Red Line Derailment and Metro Derailment – A crowded Red Line Metro train heading from Farragut North toward Dupont Circle derailed Friday morning between the two stations, trapping 345 people underground for an hour and a half before they could be pulled to safety. The incident paralyzed the subway system and downtown street traffic on federal workers’ first morning back after a snowbound week.
In a press conference held Friday morning, Metro DC authorities told press the following:
“The [Farragut North] station is closed. All extra trains have been relocated along with iut was a six car train that detrailed. The passengers who were on the train have been move to other trains.
“No serious injuries have occurred. The station is closed. All trains have been moved to other stations.
The first two cars of a Metro Red Line train derailed on Friday at 10:13 a.m. as it was leaving the Farragut North station. Three minor injuries have been reported. The 345 passengers have been taken off of the two cars directly affected by the derailment and loaded onto the other four cars of the train.
The station and the streets around it all ha Over the past eight months, Metro has been bedeviled by a string of safety lapses and oversight failures. Five Metro workers have been killed on the tracks in the past seven months.
“The passenger injuries if any at all are not serious.”
Below is a breaking map of the Farragut North station in D.C.
