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Chattanooga Lookouts trolley crashes into Broad Street building near Tivoli on Tuesday evening

Staff File Photo / This view of Broad Street from the Tivoli Theatre to the Tennessee Aquarium was taken from the seventh floor of the EPB building in downtown Chattanooga.
Staff File Photo / This view of Broad Street from the Tivoli Theatre to the Tennessee Aquarium was taken from the seventh floor of the EPB building in downtown Chattanooga. Staff File Photo / This view of Broad Street from the Tivoli Theatre to the Tennessee Aquarium was taken from the seventh floor of the EPB building in downtown Chattanooga.

By La Shawn Pagán 2 min read

A Chattanooga Lookouts trolley crashed into a downtown Chattanooga building as the driver tried to stop a passenger from falling, according to Chattanooga police.

“The driver tried to catch the passenger, the bus ended up on the sidewalk and crashed,” Kevin West, the director of communications for the Chattanooga Police Department, said in an email to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

The crash occurred Tuesday evening.

West said the trolley was going north on Broad Street around 7 p.m. and turned left onto West Seventh Street when a passenger “lost his balance and started to fall over to the right side of the bus.”

He said there were two passengers on the trolley at the time.