Onboard Video Shows Muni Driver Likely Asleep at the Wheel During Terrifying Incident By Duboce Park

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/10/onboard-video-shows-muni-driver-likely-asleep-at-the-wheel-during-terrifying-incident-by-duboce-park/Video from a runaway Muni light-rail incident next to Duboce Park on September 24 shows that the train operator likely fell asleep at the wheel, and had been hunched over barely awake several minutes earlier. The SFMTA has been less than forthcoming about what, exactly, happened during a frightening September 24 incident on an N-Judah train during the morning commute, in which a crowded train sped out of control out of the Sunset Tunnel at East Portal, past the Noe Street/Duboce Avenue stop, and into oncoming traffic on Duboce Avenue. The train was in the operator's, not a computer's, control while above-ground, and failed