On January 7, 2007, about 3:45 p.m. eastern standard time,
northbound Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Metrorail
train 504 derailed one car as the train traversed a crossover from
track 2 to track 1. The accident occurred in an underground tunnel
on the Metrorail Green Line near the Mt. Vernon Square 7th
Street-Convention Center station at chain marker E2 23+28. The
train was traveling about 18 mph as it approached the station. The
train consisted of six cars. The fifth car from the head end of the
train derailed. About 80 passengers were on board at the time of
the accident. Twenty-three passengers were transported to local
hospitals for treatment and released. Emergency response personnel
from Washington, D.C., provided the on-scene treatment and
transportation of the injured passengers.
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