Narrative:

During landing roll-out on runway 14R at ord; tower instructed us to 'expedite' exit from the runway 'at tango 9' high-speed exit. As we exited at T9' per instructions; an aircraft taxiing toward us on T and just clear of runway 28 still had its landing lights on (presumably because it had just taxied off runway 28). Its lights temporarily blinded me so that I lost my peripheral vision in the darkness just as we were exiting on T9. As we approached T on T9; my first officer emphatically called my attention to an rj taxiing southeast-bound on T and rapidly approaching the intersection of T9 and T. The rj at that moment was off to my left; but taxiing quite briskly. Their position relative to our aircraft was such that they could have; and should have; seen us unless they also happened to be blinded by the same set of landing lights on that other aircraft.immediately upon hearing my first officer's call; I made a heavy brake application to avert a collision; bringing our aircraft to a quick stop. The rj did not appear to slow down and just kept taxiing right past us. I was amazed that its crew didn't slow or stop and can only hope it was because they never saw us. Even though we stopped just short of taxiway T; I believe the tail of our aircraft was still on the runway side of the yellow stop line for runway 14R; thus; we were not yet clear of 14R.the high-speed exits off of runway 14R are all quite short taxiways. In spite of my heavy brake application; we came within about 15 ft of colliding with the other aircraft. Needless to say; we were stunned that we had just been asked to 'expedite' off a runway only to discover a conflict so close to the runway we had just left.after gate arrival I called ord tower and inquired as to the cause of this near collision. I was told that training was in progress on that ground control position and that ord ground control had erred by not instructing the rj to hold short of T9. He also informed me that they would be taking corrective action with the ATC personnel involved.I am unaware of anything we could have done to avert this near-collision and I am unaware of anything on our part that caused or contributed to this event. It is my understanding that a clearance to exit a runway means that I can taxi off the runway at least far enough to clear the runway. Had I immediately stopped the aircraft using normal braking force; as a precaution; a collision would have resulted nonetheless. Only a very heavy brake application avoided the collision.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B737-800 came within fifteen feet of a taxiing regional jet when it expedited off the landing runway at ORD. In a subsequent conversation with the Tower the Captain was advised that the presence of the RJ was the result of faulty handling by a Ground Controller trainee.

Narrative: During landing roll-out on Runway 14R at ORD; Tower instructed us to 'expedite' exit from the runway 'at Tango 9' high-speed exit. As we exited at T9' per instructions; an aircraft taxiing toward us on T and just clear of Runway 28 still had its landing lights on (presumably because it had just taxied off Runway 28). Its lights temporarily blinded me so that I lost my peripheral vision in the darkness just as we were exiting on T9. As we approached T on T9; my First Officer emphatically called my attention to an RJ taxiing southeast-bound on T and rapidly approaching the intersection of T9 and T. The RJ at that moment was off to my left; but taxiing quite briskly. Their position relative to our aircraft was such that they could have; and should have; seen us unless they also happened to be blinded by the same set of landing lights on that other aircraft.Immediately upon hearing my First Officer's call; I made a heavy brake application to avert a collision; bringing our aircraft to a quick stop. The RJ did not appear to slow down and just kept taxiing right past us. I was amazed that its crew didn't slow or stop and can only hope it was because they never saw us. Even though we stopped just short of Taxiway T; I believe the tail of our aircraft was still on the runway side of the yellow stop line for Runway 14R; thus; we were not yet clear of 14R.The high-speed exits off of Runway 14R are all quite short taxiways. In spite of my heavy brake application; we came within about 15 FT of colliding with the other aircraft. Needless to say; we were stunned that we had just been asked to 'expedite' off a runway only to discover a conflict so close to the runway we had just left.After gate arrival I called ORD Tower and inquired as to the cause of this near collision. I was told that training was in progress on that Ground Control position and that ORD Ground Control had erred by not instructing the RJ to hold short of T9. He also informed me that they would be taking corrective action with the ATC personnel involved.I am unaware of anything we could have done to avert this near-collision and I am unaware of anything on our part that caused or contributed to this event. It is my understanding that a clearance to exit a runway means that I can taxi off the runway at least far enough to clear the runway. Had I immediately stopped the aircraft using normal braking force; as a precaution; a collision would have resulted nonetheless. Only a very heavy brake application avoided the collision.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.