How many fatalities have there been in the DC Metro crash, and any ideas about why?
WASHINGTON — Nine fatalities have been confirmed in the worst accident in the history of Washington’s Metro subway system, authorities said Tuesday morning. The updated casualty count came after rescue workers toiled through the night and into daylight this morning near the D.C.-Maryland line, where a Metro train rear-ended a stopped train during Monday evening’s rush hour. A spokeswoman for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which operates Metro, confirmed shortly after 10:30 a.m. that the death toll had reached nine. Among the dead was the operator of the train that crashed into the stopped train. Jeanice McMillan, 42, of Springfield, Va., had been a Metro train operator since 2007. Identities of the remaining victims have not been released. Sources: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/bal-dc-metro-train-crash0623,0,7458786.
