Woman hurt in accident at train station
One person was injured and Main Street in Lansdale was closed for roughly two hours Monday night after an accident at the Lansdale Train Station at Main Street and Railroad Avenue.
“We were coming from RiteAid, and there were kids on a bike, and she was right behind them, and then all of a sudden she wasn’t there and the train was stopped. I was like, ‘What the?’ ... and then I saw her under there,” said a witness who asked to be identified only as Kristen.
“I don’t know how she couldn’t hear the train. I hear the trains
all the time — and my 4and 5-year-olds know, look both ways before you cross the tracks,” she said.
The accident took place shortly before 8 p.m. at the intersection of Main Street and the easternmost rail track heading into the Lansdale station, as a train was heading northbound into the station. Main Street was closed for roughly two
hours between Broad Street and Green Street as Lansdale police, the Fairmount Fire Company, the Volunteer Medical Service Corps of Lansdale and SEPTA transit police investigated and worked to clear the scene, and Main Street reopened at roughly 9:40 p.m.
SEPTA personnel on the scene declined to comment, but SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch confirmed Monday that the woman was conscious and treated
by medics at the scene, then transported to an unknown hospital for treatment of what appeared to be nonlife-threatening injuries.
By Tuesday afternoon she had been treated and released, he said.
The cause and circumstances of the accident are still under investigation as of Monday night, he said, and service disruptions were minimal since the accident took place after the evening rush hour.
“The line is back up and running, and everything will be on normal service for (Tuesday) morning. Nothing will carry over,” he said.