‘Metro Track Repair Vehicle’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
A metro employee was killed this weekend as he was conducting maintenance on the orange line. The individual died on Sunday evening after he was struck by a piece of machinery that lays gravel along the tracks. Metro halted service between West Falls and Vienna after the accident, but service resumed this morning. WMATA can’t seem to catch a break, this summer.
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One Response to “Yet Another Metro Related Death”
September 10th, 2009 at 11:52 am
[...] just not been a good summer for Metro. Exactly a month ago, a Metro employee was killed while performing maintenance on the Orange line, and today, word comes that another Metro employee was struck by a train between Braddock Road and [...]