A man was hit by a tram on Tuesday morning, according to the police. The collision happened near the netball courts in Southwell Park.
The collision happened at about 9am and it's believed that the injured person was walking. No vehicles other than the tram were thought to be involved.
The extent of his injuries was not known.
Police said two lanes on Northbourne Avenue were closed, one northbound and the other southbound.
It's not the first time it's happened. In 2024, a pedestrian clashed with the windscreen of a tram near the same spot.
In that incident, the tram's laminated windscreen glass was smashed in on the left side near the front pillar, providing a physical indication of how heavy the impact had been.
A witness said that just seconds before the impact, the tram driver "hit the horn pretty hard".
Two years before that, a pedestrian was taken to hospital in a serious condition after he was hit. That incident was at the intersection of Northbourne Avenue and Barry Drive.
When the service was set up, there were fears cars and trams would collide given vehicles had to cross the dedicated corridors and may become "stranded" at intersections when normal vehicular traffic becomes banked up.
The general manager of Canberra Metro operations, Tilo Franz, said at the time that safety around the light rail was critical, due to the large size of the vehicles.
"Light rail vehicles can travel at up to 70km/h through an intersection and it needs longer to brake because it has steel wheels on a steel track, and it needs a longer distance than a car," he said.
Every August during Rail Safety Week, police and Transport Canberra get together to co-promote safer pedestrian practice around trams.
Pedestrians are asked to look both ways and only cross the tracks at designated crossings, to "pay attention and stay alert around LRVs [light rail vehicles], that "headphones, reading, texting or taking photos or selfies can put you at risk", and to "take care with pram wheels or wheelchairs when crossing the tracks".
