Originally posted by Buicksx3
I took the Metrolink train this morning into downtown LA from the Orange County side (that's south of LA; the derailment took place north of LA) and we were about 10 minutes from Union Station when I an email from my wife beeped in on my Blackberry...she wrote to tell me she'd just learned that one of the victims was a guy we both knew pretty well as my wife, the victim and another friend of his & hers had all worked in the same office together a couple of years back, and he'd tell us how he was working to become a member of the LAFD. Her email to me closed with "Take care and I love you". We are both having a mortality check tonight.
The news here is reporting one victim began taking the train a month ago as he thought it'd be safer than driving. Another victim took the train because his left knee was bothering him, and he didn't want to drive his stick-shift car to work in traffic.