Products: n/a. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 14.1/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 45th percentile of 62 other companies.
The record spans three entries across a sixteen-year window: a fatal 2009 Fort Totten Red Line collision attributed to an automatic train control track circuit failure (severity 5), the resulting 2009 systemwide suspension of Automatic Train Operation (severity 5, regulatory), and a January 2025 entry of 217 station overruns following ATO reactivation on the Red Line (severity 2, malfunction). The record combines one historical fatality-and-regulatory-response pair with a recent, lower-severity operational recurrence tied to the same automated train control function. The 45.2 percentile and low band reflect a mixed severity profile dominated by an older high-severity event rather than a sustained high-frequency pattern.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | 01/2025 | malfunction | Washington, DC, USA | 217 station overruns after ATO reactivation on Red Line · 217 overrun events, Red Line fleet | Railway Track and Struct |
| S5 | 06/22 2009 · 16:58 |
fatality | Washington, DC, USA | Fort Totten Red Line collision (ATC track circuit failure) · 2 trains / 1 fatal collision | NTSB |
| S5 | 06/2009 | regulatory | — | WMATA suspends Automatic Train Operation systemwide after Fort Totten crash · fleet-wide, ~15 years | Railway Age |