Avoid the Red Line...

Smackette just called - said it's a disaster…

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Car Lands On Metro, MARC Tracks
Accident Blocks Trains In Silver Spring

POSTED: 3:42 p.m. EDT June 25, 2003
UPDATED: 4:02 p.m. EDT June 25, 2003

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Some Metro trains are delayed this evening after a car landed on the tracks near the Silver Spring Metro station.

The accident happened shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Investigators said the car crashed through a fence and crossed four MARC and Metro tracks. It finally came to a stop when it hit another fence. The car is still on the tracks.

Two people were in the car. One person was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. There is no report on any injuries for the second person.

The Red Line Metro train is not running between Fort Totten and Silver Spring. A temporary bus route has been set up to carry passengers between the stations.

METRO SAID THE DELAYS WILL LAST HOURS!

well its red line, but the other end…..

I bet the metro will run not much different to normal down this end…….

Originally posted by Andrew WK:
well its red line, but the other end…..

I bet the metro will run not much different to normal down this end…….

Brother, she works in the same place as you…she's been trying to get to Dupont for a half hour - of course as she put it, she doesn't have much of an option.

Thanks Smackie. Looks like perhaps I'll walk home from work today.

well thanks then Smackie, I know where she works, you didnt say she had been delayed though.

Normally if there is a problem down one end they get things working on the rest of the line pretty quickly……..

I think it would kill me to walk home.

Man, the one day of the week that I take the redline.