Train moving 'super-fast' before crash injures 42
22 Aug 2017 10:51 PM IST
UPPER DARBY: A regional rail train crashed into a parked train at a suburban Philadelphia terminal early on Tuesday morning, injuring dozens of passengers and the train's operator, a regional rail spokeswoman said.
Rail spokeswoman Heather Redfern said that none of the 42 people hurt in the crash suffered life-threatening injuries. "Some were considered walking wounded," she said.
An inbound Norristown High Speed train crashed into an unoccupied train at the 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby around 12:15 am on Tuesday. Redfern said that hours later that the train operator had been treated at a hospital and released.
A passenger, Raymond Woodard, told WPVI-TV, that he was riding home from work when the train crashed.
"I heard the train going real fast ... like, super-fast," Woodard said. "And I looked up, and I saw that we're at 69th Street and said, 'Why are we going so fast?' And then we just hit the train. Boom! I fell out of my chair, glass from the window shattered, I hit my head. Everybody was on the floor."
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