Seven dead in D.C. Metro rail crash
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press
District of Columbia fire and emergency workers at the site of a rush-hour collision between two Metro transit trains in northeast Washington, D.C. on Monday.
A commuter train rear-ends another, ripping open cars in the system's worst accident in 33 years.
From Times Wire Services
6:26 AM PDT, June 23, 2009
Washington -- The subway train that plowed into another, causing a crash that killed seven and injured scores of others in the nation's capital, was part of an aging fleet that federal officials had sought to phase out due to safety concerns, an investigator said today.
But the Metrorail transit system "was not able to do what we asked them to do," and the old trains kept running despite the 2006 warnings, said Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
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