Board ending his day on night shift when the high speed train from the norristown line hit. Upper darby emergency crews got the call just after midnight. Inbound norristown high speed train came into the terminal and hit a station car that was sitting in the terminal. Unoccupied. Reporter 42 people were injured. 41 passengers and the conductor some critically. Theres blood everywhere, yeah, the driver is all banged up and one girl bleeding out of her face pretty bad. Reporter workers in yellow vests could be seen clustered around the disabled train on tuesday. Ronnie says the train missed two stops this morning and had to back up to get passengers. Blue past. They never go past. They just stop and we get on gone. It blew past hadnt to backup at gulph mills. Same thing happened at bryn ma mawr. The leading investigator will speak to the press soon live in center city, well carry that for you. We know this. They will look at the train, the condition of the tracks and the condition of the
As the train neared upper darbys 69th street station. My face hit the wall, put a big hole in the wall and then i went straight down, i blacked out. So it was loud. I mean and it hurt. Reporter hes one of 32 people injured in the collision just after midnight when the high speed trolley hit an empty train sitting on the track. 31 were passengers. Some hurt critically. The other was the train operator later treated and released. Theres blood everywhere, yeah, the driver is all banged up and there was this one girl bleeding out of her face pretty bad. Reporter a group of workers wearing yellow safety vests could be seen clustered around the disabled train tuesday. Septa left answers about what went wrong to federal investigators while explaining the high speed rail operates much like a bus with buttons in trains and its stations for passengers to alert operators when to stop. Ronnie complained the ill fated train raced through two stops overnight before backing up to take on passengers.
At 11 00, a cemetery becomes a crime scene, numerous head stones toppled, tragedy at sea, a sailor is among the missing after a navy ship accident after the coast of singapore. First tracking storms, heavy rain, lightening and thunder moving to the region tonight. Earlier this evening, the storms triggered tornado warnings for several counties in our area, good evening, im jessica dean. Im Nicole Brewer, ukee has the night off. Lets get to meteorologist lauren casey, tracks where the storms are happening right now. Lauren . Thanks so much, we do now have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect for philadelphia and all immediate suburbs in effect until midnight tonight. Remember a warning means that Severe Weather emp intent, this contains the potential of 60 Miles Per Hour winds and quarter size hail torrential rainfall and continuance lightening, weve had multiple reports of downed trees and wires as this line came through western parts of area, berks county, the Lehigh Valley and poc
Triggered tornado warnings for several counties in our area, good evening, im jessica dean. Im Nicole Brewer, ukee has the night off. Lets get to meteorologist lauren casey, tracks where the storms are happening right now. Lauren . Thanks so much, we do now have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect for philadelphia and all immediate suburbs in effect until midnight tonight. Remember a warning means that Severe Weather emp intent, this contains the potential of 60 Miles Per Hour winds and quarter size hail torrential rainfall and continuance lightening, weve had multiple reports of downed trees and wires as this line came through western parts of area, berks county, the Lehigh Valley and poconos, right now, heavy rain stretching from montgomery to norristown, west goshen to marple, that will continue to move east, so looking at Center City Philadelphia timing really within the next 15, 20 minutes in the upper darby area about 11. 11 and potentially if the line holds together in the c
Our sky scan and no shortage of lightening worse by 12 30 this morning. Fire officials believe lightening sparked this overnight house fire in sellersville bucks county at height of the storm just after 12 30 on the 600 block ofe temple road, flames were contained to mostly upper floors, fortunately there were no injuries reported. We are getting reports of the down trees so lets check with meisha and Chelsea Ingram , good morning. Good morning. So great to have you with us this morning. So much fun to watch and so much fun to work with you guys Flood Warning on my cell phone at 12 30 what is going on. Usually so peaceful to sleep but last night i woke up like, wow what is going on. It really was. So roads are looking okay, we will see smaller road those are flooded, we were talking about this a little bit. Down trees we will get to in a little bit but just construction. Nasty storms they rolled through overnight but things are looking so much better, taking a live look at storm scan t