So how did the Red Line metro crash death toll jump to nine last night then fall back to seven this morning and then back up to nine? Last night, City Desk reported that three news outlets—WUSA9, WTOP, and WJLA—had confirmed that nine had died in the crash. WTOP cited the D.C. Fire Department as [...]
The death toll in the metro crash went back up to nine this morning. The number rose a few hours after Fenty insisted the number was seven at the morning press conference. The Washington Post reports:
"The number of people killed in last night's deadly Red Line crash has risen to nine, Metro's general manager said [...]
After work yesterday my wife saw my next door neighbor and asked if her son was all right. It was around 6 pm. He's a Metro driver, and works the Red Line. The crash had been all over local TV and new media for a while by then. My neighbor, however, hadn't heard about the [...]
Fire Chief Dennis Rubin with Adrian Fenty at a press conference yesterday
Fenty is expected to make remarks on the red line crash this morning at 8:00 a.m. We'll be live-blogging the press conference here.
8:01 a.m. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Fire Chief Dennis Rubin, Councilmember Jim Graham step up.
8:02 a.m. Fenty says he wants the country to [...]
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Check out these must see photos of yesterday's Metro crash aftermath. Read our interview we posted last night with a Deputy Fire Chief who was on the scene and ended up driving an ambulance. LL wonders: Are DC Metro cars safe? Need help with your commute? WMATA notes that red line service will be severely [...]
WUSA is reporting that nine people have died from this evening's Metro crash:
"9NEWS NOW has confirmed there are nine dead from the collision, and officials say there are 67 people injured. The Fire Department Chief said that up to six of those people sustained life-threatening injuries, another 14 have less threatening injuries and more than 50 people have [...]
At the early date, not quite four hours after this evening's deadly Red Line collision, there is little information to be had at this point about the type and age of the cars involved in the crash. [UPDATE, 9:05 P.M.: Metro General Manager John Catoe said in a press conference that the last car on [...]
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty: Reports scene as being "as horrific as you can imagine." Describes one train as being "almost squeezed completely together."
Confirms the figure of six fatalities, as previously reported by WJLA-TV. Calls that a "working number," meaning that the hospitals haven't been cleared and the scene hasn't been cleared. Fire officials continue [...]
From our correspondent-in-the-field Mike DeBonis:
Olga Bryant, who works at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, was on the rammed train this afternoon. She said that the train had been stopped for around 10 minutes and that the operator had reported that they were having some electrical difficulty. She says that the train's lights and the [...]
D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is talking right now about the accident. He started out with some boilerplate about working with Metro, and Metro working with the feds. Said the response from first responders was six minutes.
Fire Chief Dennis Rubin states that at first it was believed to be a minor incident. Then it [...]
NBC 4 Washington has the live video.
Mike DeBonis is calling in from the site of the Red Line collision near the Fort Totten station.
UPDATE 6:40 p.m.:
One Red Line train had been stopped on the tracks. It had just begun to move when it was struck from behind by a speeding train.
Brenda Payton was on the speeding train. "We just felt [...]
