How many people were injured in the DC Metro train when the two collide?
At least seven people died and 70 were injured when a Washington DC metro train crashed into the rear of another at the height of the city’s evening rush hour yesterday. One of the trains had stopped and was waiting for another train ahead to move out of a station when the second train crashed into it from behind. The front end of the second train jack-knifed into the air and fell on top of the first. The woman driver of the rear train was among those killed. Officials revised down the number of confirmed dead from earlier reports of nine. The city’s mayor, Adrian Fenty, told a news conference that two people were in a critical but stable condition in local hospitals. Sources: http://www.guardian.co.
The subway train that plowed into another, causing a crash that killed seven and injured scores of others in the nation’s capital, was part of an aging fleet that federal officials had sought to phase out due to safety concerns, an investigator said today. But the Metrorail transit system “was not able to do what we asked them to do,” and the old trains kept running despite the 2006 warnings, said Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board. The rush-hour crash sent more than 70 people to area hospitals and killed at least seven people. The three-decades-old Metro system, a pride of the District of Colombia tourism industry, shuttles tourists and local commuters from Washington to Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Sources: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-train-crash23-2009jun23,0,1754691.
Officials in Washington, D.C. say six people have been killed and about 70 injured in a collision of two subway trains during the late afternoon rush hour. Washington’s Mayor Adrian Fenty says the casualty toll would make the accident the deadliest in the history of Washington’s public subway system. The general manager of the subway system, John Catoe, says a train moving at an unknown speed hit a stationary train Monday near a subway station, Fort Totten, on the northeastern edge of Washington close to the state of Maryland. Sources: http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-23-voa3.
