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DC area Kossacks: avoid Metro’s Red Line this evening. A tragic accident has claimed at least two lives and injured dozens near the Washington DC-Maryland border. Around 5 p.m., two trains collided on the Red Line between Fort Totten and Takoma Park stations. One train is sitting on top of another train and this is described as a “mass casualty event.” The entire train system is delayed and automobile traffic is being rerouted on New Hampshire Avenue and other area streets. Right now, our local NBC station is reporting that the FBI is on scene “to merely offer assistance.” There is no evidence that this is a terror attack. Sources: http://www.dailykos.
Nine fatalities have been confirmed in the worst accident in the history of Washington’s Metro subway system, authorities said Tuesday morning. The updated casualty count came after rescue workers toiled through the night and into daylight this morning near the D.C.-Maryland line, where a Metro train rear-ended a stopped train during Monday evening’s rush hour. A spokeswoman for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which operates Metro, confirmed shortly after 10:30 a.m. that the death toll had reached nine. Among the dead was the operator of the train that crashed into the stopped train. Jeanice McMillan, 42, of Springfield, Va., had been a Metro train operator since 2007. Identities of the remaining victims have not been released. Other passengers who were killed were Mary Doolittle, 59, of northwest Washington; Ana Fernandez, 40, of Hyattsville; Dennis Hawkins, 64, of southeast Washington and Lavonda King, 23, of northeast D.C. The four victims ranged in age from 23 t
Jeanice McMillan, 42, was driving the train that rammed another one, and was among the nine people confirmed dead in the crash. The Springfield resident had worked for Metro since January 2007. Metro said she started operating trains in December 2008. She was a Metro bus driver before that. Joanne Harrison, who lives in an apartment across the hall, said McMillan is survived by a son, Jordan, who is in college. Harrison said McMillan “had a straight head on her shoulders” and would have done everything in her power to stop the train if she could have. She said McMillan worked for the U.S. Postal Service and attended nursing school before getting a job at Metro. “She loved the train,” Vernard McMillan said. “She just loved working for Metro period. She loved the job.” Sources: http://www.nbcwashington.
