On Monday, the Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train didn’t stop at the end of the line at its station in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and climbed an escalator. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Tim DePaepe says he has never seen an accident like this before. No one was seriously hurt. 32 people had minor injuries, and almost all have already been released. The train operator has not been released, though, and NTSB experts will speak to her when she is to determine the cause of the crash, as well as study footage from station cameras.
Okay, first, let me just say that I have no idea how to pronounce DePaepe, but that is a freaking cool name. Second, I always find it sort of cool when two totally different machines randomly interact in a total moment of coincidence, like the train and elevator in this situation. My classmate Holland can’t believe a train can go up an escalator. The author had no bias.