Sep
12
2008
4 Dead in Train Collision in Suburban Los Angeles
Posted by Crillmatic in Miscellaneous, Travel
Stewart Cook/Reuters
LOS ANGELES — A freight train collided with a rush-hour commuter train in suburban Los Angeles on Friday evening, killing four people and injuring dozens of others, many of them critically. The crash was potentially one of the worst in recent history in Southern California.
Firefighters, using large cranes and ladders, swarmed a toppled passenger car, smashing windows and frantically trying to extract injured passengers as a fire burned under the car of the Metrolink train. A spokeswoman for Metrolink said that roughly 350 people may have been on the late-day train. Read the rest of this entry »
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