CULPEPER — Veronica Dubose, 29, was among nine killed last week when two trains collided on Metro’s Red Line in the worst accident ever in the 30-plus year history of the regional transit service.
“We have a very small family and she just never wanted to live in D.C.,” said Dubose’s cousin, Latisha Clanagan. “She loved the quiet country life. It was so tragic.”
Dubose graduated from high school in Washington, D.C. in 1998 and moved to Culpeper that year. While there, she worked at Culpeper Health Care Center and other local businesses.
A mother of two young children, an 8-year-old and an 18-month-old, Clanagan said Dubose had recently moved back to Northwest D.C. to attend school.
The day of the crash, she was on her way to the first day of class in advanced nursing when the accident occurred. Clanagan said the family learned that Dubose was riding directly behind the train operator on the train that struck a stopped train on the same track.
Authorities are still investigating the accident.
The operator who was killed was identified as Jeanice McMillan, 42, of Springfield.
The others who lost their lives were Ana Fernandez, 40, of Hyattsville, Md., and D.C. residents Mary Doolittle, 59; Dennis Hawkins, 64; Lavonda King, 23; Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr., and his wife, Ann Wherley, both 62; and Cameron Williams, 36.
Staff from the Culpeper Star-Exponent and Stafford County Sun Managing Editor Tracy Bell contributed to this report.
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