An MBTA trolley operator was sending a text message to his girl-friend when he rear-ended a trolley last night in a crash that injured dozens of passengers and created a surreal scene as emergency workers set up a makeshift emergency area next to a circus tent before taking the wounded to hospitals.
ATTLEBORO -- The trolley operator who officials believe was texting on his cellphone before a crash on the Green Line Friday night was a 24-year-old man from Attleboro, an official said.
The operator's name was Aiden Quinn, said an MBTA official who was briefed on the accident. MBTA payroll records listed Quinn as a "streetcar motorperson," with a 2008 gross pay of $30,006. No one answered the door at Quinn's home tonight