HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Crews were able to remove a Jeep Wrangler from the METRORail tracks overpass after it was stuck for hours in the downtown Houston area.
On Wednesday morning, SkyEye spotted the bizarre scene near North Main Street that METRO officials said unfolded around 3:30 a.m.
SkyEye video shows the Jeep when it was blocking the METRORail Red Line that runs from Fannin South, in the NRG stadium area, to the Northline Transit Center, which is north of the North Loop I-610, and back.
ABC13 Pilot Don Armstrong said the driver didn’t appear to be nearby, and details on how this happened are unclear.
Crews used a crane to lift the Jeep off the overpass around 8 a.m.
METRO told Eyewitness News that they were single-tracking the Red Line trains in this area, allowing them to run northbound and southbound trains on shared tracks until the Jeep was removed from the tracks.
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