Victims' families say they still don't trust the system. Train operators run the trains manually, and although Metro's current General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said last year that the automatic mode would return, Metro sources say there is no timetable for that to happen. The transit agency replaced the weaker 1000-series cars with 7000-cars, and, a decade later, automated control has never been fully reactivated. The 2009 crash, and a subsequent smoke incident at the L'Enfant Plaza station that killed an Alexandria woman, set off a cascade of safety warnings for Metro. That recommendation was made after a 2004 crash at Woodley Park that showed that those cars could not withstand strong impact. NTSB officials said in 2010 that, over the previous years, Metro's management had chosen not to implement federal safety recommendations such as the replacement or retrofitting of the 1000-series trains. "Metro was on a collision course long before this accident," Chair Deborah Hersman said. While the crash was caused by a technical problem, it was compounded by the transit system's lack of a safety culture, NTSB investigators said in 2010, a year after the crash. By the time McMillan saw the stopped train, it was too late.
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Second, the automatic system had Train 112 move forward at full speed. First, it showed that Train 214 was not stopped and on the tracks when it actually was. When Train 112 struck Train 214, Metro's train detection system failed in two ways, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The automatic control system failure couldn't have happened at a worse location, essentially in a blind spot. Credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Postįaulty Circuit, Lack of Safety Culture to Blame, NTSB Said
Rescue personnel transfer passengers after a Metro train rear-ended another on the Red Line.
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Archive Photos: Deadly DC Metro Train Crash She said there was no panic among the survivors.įirst responders had to use the "jaws of life" to pry open a wire fence along rail line to get to the train, Webber said. Sabrina Webber, a real estate agent who lived in the neighborhood, raced to the scene after hearing a loud boom like a "thunder crash" and then sirens. Then-Mayor Adrian Fenty called the crash an "unbelievable nightmare" for those on board. "Everybody who was on the scene that day, who saw the coverage, who knew what was going on, you will never get the images out of your head of one train that had literally climbed onto the top of another," News4 transportation reporter Adam Tuss said. Other victims included a young mom of two toddlers, and a couple married nearly 40 years. McMillan, of Springfield, Virginia, was among those killed in the crash. Metro crash on Jand how the event changed public transportation in the D.C.
Transportation reporter Adam Tuss revisits the events that led up to deadly D.C.
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