Photos: A history of Metrolink crashes
Ventura County emergency personnel respond to the scene of a Metrolink crash in Oxnard early Feb. 24, 2015, after the passenger train collided with a vehicle on the tracks. The collision, which occurred at the Rice Avenue crossing, injured at least 28 people. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A look at Metrolink’s struggles with safety through the years.
A firefighter climbs out of an overturned Metrolink train car in Oxnard early Feb. 24, 2015, after the train collided with a vehicle on the tracks. The collision occurred at the Rice Avenue crossing and injured at least 28 people. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A firefighter looks into the wreckage of a Metrolink train crash near Glendale on Jan. 26, 2005. Eleven people were killed when the train hit a truck parked on the tracks. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Parts of a Jeep Cherokee that was parked on train tracks can be seen at the site of the deadly 2005 Metrolink crash near Glendale. The driver of the Jeep was later sentenced to 11 consecutive life prison terms. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
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In 2008, 25 people died and 135 were injured in a Sept. 12 crash in which a Metrolink commuter train collided with a Union Pacific freight train on a stretch of shared track in Chatsworth. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Emergency workers rescue a passenger injured in the Sept. 12, 2008, Metrolink crash in Chatsworth. Investigators said the Metrolink engineer went through a signal light that should have warned him to stop until a freight train had moved. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
On Dec. 6, 2010, at downtown L.A.’s Union Station, Metrolink Board Chairman Keith Millhouse explains the safety features of newly purchased train cars. The cars have energy-absorbing crush zones designed to redistribute the force of a crash away from passengers. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Metrolink passengers disembark a train at downtown L.A.’s Union Station on May 9, 2011, after Metrolink announced the addition of 16 new trains to its system. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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The first Metrolink train with a train-control safety system sits at downtown Los Angeles’ Union Station on Feb. 20, 2014. Eventually, the system will be standard on every Metrolink train. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Shown is the inside of a Metrolink test train with positive train control, or PTC, technology. Metrolink is testing the technology as it aims to become the first rail system in the nation with such safety controls on all of its trains. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
