Metro News Release

For immediate release: February 12, 2010

Derailment at Farragut North Metrorail station: station reopened

Preliminary report: three suffer minor bumps and bruises

The Farragut North Metrorail station reopened at 12:11 p.m. today (Feb. 12) after a six-car Red Line train headed in the direction of Shady Grove Metrorail station, which derailed from a pocket track (side track) just after it serviced the Farragut North Metrorail station. There were three minor injuries of bumps and bruises reported. The incident took place at 10:13 a.m.

Trains will be restricted to a speed of 25 mph between Dupont Circle and Farragut North Metrorail stations while Metro officials investigate the incident.

Metro officials and local first responders are at the scene to investigate. Metro officials moved all customers to the rear four cars of the train. Those four cars then were separated from the front two cars to allow the four car train to move to the platform to unload the passengers. There were approximately 345 people on board the train.

The front wheels of train number 156’s lead car came off the tracks. The rail cars that comprised the train were 6096 (lead car), 6097, 1197, 1196, 6039 and 6038. The first two cars of the train (rail cars 6096 and 6097) remain in the pocket track. They are expected to be removed after the rail system closes tonight at midnight.

Metro officials notified the Tri-State Oversight Committee and the National Transportation Safety Board of the incident.

News release issued at 12:24 pm, February 12, 2010.