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A typical 5000-Series car similar to the stopped train in the crash at Branch Avenue Yard. The 1000-Series entered service in 1976 when the Metro system opened, and were refurbished and had their motors converted from DC to AC propulsion by Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie in the mid-1990s. In 2006, the NTSB cited the 1000-Series cars as ...
This accident led NTSB to recommend an intrusion detection warning system along this stretch of tracks. [ 62 ] In 1989, an Orange Line train hit a car that had fallen onto the tracks from an Interstate 66 overpass, though the train operator was able to apply the emergency brakes and slow the train to 5 mph at impact, resulting in no serious ...
This is a roster of the bus fleet of Metrobus, the fixed-route bus service run by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington, D.C. The Metrobus fleet is the sixth-largest bus fleet in the United States. It provides more than 130 million passenger trips per year in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
Metrobus is a bus service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Its fleet consists of 1,595 buses covering an area of 1,500 square miles (3,900 km 2) in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. [2] There are 269 bus routes serving 11,129 stops, including 2,554 bus shelters. [2]
Willis ran a red light and struck Fowler’s car at Findlay Street and Winchell Avenue at close to 1 a.m., a Metro accident report shows. ... Metro bus driver Deon Willis, charged with vehicular ...
An unidentified number of passengers were aboard the Metro E Line train when it collided with a bus just before noon near Exposition Park, resulting in minor injuries and interrupting train service.
Signaling and operation on the Washington Metro system involves train control, station identification, train signaling, signage, and train length. As with any working railroad, communication between train operators, dispatchers, station personnel and passengers is critical.
Images from the crash showed the bus windshield broken and hanging off the front bumper and the bus frame crumpled into the passenger side door. Metro bus crashes into pole, injuring 7 in Studio ...