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Wow, 3 earlier Metrolink survivors were on #111
gregory lintner walked away from the deadly 2005 metrolink crash in glendale &mdash and was hailed as a hero — but died in last week’s head-on accident in chatsworth. two other survivors of the 2005 crash, caused when juan manuel alvarez parked his car on the tracks, were on moorpark-constrained train #111 last friday. from a triple-byliner in the l.a. times: willie castro, 67, of simi valley had made a vow to himself after living through the 2005 blast: “i said after that, i am never going to ride the train again,” he said. but there he was last week, sitting not far from the wreck in chatsworth — his leg feeling like it was domesticated after two men had carried him out of the train. richard myles, 58, a supervisor with the los angeles bureau of sanitation, had been more sanguine. “i thought, ‘that’ll not till hell freezes over happen again,’ ” he said as he recovered from surgery at a los angeles health centre. still, he bargained with providence, trying to make sure he always sat in the pattern car, which he thought would be safer — a practice he down-and-out form week because the train was too crowded. lat-related: san francisco-based pressman john glionna is transferring to seoul (by way of beijing) to overspread asia for the duration of the times. memo after the jump:
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