Multiple juveniles hit by Amtrak train on Northeast Corridor in Bristol PA, just miles north of yesterday's fatal.

[trentbob]

At least one dead, probably three, juveniles trespassing on the Northeast Corridor just north of Bristol train station in Bucks County. It is common for kids to play on the tracks in that area.

We see here Chopper 6 and SkyFox orbiting the area, they were later joined by Chopper 10.

The incident happened a little bit after 6:00 at the height of the rush hour.. there were logistic problems with fire department trying to get into the woods where the bodies ended up.. chatter between news choppers on the aviation news chopper air-to-air frequency indicated it looked like three fatalities. Initially EMS responded but left the scene.. the Bucks County coroner is on site along with Amtrak officials and multiple fire units and fire police. Amtrak police are using the Trenton repeater as opposed to the Philly repeater yesterday.

Multiple trains are stranded and train directors have their hands full on the road channel and buses are being shuttled in to retrieve stranded passengers who are disembarking at Croydon train station. The entire Northeast Corridor from Philadelphia to Trenton is closed.

I imagine this story will garner more attention than yesterday's apparent suicide just south of Eddington station where a female lost her life and also was found deep in the woods.

Although our police are encrypted here for many years, we had the fire Ops, fire police, Amtrak Road Channel, Amtrak police, news chopper Publishers desks and chopper to chopper Aviation frequency.

 

[trentbob]

Okay, lots of news coverage on this one but the only problem is that each news source has a different story, not unusual for Philly, I'm getting a lot off of the radio, appears to be one Juvenile and two adults. The juvenile appeared agitated and the two adults were following the individual to the train station on foot. Police were called and a radio car was dispatched and on the way. By that time all three individuals were on the Railroad.. a police official said it was an Amtrak Acela, that is not the picture of the train that the helicopters took a picture of but it was still a high-speed train that in that section probably does at least 90-100 miles an hour.. the train is on top of you instantly, all three individuals were hit at the same time.

Police chief says that it is a large family in town, who's well known.

Big problem for fire department who is still on the railroad and in the woods with light trucks is they need to make sure they have all the individuals intact and there's still searching going on to make that happen.

Coroner can't take the victims away unless they are completely intact so this is going to be a very protracted operation.

It will be interesting to see how this pans out tomorrow and all the details are sorted out.

I would imagine, depending on the circumstances involved this will be a national story tomorrow.

The interruption to the Northeast Corridor is not good as equipment is needed to replace other equipment to keep operations up and down the East Coast going. I don't know if there will be a rush hour tomorrow on Septa but Amtrak should be running tomorrow at some point..