B4 DIGEST VIRGINIA


Herndon teen dies after being hit by car A 17-year-old from Herndon


died Saturday after he was hit by a car Thursday, Fairfax County Police said. Jose Antonio Villatoro at- tempted to cross Reston Parkway around 9 p.m. while not in a crosswalk, police said Tuesday. He was hit by a Toyota pickup truck driven by a Reston man. Villatoro was taken to Inova Fair- fax Hospital, according to police. He died Saturday at 11 a.m., po- lice said.


— David P. Marino-Nachison


Power firm worker hurt by transformer


A man working on an electrical


transformer in Alexandria was severely burned Monday night when the transformer exploded and shot hot oil onto the man’s face and upper body, Alexandria fire officials said Tuesday. The man’s injuries were not life-threatening, Battalion Chief John North said. Dominion Power officials said the man, whose name was not re- leased, is a 46-year-old employee who suffered second-degree burns and was in stable condition Tuesday. The incident happened about


11:50 p.m. on a pole behind a house in the unit block of Del Ray Avenue in the Del Ray section of the city, North said. The city had been suffering power outages throughout the hot holiday Mon- day, and the worker was respond- ing to a reported outage when a seal on the transformer ruptured, Dominion spokesman Jim Nor- velle said. Transformers contain oil to keep them cool, Norvelle said. The man was taken by ambu- lance to the parking lot of the Po- tomac Yards shopping center, where a helicopter flew him to the burn unit at Washington Hos- pital Center. Firefighters extinguished the burning transformer and pole, and North said there was no seri- ous damage to any other proper- ty. Norvelle said Dominion is in- vestigating the cause of the explo- sion.


— Tom Jackman


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Pr. William boy accidentally drowns


A 6-year-old boy from Prince William County died in what county police described as an ac- cidental drowning in a private pool. Police said the boy died Tues-


day at a hospital after being found Saturday in a pool in the 13700 block of Rayburn Court, where the boy and his mother at- tended a gathering. The boy was seen in the shal- low end of the pool but then “was noticed in the deep end,” police said. After he was brought out, neighbors and then police and rescue workers administered CPR. The boy was taken to a hos- pital and then flown to another in critical condition, police said. Police spokesman Jonathan Pe-


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WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010 Pentagon to review change in checkpoints


N.Va. officials warn of safety problems for mass-transit riders


by Ann Scott Tyson Pentagon officials agreed Tues-


day to review planned changes to security checkpoints near the busy Pentagon Metrorail and Met- robus stations after Northern Vir- ginia transportation officials warned that the changes could create hazards for passengers. The Pentagon Force Protection


Agency, the building’s security force, also agreed to discuss the changes with members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Committee, which is made up of local and state officials. “During the next couple days,


we will continue to review our se- curity plans until we come up with a final decision,” said Chris Layman, a spokesman for the Pen- tagon Force Protection Agency. Pentagon security officials de- cided to add checkpoints farther from the Pentagon entrance where gunman Joe Bedell opened fire March 4. The current check- point is only a few feet from the Pentagon’s busiest entrance, where about 6,700 employees pass through during the morning rush, Layman said. The security changes — sched- uled to be implemented in com- ing weeks — would close off two main covered walkways that lead directly from the bus bays to the Pentagon doors from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays. Metro board member Cather-


ine Hudgins of Fairfax County, chairman of the Northern Vir-


ginia Transportation Commis- sion, said in a letter to the Penta- gon facilities directorate that the change would push long Penta- gon security lines up against the flow of commuters, who number 30,o000 a day, creating a “safety hazard.” People rushing for buses could run into people in security lines, said Rick Taube, executive direc- tor of the transportation commis- sion. He also saw a potential prob- lem with people making the lon- ger walk from bus bays to the Metro station along uncovered walkways during bad weather. “There could be rain storms, and folks would get in each other’s way. . . . That should be avoided if possible,” he said. Taube called for better commu-


nication between Pentagon secu- rity officials and the transit com- munity. “The idea is to get people


sitting at the same table before a unilateral decision is made that could endanger some of those transit riders,” he said. The new configuration would pose particular problems for dis- abled people, said Metro board member Jeff McKay of Fairfax. “It puts a major line of people right in the way where the eleva- tor comes up, so the very people who already have a difficult time navigating the system, with disa- bilities or strollers, will be signifi- cantly impacted by people going through the Pentagon security checkpoint,” McKay said. In particular, McKay said, the


