like a little more speed was involved than they were admitting to in the first report.
when we do chef mickey's, we typically take the walk back to mk, not the monorail (it's a little faster than monorailing through all the resorts). here again is proof positive why here, or anwhere, a parking lot is a parking lot. watch out. even that particular day on this last trip i had to tell my my older one to slow down and stay close when we did the return walk. it's easy to fall out of reality at wdw (i won't even look at a newspaper box), but on certain things you have to stay real. parking lots, and downtown disney are good places to pay extra good attention. you never know.

[Mr.ToadWildRider]

Maybe someone played drinking around the world...and lost...

[momeja]

Maybe someone played drinking around the world...and lost...

LOL. My thought exactly.

[disneydew]

How do you run into a monorail pylon? It's not like they're draped with invisibility cloaks, or cleverly painted to look as if they're not there.

Dude, a lot of people are horrible at driving. And maybe they were texting.

[NaCler]

Well, remember this was right around the time of the MM meet-up... maybe it was a Mayhem Marauder causing trouble??? Maybe someone got into the RUM a little early??? No one will ever know, except for us...

[disneylizzy]

I'll bet they were texting