Casualties
A total of 11 passengers were killed in the collision. Between 100 and 200 people were injured. In terms of casualties, the crash had the same death toll as the Bourbonnais train accident on March 15, 1999, making it the deadliest U.S. train crash in almost six years.
Fatalities in this accident were:
- Manuel Alcala, 51, West Hills, Los Angeles
- Julia Bennett, 44, Simi Valley
- Alfonso Caballero, 62, Winnetka, Los Angeles
- Elizabeth Hill, 62, Van Nuys, Los Angeles
- Henry Kilinski, 39, Orange
- Scott McKeown, 42, Moorpark
- Thomas Ormiston, 58, Northridge, Los Angeles (a conductor on the northbound #901 Metrolink train)
- William Parent, 53, Canoga Park, Los Angeles
- Leonard Romero, 53, Rancho Cucamonga
- Deputy James Tutino (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department), 47, Simi Valley
- Don Wiley, 58, Simi Valley
In an October 14, 2009 article appearing in the Los Angeles Times, Metrolink announced it had reached an agreement to settle most of the remaining claims.
In remembrance of the accident, all Metrolink train engineers were asked to sound their trains' horns at 12:01 Pacific Time, February 2, 2005, and the former Control Point Metro (milepost 3.3 on the Metrolink River Subdivision) was renamed Control Point Ormiston in memory of the conductor who was killed instantly.
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