I’m watching this live on MyFoxDC and it looks like one Metro train rear ended the other...the front car of the second train is on top of the rear car of the lead train.
The train car on top rammed the the train underneath it. Looks like a switching problem...the train that got his was stopped...the train that rammed it was given the green light to continue on not knowing the other train was stopped.
MyFoxDC is reporting 4 dead now. And possibly 3-4 more bodies still inside.
On the red line between the Ft. Totten and the Takoma Park stations.
D.C.F.D. is at three alarms on this so far and calling it a mass casualty event.
Live video feed:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/subindex/live_video/news_now
70 wounded. 50 of them “walking wounded” 20 are what Chief Rubin described as “red tagged”
Those cars are about 20 feet long...and the car that was left has only about five feet of it left from the video I’ve seen the rest was crushed on impact.
The stopped train was waiting for another train to clear the Ft. Totten Station.
Prayers for the families.
Red-tagged...does that mean hopeless?