A day after a pair of MBTA Green Line cars collided at the East Somerville station, sending five people to the hospital, shuttle buses were continuing to replace service on some parts of the line.
Shuttles were running on the line’s D and E branches between North Station in Boston, Union Square in Somerville and Medford/Tufts as of 5:15 a.m. Monday. It was not clear when regular service might resume.
Early Sunday morning, a train carrying five passengers hit an out-of-service train with no passengers aboard at East Somerville Station. One car on each of the two-car trains derailed as a result of the crash, according to the MBTA.
One passenger reported a neck injury and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the MBTA said. All four Green Line train operators involved in the crash were conscious and alert when they were taken to a hospital. They were later released.
“The MBTA apologizes to Green Line customers who are impacted by the disruption in service, following a late night incident involving two trains,” a spokesperson for the MBTA said in a statement Sunday morning.
The National Transportation Safety Board has responded to the incident and is investigating it, the MBTA said. The Federal Transit Administration was also notified of the incident.
The Sunday morning crash was the second incident involving a Green Line train in less than 6 months.
At 4:46 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2024, a two-car train carrying about 50 passengers and two crew members derailed just after leaving Lechmere Station. Seven passengers were brought to the hospital with minor injuries and the derailed train cars blocked both sides of the tracks.
An NTSB report concluded the train, which had two cars, entered a 10 mph zone while moving at 36 mph. The train then passed through a double red signal, which required the train to stop.
