Entries in crash (20)
Monday, February 1, 2010
Colin
Friday, August 21, 2009
7:30AM
TGIF SEPTA news round-up
And now, a round-up of recent SEPTA news:
- Remember last year when the Commonwealth told SEPTA that it would be getting a dedicated funding stream in part due to a plan to toll I-80? That plan's run into some problems and SEPTA is now worried it's going to be $120 million short this fiscal year.
- Remember the senseless murder of Sean Conroy, the Starbucks manager who was jumped by a gang of teens at the 13th & Market El concourse? His alleged attackers are on trial this week. This past Tuesday, they jury went on a field trip to the scene of the crime.
- Remember the construction that was set to begin on the Spring Garden and Girard Street BSL stops? It's begun.
- Remember how on-board cameras caught that grisly hammer attack on the BSL? SEPTA's now installing cameras on the El, too.
- Remember your manners? SEPTA started a new poster campaign this week to encourage politeness and civility for riders.
- Remember Darby? The Darby Borough Historical & Preservation Society is squabbling with the Darby Historical Commission over what should go on the historical markers outside the new transit center. Somehow, SEPTA's gonna get blamed for all this.
Oh yeah, and a couple accidents:
- Monday morning, an SUV plowed into a bus at Kensington and Lehigh.
- Wednesday morning, the 102 trolley hit a pedestrian at Baltimore and Glenwood in Clifton Heights.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
11:57AM
SEPTA will keep you safer
Need another reason to ride public transit? From today's Inquirer:
The auto insurer [AllState Corp.] says that among residents of 193 cities it examined, Philadelphians had the sixth-highest frequency of [car] accidents in 2008 - and the most among residents of the nation's 10 largest cities.On average, Allstate's Philadelphia policyholders have collisions once every 6.4 years, the insurer said. By comparison, New Yorkers wait eight years between accidents, Clevelanders 10.7 years, and residents of Sioux Falls, S.D., 13.5 years.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
12:30AM
Lazy SEPTA summer days begin
After a damp June, it looks like we're entering the lazy days of summer where life on SEPTA keeps on moving:
July 6: 13 hurt when the 117 bus gets hit by a car running a red light in Chester. Later the same day, 15 hurt when a truch hits the 14 bus in the Northeast.
July 6: A woman gets robbed of her purse as she boards a bus in South Philly.
June 25: SEPTA bus and SUV crash at Washington and 7th Avenue.
June 23: A 22-year-old man (identified by commenters as Joel Chung) hit by R8 at Olney Station.
June 16: A very messy break-up on SEPTA one night is captured by video.
June 15: Pranksters put up fake (and funny) SEPTA signs in regional rail cars.
June 15: Work starts on a $12 million project to fix up the Croydon station on the R7 line.
June 11: The R3 runs over an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) near Bensalem. Man escapes. Train catches fire.
June 8: A guy robs a bank in Doylestown. He tries to escape on a SEPTA bus. He gets caught.
And finally, via Philebrity, here's a video from 1985 from SEPTA's Board Chair Lewis Gould apologizing for delays on the regional rails. Plus ça change....
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
5:04PM
Dangerous Bucks County?
What's going on in Bucks County these days?
Last Friday, an Acela train killed a woman in Bristol on the same tracks travelled by the R7.
In just the past 3 months, there's been reports of a bus accident in Middletown, a SEPTA-related electrocution in Bensalem, and another train hitting person incident on the R3 line in Bucks County.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
6:02PM
Fatality at 11th & Market today
I was walking back to my office today around noon, calmly eating a falafal from the best falafel stand in the city, and saw a heavy crowd of people around the Clothespin. The MFE was apparently shut down and folks were streaming out looking for alternatives. According to the twittersphere, it looks like a suicide at 11th & Market.The Inquirer has a bit more:
Service has returned to normal on SEPTA's Market Line after the discovery of a body on the tracks at the 11th Street subway station.
Police are investigating the death of the unidentified person and SEPTA officials could not confirm reports a man had jumped in front of a train at the station.
The incident disrupted service along the Market Street Subway for a period, but it returned to normal by 2 p.m., said SEPTA spokesman Gary P. Fairfax. SEPTA had been operating shuttle buses in both directions between the 15th Street and Spring Garden Street stations during the stoppage.
A sad story. My thoughts go out to this man's family.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
7:30AM
Bus crash in Bucks County sends 6 riders to the hospital
Last Friday, a 130 bus out in Middletown (Bucks County) rear-ended a van sending six bus riders to the hospital. They were apparently on their way to Franklin Mills Mall.
Monday, April 20, 2009
7:30AM
Man killed by bus had been hit back in September by bus at the same intersection
Last September, I noted here that a man was hit by the 47 bus at 8th & Girard. The accident apparently fractured his foot and put him in a wheelchair.
Friday afternoon, the man was hit by the 47 bus at 8th & Girard AGAIN. This time, he wasn't so lucky.
Milton Boneta cheated death seven months ago when he was struck by a SEPTA bus in his wheelchair at 8th Street and Girard Avenue. Fate revisited him in cruel fashion at the same intersection earlier today. This time, he was not as lucky.Police said the Route 47 bus crushed Boneta, 61, as he crossed 8th Street in his motorized wheelchair at about 4:15 p.m. Based on the reactions of witnesses and the grisly scene, there was no chance he could have survived this accident.Zakia Gillyard, 26, was standing in front of the Citgo gas station on North 8th Street seconds before Boneta was killed. “He was in the street, about two feet from the corner. We saw the bus, and we told him to get out the street,” she said.“I guess he thought he had enough time. The bus turned real fast and hit him. His chair was caught on the front of the bus, but then he went under,” Gillyard said, while firefighters hosed off the blood-stained pavement.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
7:30AM
R2 totals car last week but driver survives
Missed this story last week while I was cooing to my baby, but regular readers know how much I love a good crash story with photos.
This one happened on the R2 a week ago today. Fox News has more:
A motorist in Montgomery County is very lucky Tuesday morning after a close encounter with the R2 SEPTA train.SEPTA officials said the white car was too close to the tracks at the intersection of Easton Road and Susquehanna Road in Abington Township at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.The train hit the car and drove it backwards into a building.Remarkably, the driver walked away with minor injuries.
Click here for a slideshow of more photos.
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Friday, March 6, 2009
7:30AM
Tragedy at Susquehanna-Dauphin
I've written about suicide-by-SEPTA stories in the past (1, 2, 3.)
I'm afraid it's happened again: A 16-year-old student from Philadelphia Military Academy at Elverson committed suicide by stepping in front of a BSL train at Susquehanna-Dauphin on Wednesday afternoon. The Daily News and Temple News Online have more.
