"Terry Creech says the Charlotte train car that derailed on his watch should have never been put on the tracks. The city still fired him. Now, he’s suing the city. The Charlotte Area Transit System fired Creech on June 23 following the May 2022 derailment, according to a termination letter he provided to The Charlotte Observer. City Council members did not learn of the derailment until this March, nearly a year later. No one was hurt during the incident, but its surfacing sounded calls for an independent investigation, as well as criticism from a former CATS CEO.