KC Streetcar damaged after crash with box truck near UMKC campus

A Kansas City Streetcar was damaged in a crash near its University of Missouri — Kansas City stop Saturday morning, a KC Street Car Authority spokesperson said.

The crash happened around 11:20 a.m. at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Brookside Boulevard.

A box truck drove north on Brookside Boulevard when it swerved around a vehicle, said Donna Mandelbaum, a spokesperson with the KC Streetcar Authority, in an email. The truck then allegedly made a right turn at a red light on MLK Jr. Boulevard and collided with the streetcar, Mandelbaum said.

According to witnesses at the scene, it appeared that the box truck “blew past a red light” before the collision…

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