Two trains collide in D.C.

[cycloneye]

The National Transportation Safety Board is on route to investigate this accident.



http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0609/634125.html

[lester]

used to catch the metro when I lived near DC..my prayers go out to the people affected

[OpieStorm]

6 people now dead.

How exactly does this happen?

[cycloneye]

Investigation starts to look for the cause of this accident.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31495088/ns/us_news-life/

[brunota2003]

at least one of the train operators is dead according to Fox News...sad, as he probably would of known what went wrong.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Most modern high speed subway systems that I have been on, excluding light rail, have either computer systems or mechanical trips that will stop a train if it runs a red light.

All signals have a "TRIP STOP" which is in the raised or "TRIPPING" position when the signal is RED. If the train operator tries to pass the signal the TRIP STOP will open a air valve called the "TRIP COCK" on the subway car's TRUCK (the TRUCK is the part of the car which holds the motors and wheels). The top of the tripper and the trip cock are painted yellow so that if they are engaged, there will be telltale strikemarks.

The open valve causes the train brakes to apply in EMERGENCY. The train brakes cannot be released again for about 20 seconds giving the train operator time to think about what he/she did wrong.

DC is a modern system. I can't believe they wouldn't build in automatic trips.

[HurricaneBill]

Death toll now up to 9.

[angelwing]

Pics from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8114415.stm

Prayers are going out for all affected

[Category 5]

I want to know how in the hell this happens. the investigation should be extremely interesting.

[HURAKAN]

[Category 5]

One of the trains was marked unsafe in 2006, hopefully they are to pay for this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_ ... derailment

[Stephanie]

I'm amazed that only 9 people died, especially with that one car on top of the other one. Something was supposed to work didn't.

[Nimbus]

The retired General that scrambled the jets in the 911 attack has been reported killed in this train crash..

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser ... in-dc.html

This was reported to have occurred near the Maryland DC border. Must have been a junction failure..

[somethingfunny]

The retired General that scrambled the jets in the 911 attack has been reported killed in this train crash..

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser ... in-dc.html

This was reported to have occurred near the Maryland DC border. Must have been a junction failure..

Great, the conspiracy nuts will be all over this.

[Nimbus]

Great, the conspiracy nuts will be all over this.

All the more to read.