A 40-year-old deaf woman was struck by a Light Rail train Friday night at South Howard and West Camden streets, a Maryland Transit Administration spokesman said.
The unidentified woman was standing near the Convention Center stop with a companion at about 8:20 p.m. when she stepped out in front of the northbound train, said Terry Owens, spokesman with the Maryland Transit Administration. He said the train operator sounded the horn, but the woman did not hear it and she did not see the train because she had her back to it.
The women was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma for non-life-threatening head injuries, Owens said.
He said light rail service was forced down to one lane after the accident, but those lanes were reopened after the scene was cleared shortly after 10 p.m.
The accident remains under investigation by the MTA police, Owens said.