Car Flips Onto Blue Line Tracks

Driver not injured after the car landed on the tracks at the Austin station

Blue Line service was shut down for about two hours early Friday morning after a car flipped over onto the train tracks at the Austin station.

The driver of a Jeep Grand Cherokee was taken to Loyola University Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries after she apparently crashed through a dead-end barrier and flipped the car.

The Jeep jumped the freight train tracks to land onto the CTA tracks at the Austin station.

Service was restored by 5:16 a.m. but experienced delays between Forest Park and  Pulaski/Congress stations, the Chicago Tribune reports.

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