Metro News Release

For immediate release: May 14, 2006

Metro employee hit and killed by train; Red Line service restored

A Metro employee was hit and killed by a Red Line train earlier this morning at Dupont Circle station.

The employee, Jong Won Lee, 49, of Springfield, Va., was hit by a train heading in the direction of Glenmont around 10:16 this morning. Metro is working with the The National Transportation Safety Board’s regional office, which is leading the investigation.

Lee was hired by Metro in 1999. He was employed as an automatic train control technician, whose duties included working on track equipment. The last time a Metro employee died on the job was last October when a track worker was sideswiped by a train while picking up a piece of equipment. A safety panel ruled human error was the cause of that accident.

Dupont Circle and Woodley Park-Zoo-Adams Morgan stations reopened around 7:45 p.m. Metro ran shuttle bus service between Cleveland Park and Faragut North, and Red Line trains operated from Shady Grove to Cleveland Park and from Farragut North to Glenmont during the disruption.

News release issued on May 14, 2006.