PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — At least eight people were injured Sunday morning after a Norristown High Speed Line trolley crashed into a bumper at the end of the tracks.
Around 9:45 a.m., officials said the train did not come to a complete stop and it hit the bumper at the Norristown Transportation Center on Lafayette Street.
Seven passengers and the train operator were injured. One of the victims suffered head and neck injuries and was airlifted to the hospital, fire officials said.
“We take these incidents very seriously. We’re going to do everything we can to first figure out what happened and then put in steps to try to prevent it from happening again,” Scott Sauer, SEPTA general manager, told NBC10. “Bottom line is we want to run a safe operation, and no incident is acceptable to us. We want to make sure everything is safe.”
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating, and SEPTA said it would cooperate in the investigation.
“We have to run a lot of things through some inspections,” Sauer explained. “We pulled video from the car. We will have to examine the car and, of course, look at what happened, do a more extensive interview with the operator.”
SEPTA had shuttle buses running from Norristown to Gulph Mills for a few hours until service was restored. There were no major issues reported during the Monday morning commute.
The train involved in the crash was still on the platform Monday morning, blocked off with yellow caution tape. SEPTA officials will tow it to the rail yard at 69th Street once the NTSB on-scene investigation concludes.