PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Police are investigating another accident involving a SEPTA vehicle. This time, a trolley and a car collided in the Kingsessing section of the city.
Neighbors say this one was too close for comfort.
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“Getting up and drinking my coffee in the morning — and to look outside my window and see the trolley in the next track — I don’t feel comfortable with that,” said Patricia, who lives on Chester Avenue, directly across the street from the scene of the collision. She declined to give her last name.
Mike, who also declined to give his last name, said he and his daughter were shocked to see the SEPTA trolley off its tracks at the intersection of 52nd Street and Chester Avenue early Sunday morning.
“We were walking up the street to meet it, and I looked up the street and wow — seen it was derailed,” Mike said.
Investigators say a driver ran a red light and crashed their car into a Route 13 trolley traveling down Chester Avenue at South 52nd Street — pushing it completely off the tracks.
The driver jumped out of the car and attempted to flee the scene, say investigators. However, police say they managed to subdue and arrest the driver soon afterward a few blocks away.
SEPTA confirms the trolley operator and three trolley passengers sustained minor injuries. They were all treated at a nearby hospital and released.
This is at least the sixth incident involving a SEPTA vehicle over the last few weeks. One of those crashes, a collision of two buses on Roosevelt Boulevard, resulted in a death.
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