REGIONAL BRIEFING

METRORAIL

Safety Review Is Planned

Officials from Metro and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 will conduct a review of employee safety and recommend any needed changes, Metro officials announced yesterday.

Two Metro track workers have been struck and killed by trains in the past seven months. The most recent accident occurred Sunday, when Jong Won Lee, 49, was hit and killed at the Dupont Circle Station shortly after he and two other workers completed repairs on track equipment. In October, Michael Waldron, 47, was struck and killed by a Metrorail train.

Fred Goodine, Metro's safety chief, and Steven A. Feil, Metro's chief operating officer for rail, will work with Mike Golash, president of ATU Local 689, to make recommendations. The union local represents about 7,000 of Metro's 10,000 employees.

-- Lena H. Sun

RED CROSS

Gasoline Raffle for Blood Donors

With gasoline prices up at the pump, the Washington area's Red Cross blood services organization is offering summer donors a chance at a weekly drawing for $100 in gas.

The raffles are set to begin Friday and to continue through August. People who give blood at Red Cross Greater Chesapeake and Potomac Region donor sites or blood drives will be entered automatically.

The region, which extends from southeastern Pennsylvania through central Maryland and the District to Northern Virginia, must collect at least 1,000 units per day for local needs, according to the organization.