At the Farragut station Red Line Washington Metro train’s two cars reportedly derailed on Friday at around 10 a.m. The Red Line train has been reported a six-car Metro that experienced the accident but the reason of derailment remains undisclosed yet. At least 3 persons received minor injuries.

There were 345 passengers in the two cars derailed at 10:13 a.m. and they were immediately evacuated. According to the details, near Farragut station that’s situated in the District’s heart, the front wheel of the first car reportedly came off, perhaps slippery, tracks thus resulting in derailment of two out of six cars.

This has been the second incident of derailment of a train that metro service has experienced within the span of one year and according to the rail operators, the passengers were lucky to have escaped major damage. Following the news of accident, the Metro officials immediately arrived at the scene and initiated an investigation into the matter.

The earlier accident was much severe in nature that occurred on 22 June, 2009 when a similar six-car rail smashed into another train from behind while the other train was in stationery position. As many as nine persons lost their lives in that deadliest accident Washington Metro ever faced in its history. Some 70 or even more people were injured too.

Thousands of commuters were further in trouble with the delays caused off Friday morning incident since they are already facing great difficulty in traveling due to acute shortage of traveling means. The bad and severe cold weather multiplied with heavy snowfall has confined the residents to certain limits. The trains are unusually overloaded, being the only safe mode of traveling between most of the cities under this type of weather.

Red Line Derailment