ATLANTA -- The New York Mets might want to consider avoiding taxi cabs.
Manager Terry Collins was a passenger in a taxi that was involved in an accident around dinnertime during Thursday's day off in Atlanta, a team official confirmed. Collins did not require a trip to the hospital and was managing Friday's series opener against the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field with no apparent ill effects.
Collins apparently got off relatively easy compared with a pair of Mets from the past decade.
Reliever Duaner Sanchez's career never was the same after a July 31, 2006 accident as a taxi-cab passenger on Interstate 95 in Miami caused major shoulder damage.