revised flow of foot traffic would make it hard for disabled pas- sengers to make their way to an elevator leading to the Metro sta- tion. “In light of security, incon- veniences can be dealt with, but what can’t be dealt with is ADA


access,” he said, referring to the Americans With Disabilities Act. “That’s the part that has to be fixed,” he said. Pentagon officials are looking


into ways to improve access to the elevator while still strengthening security by pushing out the check- points, Layman said. “The main question is access to the elevator,” he said. Layman stressed that the new checkpoints would operate only on weekdays and that they would not completely cut off commuter access to elevators. Overall, he said, the additional checkpoints would help Pentagon employees by giving them “more options” while allowing the secu- rity force to “manage the pedestri- an traffic flow better and provide additional stand-off from the building entrance.” tysona@washpost.com


Holocaust survivors criticize firm chosen by VRE trains from B1


in New York. The lawsuit, which was refiled in 2006 and is pend- ing, seeks reparations for proper- ty taken from Holocaust victims when they boarded SNCF trains. VRE is the first U.S. rail system


Keolis would operate, but the company is seeking to run com- muter rail systems in California, in addition to the two MARC lines, according to Steve Town- send, president of Keolis Rail Services Virginia. Townsend said he has never heard complaints that Keolis, which was founded in the late 1990s, is too closely connected to the Holocaust via SNCF. “It’s quite a reach for someone


to say Keolis has anything to do with World War II,” Townsend said. “It’s just not the nature of this company.”


‘Adds insult to injury’ But Holocaust survivor Leo


Bretholz, 89, a Baltimore resi- dent in the group, said Keolis re- mains tainted by SNCF’s part ownership until the French rail- way apologizes for the kind of sti- fling, packed freight car he es- caped from as a 21-year-old. Bretholz, who lost 20 relatives in the Holocaust, said the SNCF train he and a friend jumped from after they pried apart rusty window bars in 1942 carried 1,000 people to Auschwitz. Keolis shouldn’t be granted any MARC contract until its parent com- pany takes responsibility, he said. “The survivors are taxpayers,”


Bretholz said. “Why should we subsidize a company that has done us wrong? This adds insult to injury.” Leibach said the survivors group didn’t discover the SNCF connection with VRE until after the VRE contract was awarded in October. Peter Kelly, a Los Angeles law- yer hired by SNCF to help it pur- sue high-speed rail business in California, said the French gov- ernment “has been very trans- parent” about its role in World War II. In response to legislation proposed in California that would require SNCF to disclose its Holocaust activities, Kelly said, the railway is having trans- lated from French to English a 1,200-page report that it commis- sioned from an independent his- torian in the 1990s to detail its wartime work. He said SNCF will release that report online in about a month. Kelly declined to give specifics of the report beyond saying, “SNCF’s assets were completely controlled by the Germans dur- ing World War II.” He added, “We believe that the record of SNCF, when it’s fully disclosed, will result in SNCF be- ing a welcomed partner in Amer- ica.” Michael R. Marrus, a Univer-


GERALD MARTINEAU/THE WASHINGTON POST VRE awarded a contract to Keolis, which is partially owned by a French railway that transported people to Nazi concentration camps.


sity of Toronto law and history professor who has written exten- sively about Jewish persecution in Vichy France, said SNCF “be- came part of the Nazi war ma- chine” after Germany defeated France in 1940. Marrus said the French gov- ernment took responsibility for


“No one in the SNCF now was making decisions back then,” Marrus said. He said the controversy raises the same complicated historical questions as those surrounding whether the U.S. government owes reparations to African Americans whose ancestors were


“There has to be a turning of the page at some point. I think we’ve reached that with SNCF.”


— Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto law and history professor


the crimes of its World War II-era Vichy government in the mid- 1990s and has paid reparations to survivors and victims’ fami- lies. Those payments have been slow to come and in many cases had to be forced by lawsuits, Mar- rus said. However, he said, he be- lieves continuing to “stigmatize” SNCF more than 60 years after the atrocities were committed is “nonsensical.”


enslaved. “At what point should one say


there’s been an appropriate rec- ognition of historical responsibil- ity?” Marrus said. “There has to be a turning of the page at some point. I think we’ve reached that with SNCF.” VRE spokesman Mark Roeber said the commuter rail system was unaware of any Holocaust connection before awarding the


contract to Keolis. However, he said the information would have had little impact because Keolis’s bid was “head and shoulders above the others” in providing the best value under Virginia and federal procurement laws. He noted that Keolis is also owned by two other companies, a Cana- dian asset management company and a Paris-based private equity firm.


