# Metrolink train crash - LA/Ventura Dopers check in here
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrolink-train-crash-la-ventura-dopers-check-in-here/463375
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 13, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrolink-train-crash-la-ventura-dopers-check-in-here/463375 "2008-09-13T01:14:34Z")
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrolink-train-crash-la-ventura-dopers-check-in-here/463375/1 "2008-09-13T01:14:34Z")
A freight train and [Metrolink](http://laist.com/2008/09/12/2_dead_in_metrolinkfreight_train_de.php) train no. 111 (to Moorpark) collided this afternoon. There are conflicting reports as to what has happened, and a lot of people are predicting the collision to be worse than the 2005 crash. Right now I’m seeing reports of 2-3 dead but hearing much worse. Hoping area Dopers and their families are safe and sound.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrolink-train-crash-la-ventura-dopers-check-in-here/463375/2 "2008-09-13T01:30:55Z")
Eek. I take this route every day, though not as far as Chatsworth, and in the afternoons I often ride this very same machine after it turns around at Moorpark and goes back south. Today I caught the 2:59 southbound instead, thank goodness.
Just last week, on this same route, a man was hit and killed on the tracks, and of course the line was also involved in the 2005 crash. Out of respect for the dead, I won’t suggest a curse, but I will suggest that laying some more track and investing in the rail infrastructure would be a good way to start solving the problems. Having freight trains and passenger trains share a single track in such a populated, traffic-clogged area seems to be asking for disaster.
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### Author:  [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrolink-train-crash-la-ventura-dopers-check-in-here/463375/3 "2008-09-13T04:46:26Z")
Latest fatality estimate is at least twenty. Looking at that locomotive shoehorned into the passenger car doesn’t give much cause for hope.
And did I hear one of the reporters use the word “efforting”?
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrolink-train-crash-la-ventura-dopers-check-in-here/463375/4 "2008-09-13T04:50:50Z")
Yikes, **Dr. Drake**. :eek: I’m glad you weren’t on that train at the time.
**movingfinger** , which channel is giving a report of 20? Last I heard it was up to 10.
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrolink-train-crash-la-ventura-dopers-check-in-here/463375/5 "2008-09-13T05:03:55Z")
I work right there by where it happened. I started a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10190662#post10190662) a little while ago about my experiences today.
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### Author:  [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrolink-train-crash-la-ventura-dopers-check-in-here/463375/6 "2008-09-13T06:49:33Z")
> [@Queen\_Bruin](#):
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> Yikes, **Dr. Drake**. :eek: I’m glad you weren’t on that train at the time.
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> **movingfinger** , which channel is giving a report of 20? Last I heard it was up to 10.
I was listening to the KNBC 11 PM news, and they were reporting 20 at this point.