ROCKVILLE, Md. — Rescuers freed a person who was trapped under a train in Rockville early Tuesday morning. The incident caused major delays on the Red Line.
The accident was reported shortly before 5:50 a.m. at the Rockville Metro Station at 250 Rockville Pike in Rockville, officials said.
The person, who has not yet been identified, was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
The injured person is a trespasser, Metro Transit Police said. The incident did not happen at a station and resulted from the person climbing the fence, police said. There are no pedestrian crossings anywhere on Metro, police said.
All the passengers on the train that hit the person were safely offloaded at the Rockville platform at 7:06 a.m., officials said. There were no injuries or concerns reported among those on the train.
Metro officials said there were residual delays in both directions on the Red Line for a few hours. Trains were single-tracking between Shady Grove and Twinbrook for a short time where the person was struck, before resuming normal operations.
Shortly before 7:30 a.m., Metro officials said all trains were operating between Glenmont and Shady Grove.
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