Crashed US train 'was to be phased out'
China Daily | Updated: 2009-06-24 07:56
Emergency workers at the site of a rush-hour collision between two Metro transit trains in northeast Washington DC on Monday. AP |
WASHINGTON: The subway train that plowed into another, causing a crash that killed seven and injured scores of others in Washington, was part of an ageing fleet that federal regulators had recommended three years ago be phased out or retrofitted, a safety investigator said yesterday.
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