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D.C. prepares for probable cause of Metro crash

**FILE** Firefighters, police and members of the National Transportation Safety Board clean up wreckage from the June 23, 2009, Metro crash on the Red Line near Fort Totten. (The Washington Times)**FILE** Firefighters, police and members of the National Transportation Safety Board clean up wreckage from the June 23, 2009, Metro crash on the Red Line near Fort Totten. (The Washington Times)

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Associated Press

Monday, July 26, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington region will soon hear from the National Transportation Safety Board about what caused a Metrorail crash that killed nine people last summer.

The NTSB will hear from investigators during a daylong hearing Tuesday, then vote on the probable cause of the crash and recommendations to avoid a similar tragedy.

Metro says it is working to comply with recommendations the NTSB made in the months after the crash and it’s putting aside $30 million over three years to carry through on recommendations that may come out of the NTSB’s meeting Tuesday.

Eight passengers and a train operator were killed and dozens injured when a train slammed into another stopped on the tracks between the Fort Totten and Takoma stations in June 2009.

 

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