WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 26, 2009) — Several Walter Reed Army Medical Center staffers survived the deadliest accident in Washington Metrorail’s 33-year history Monday.
Maj. David Bottoms, a Walter Reed chaplain and Col. Thomas Baker, chief of pathology, said they were both riding in the first car of the train that slammed into another stopped train during Monday’s rush-hour commute home.
“I was reading and listening to my iPod, and I noticed the front end of the car was buckling and it was coming toward us. It looked like a wave … it stopped three seats in front of me … I was praying then,” Bottoms said.
Baker stood in the rear of the car. “It was very scary. Oh my God. It was a very surreal event,” he said.
