A man was struck and killed Wednesday morning on Metro’s Orange line.
A spokeswoman with the transit agency said the unidentified man was on the tracks when he was hit about 11:20 a.m., when he was struck by a six-car train that was pulling into the station. The train was bound for New Carrollton, Md.
Locally, the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission operates two OmniRide buses which ferry passengers to and from the West Falls Church station. Those buses, Linton Hall and Manassas Metro Direct, carry commuters from Prince William County and connect them to the Orange line.
Trains passing through the station were sharing a single track so they could pass the site of the accident, stated a Metro spokeswoman.
The incident comes just three days after a 63-year-old Metro track employee was struck and killed on the Orange line Sunday night. That man, who had worked at Metro since 1990, was struck halfway between the Dunn Lorring and Vienna stations, about 10 p.m.
The Silver Spring, Md. man was using a ballast machine on the track, used to spread gravel-like materials on the track bed and in-between the rails. He was killed by the machine.
After that incident the transit agency initiated its “safety stand down” and curtailed the scheduled replacement of track ties along the rail system. Metro managers were also told to review safety procedures with their employees and safety officials were told to step up inspections at all track work sites throughout the system.
Work to make circuit repairs on the Red line, between Brookland and Takoma stations – the site of the deadliest Metro crash in the agency’s 33-year-history - was not postponed, according to a Metro press release.
The June crash killed nine and injured 76 people.
Staff writer Uriah A. Kiser can be reached at 703-878-8065.
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