Metro Cars Pulled Out Of Service After Door Malfunction: WMATA

All 3000-series Metro rail cars were pulled out of service overnight after a report of a door malfunction with an unknown cause, WMATA reported Tuesday morning.

WMATA tweeted at around 7 a.m. that they "received a report of a door malfunction for which we need to identify the cause." The move reduces the number of available rail cars by around 15 percent, the agency said.

NBC Washington transportation reporter Adam Tuss tweeted that the door incident happened on Sunday and involved a rail car where not all the doors were closed as the train left the Dunn Loring station on the Orange Line in Virginia.

Although passengers were on board, there were no reported injuries, Tuss said.

There is no indication when the trains might return to service.

There was an incident on Sunday (09/19) apparently at some point on the Orange Line involving a door opening outside of the platform limits. However outside of a passenger report we had no indication of this incident based the data we have available to us to monitor #WMATA https://t.co/3q76bWZdsm
— Rail Transit OPS (@RailTransitOPS) May 21, 2019

NEW-Metro says the door incident on Sunday involved a railcar where not all the doors were closed as the train left the Dunn Loring station. No reported injuries - passengers were on board at the time. Not clear how long the 3000 series cars out of service #wmata @nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/PGA9xZ0ZlS
— Adam Tuss (@AdamTuss) May 21, 2019