WMATA derailment injures twenty
A WMATA Green Line train derailed at the Mount Vernon Square station on Sunday. Twenty people were injured; one had a head injury.
That's four worker fatalities in fourteen months, the 2004 Woodley Park crash, the 2004 Silver Spring derailment, and the 2003 National Airport derailment, among many others, leading the Washington Post to decry that Safety Warnings Often Ignored at Metro.
It's absolutely imperative that incoming general manager John Catoe make safety his top priority. It's also imperative that Metro change its culture to identify and correct the systemic problems that lead to all these accidents, rather than setting up line employees to take the fall.
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massysett | 10:22 PM |
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