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Disney monorail reopens following fatal crash

Reported by: Associated Press
Last Update: 7/07 4:00 am
(WFTV)
(WFTV)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL-- Walt Disney World reopened the monorail that was shut down for more than a day after a train operator was killed in a collision.
  
Disney spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez says federal workplace investigators have released the monorail back to the theme park resort and it reopened late Monday.
  
Workers already have performed test runs on the system.
  
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating whether workplace safety rules were broken before one monorail train crashed into another one early Sunday. The accident killed 21-year-old Austin Wuennenberg.

The investigation could take as long as six months to complete.

No guests were seriously injured in the first fatal accident in the 38-year history of the park's monorail.
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