<p>[Two</a> dead, others hurt in DC rail transit collision - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_dc_metro_train_derailment]Two”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_dc_metro_train_derailment)</p>
<p>My d. will have an interesting time returning home tonight! (her work is on the Red Line, opposite end.)</p>
<p>Just heard from my dd who took another line tonight. Whew. Of all the worries I’ve had about her first summer in D.C. train crashes never entered my mind.</p>
<p>Thoughts and prayers to all the DC folks with commuter friends and loved ones.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting. I just got a hold of my sister and it wasn’t her train. She thought the train had left from Silver Spring and was headed into D.C.</p>
<p>S1 got home (via the red line) and didn’t know anything about it until I called him. I wonder what the cause was. Hope it wasn’t a case of texting while conducting or anything like that.</p>
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<p>Exactly what I was thinking!</p>
<p>Atleast 4 dead now.</p>
<p>My daughter rides the other end of the Red Line and was delayed by only a half hour getting home (and that may have been due to an unrelated minor problem on her portion of the line). Her job ends early – 4:30 p.m. The backups and delays got worse after that.</p>
<p>Of course they don’t know what caused the crash yet, but it sure looks like incompetence to me. How could a train rear-end another one at such a high speed? Whatever happened to signals?</p>
<p>Could be a mechanical malfunction; the moving train was of the oldest series of cars in the system.</p>
<p>mominva - glad to see your post. I know you live at the opposite end of DC, but I wasn’t sure where your hospital was. Just trying to account for everyone I know in the area.</p>
<p>I was on the other part of the Red Line today, between 4:00 and 4:30, on my way to the airport to come home. What an awful accident!</p>
<p>Can all our friends in the metro DC area check in, please? I know there are several. Owlice, are you out there?</p>
<p>Got an email from my S last night. I knew he wasn’t at the right end of DC, so I wasn’t worried. He just said he had a little trouble getting home from work, and making it to school on time, since all trains were shut down for a little while. Did eventually get a bus.</p>
<p>chintzy, hi! I’m fine; thank you for thinking of me!</p>
<p>What a terrible accident; the pictures are just awful. Reports around town are that people in the accident were pretty calm (considering) and helped each other out.</p>
<p>Hi Binx! Thanks for thinking of me.
Our hospital is just south of the accident site, right off two of the major roads that were closed. I was off yesterday but worked today and learned we only got a couple of late walk-in wounded.</p>