‘It’s a stretch’


“We’re doing business with a multinational corporation, not one just owned by the French” railway, Roeber said. Though Holocaust survivors “may have a legitimate beef with the French government,” he said, Keolis “has a proven record in public trans- portation. . . . I think it’s a stretch to say Keolis has some tie-in to what the French railroad may have done in World War II.” Keolis began maintaining VRE


trains June 26. Its conductors and engineers will take over July 12. VRE trains were previously operated and maintained for 17 years by Amtrak, which placed


third in the bid competition, Roeber said. The contract is renewable for


two additional five-year terms if both VRE and Keolis choose to extend it, he added. Maryland Transit spokesman


Terry Owens said procurement law prohibits him from discuss- ing the MARC contract or any possible bidders while the con- tract is pending. But Del. Heather R. Mizeur (D-


Montgomery) said she has asked Maryland Transportation Secre- tary Beverley K. Swaim-Staley to consider SNCF’s record when the state evaluates Keolis’s MARC bid.


“I don’t think we in good con- science can have Maryland survi- vors of this tragedy subsidizing their prosecutors, which would be the case if this contract were awarded,” Mizeur said. “I get that Keolis itself was not involved in World War II activities, but its 60 percent majority owner was.” shaverk@washpost.com


Staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.


Death of law student struck by Metro train accidental


Joseph Doyle had bright future, faculty and associates recall


by Ann Scott Tyson Metro said Tuesday that a pre-


liminary police investigation in- dicated the law student struck and killed by a train at Minnesota Avenue Station on July 4 fell onto the tracks and that no foul play was involved. “The man likely fell accidental- ly onto the tracks and was not there intentionally,” Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said in a statement. She said the in- vestigation was ongoing but that


initial findings indicate “there was no foul play.” Joseph Doyle, 28, a rising third-year student at William and Mary law school in Williamsburg, was hit by a train just before 3 a.m., apparently “as he was in the process of switching from one train line to another,” according to a letter to the school communi- ty from Virginia M. Ambler, the college’s vice president for stu- dent affairs. After Doyle was struck by the


Orange Line train headed to New Carrollton, Metro initially report- ed that “his injuries were not be- lieved to be life-threatening.” But D.C. Fire and Emergency


Medical Services, who responded to a call about 3:15 a.m., found Doyle trapped under the midway


point of a train, requiring an ex- tremely technical rescue. He was transported to an area trauma center in “grave condition,” said D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Pete Piringer. Metro announced at about 11:30 a.m. Sunday that Doyle had died. Teachers and associates of Doyle, a native of Oklahoma, said he was a bright and enthusiastic young man who planned to in- tern at a law firm this summer and then travel to Spain on an ex- change program.


“I taught him in class. . . . He was a great student,” said Joe Sandler of the law firm Sandler, Reiff & Young, who was an ad- junct professor at the school last spring. “He was cheerful, well- adjusted, had a job, had a future,”


said Sandler. Doyle was to have begun an internship at the firm on Aug. 3. “He was absolutely lovely,” said


Liz Howard, an attorney at the firm, who was in e-mail contact with Doyle about the internship. “He always had a can-do spirit and was willing to help.” Doyle’s family could not be reached immediately for com- ment.


Doyle graduated as an English language and literature major in 2004 from the University of Vir- ginia, where he was on the dean’s list and was active in debate and the Model United Nations, Am- bler said.


At William and Mary, he was a member of the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.


Davison Douglas, dean of the


law school, said in an interview that Doyle “was a truly outstand- ing student who had a wonderful future in front of him. . . . It’s just really a tragedy.” He said fellow students had expressed shock. “He had a particular interest in


election law — he served as Vice President of the Law School’s Election Law Society, worked for the Virginia State Board of Elec- tions after his first year of law school, and had been a field or- ganizer for Brad Carson’s U.S. Senate campaign in Oklahoma in 2004,” Douglas said in a letter. “He was beloved by his friends and colleagues at William and Mary. The entire Law School community mourns his death.” tysona@washpost.com


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