Posted on 06/22/2009 2:31:06 PM PDT by Pyro7480
CNN producer Vito Maggiolo saying "one train on top of each other."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I wonder if the engineer was text-messaging, like in that last train crash.
Prayers up for the victims, and all those waiting for them at home.
It’s never good when the trains “accordion”.
Mel Brooks said:
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die
People can be awfully callous when it's somebody else.
It may be a very long time before they know how many dead. Can’t pull the cars apart for fear of killing injured folks. We went thru this in our crash here in Ca.
Prayers Up.
People Dying = Not Funny. Pass it on.
But commuting in DC is an awful experience and those that do the daily on Metro (me), should be allowed some leeway regarding the dangers we face. I am serious. I've been doing the Metro thing for years and am amazed that we do not have more incidents/accidents. The quality of the drivers and the equipment is stunningly low and the potential for tragedy is high. I think in the Examiner this morning was an article saying Metro was submitting a $1.4B, yes, BILLION dollar budget. . .just to run the trains inside DC. This is a case of not getting what you pay for.
Thanks for the link. Prayers. It doesn’t look good.
Based on the facts: one train on top of the other, this is a multiple fatality event.
If that much steel is wrecked imagine what it did to the bodies inside.
Very similar to two Long Island Railroad accidents in the 1950s.
Here’s one ...
http://kewgardenshistory.com/ss-lirr-0650.html
http://www.richmondhillhistory.org/LIRRcrash.html
holy crap- do you see the live video ? That is one bizarre looking scene...
The googlemap satellite image cited higher up looks like a dogleg bend in the road, so it’s conceivable they couldn’t have seen each other, yes.
Apparently earlier in the day they were running a single track for awhile..
Oh god...that’s terrible. My son has quite a few friends living in DC right now. I am sure their parents are petrified.
WJLA reporter on scene for last 30 minutes reports ....
“a nurse was on train, she was thrown around, started halping after, one car sheared another car in half and very very serious injuries. Very very mangled scene, those not in frton impact cars were thorwn around, head cuts and injuries, a horrible scene, a horrible scene.”
DC Chapter ping to those living in the DC metro area
Yeesh. That's asking for trouble in a system as messed up as DC metro.
Here in Gotham, when they're reduced to one track, they tend to have one train ping-pong back and forth, just to be safe.
I left early and got to Huntington around 5:30....
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