BREAKING: 68 Year Old Woman struck by Metro train

[rvablue]

The good news is that she is reported to be alive, per ABC news.

So sad!

[bushmeister0]

1. She got hit by a Metro car? How?

[Squatch]

2. She was probably on the tracks.

Not normally a good place to be, yano?

[rvablue]

3. They didn't say

there was some speculation that it might have had to do with overcrowded platforms, but it was only speculation.

Let's pray that she is OK.

[Jennifer C]

4. Poor woman

I hope she survives.

[Phillycat]

5. Jesus.

I'm guessing she got shoved over the side of the platform because of all the people. DC is going to be a madhouse today. I'm an hour south, and you couldn't pay me enough to go up there. Stay safe out there, folks!

[lonestarnot]

6. Damn! How in the hell did she get down on the tracks?

[bushmeister0]

7. God! People are dumb enough on the Metro on a good day.

Please, can we have a nation educational campaign instructing tourists on the proper use of the escalates, while we're discussion this?

Either walk up or move to the right. Don't hold everybody up standing in the middle of the step looking like you just arrived in Heaven or something. Yes, people actually live and work in DC and you can't get out of the Metro without going up the escalators.

Geez!