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Deadly Metro crash on Red Line in Suburban Maryland kills and injures dozens

Lives lost.  Other lives changed forever.  People going about their normal day.  Yesterday's terrible Metro crash on the Red Line in Suburban Maryland should not have happened.  Regardless of where the failure was, regardless of what the failure was, that crash should not have happened.

People are encouraged to rely on public transportation.  We hear it now more than ever.  But, we must feel safe when we totally commit our lives to the actions of others.  Some years ago, we represented a man who was a backseat passenger in a taxicab that was struck by a Metro bus.  Metro offered a very small amount, but the jury decided our client's losses and harms were worth over $495,000.

I am sure there will be lawsuits to hold the wrongdoers accountable for what happened yesterday.  Our sympathy goes out to those who lost loved ones and whose lives were changed yesterday by injury.  While we may not know today who was at fault in causing the collision of the two Metro rail cars, we know one thingn for sure:  The collision was not the fault of anyone who was injured or killed, nor was it a "freak accident."