Skytrain car derailed

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Skytrain CEO Doug Kelsey is reassuring riders are safe, after a car derailed Wednesday night. This incident is a first in the system's near 25-year history.

Kelsey says the derailment was an isolated incident. "We had, what I'll call a small derailment, but a derailment never the less, after our Mark 2 car had left the King George station heading to the end of the line."

He says a brake caliper from another train had come off, and was lying on the track.
The next car hit the part at about 5 kilometers an hour, but that was enough to send it teetering off the rail. Kelsey adds all cars are regularly maintained, but the fleet of similar cars was removed and inspected as a precaution.

Investigators are trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. Nobody was on the train at the time; it was heading into a turn around area near King George station.