DC Metro Collision

[Anonymous]

Live streaming coverage is also available at:

http://www.wjfkfm.com/

[Anonymous]

Local Television out of DC just announced that the death toll from the Metro accident is now 6.

 

[Anonymous]

Here is continuing live coverage of the Washington Metro accident:

http://www.nbcwashington.com/

http://www.wjla.com/

http://www.wusa9.com/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

[Awesome!]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_re_us/us_dc_metro_train_derailment

I hope there's wasn't any texting!

[tomikawaTT]

Just saw the latest video on local news.  It looks as if one car pushed into another, with the upper shell of the one wrapped around a reasonably intact car below.  Not visible, what happened to the interiors of both cars.

If those cars were anywhere near filled to capacity, there will probably be many more dead recovered (the official count is now four.)  The newscaster said that they had a mass casualty event, with no estimate of what the total might be.

It's way too early to try to figure out what happened - or didn't happen when it was supposed to.  All we can do is mourn the dead and pray that the injured will make full, rapid recoveries.  Later we can try to make sense of whatever materiel or human failure was involved, and what has to be done to drastically reduce the possibility of a repeat.

Chuck

 

[Phoebe Vet]

It was on the national news.  NBC had video of it at about 6:15 PM.

I just rode that line a few weeks ago.

[CrazyDelmar]

 News Source.

WASHINGTON – Two Metro transit trains collided at the height of the Monday evening rush hour, killing at least two people and severely injuring others as cars of one train jackknifed into the air and fell atop the other. District of Columbia fire spokesman Alan Etter said crews were cutting apart the trains to get people out in what he described as a "mass casualty event".