Woman dies on DC Metro

[Bill the Cat]

Source: http://www.nbcwashington.com/traffic/transit/1-Dead-Dozens-Hospitalized-After-Deadly-Metro-Incident-288373561.html

The woman killed when thick black smoke filled a Metro tunnel Monday was a 61-year-old from Alexandria, a mother and beloved co-worker who had just won her company's employee of the year award.

Carol Inman Glover, 61, was a mother of two sons and a grandmother of one granddaughter. She had worked at DKW Communications Inc. for the past 18 months, and won the award just last month.

Glover, a resident of Alexandria, Virginia, died after an electrical malfunction filled a busy subway station with thick, black smoke and left many riders stranded after their train stopped in a tunnel. The incident sent nearly 70 other people to the hospital. Two people had been in critical condition, but Metro Police announced they have been upgraded.

Around 3:20 p.m. Monday, a Virginia-bound Yellow Line train left downtown D.C.'s L'Enfant Plaza station -- one of the system's busiest stations -- when it stopped about 800 feet beyond the platform due to electrical arcing from the high-voltage third rail.

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I was in L'Enfant Plaza this past Saturday, and 2 days later, this happened.

[One Bad Pig]

Thanks for posting this. You should'a told me you were in the area! I travel through L'Enfant Plaza twice a day. It's the busiest station in the DC Metro system. I was inconvenienced by having to take less convenient travel means to get back to my house, but nothing like those who got stuck on the train.

[Bill the Cat]

Thanks for posting this. You should'a told me you were in the area! I travel through L'Enfant Plaza twice a day. It's the busiest station in the DC Metro system. I was inconvenienced by having to take less convenient travel means to get back to my house, but nothing like those who got stuck on the train.

Yeah, I had thought about contacting you, but that was also the day I got the call on my mom, so my mind wasn't 100%. Deanna and the kids would have loved to see you again.