A spokesman for Amtrak said the two people had been “trespassing” on the tracks when they were struck by southbound Train 161 on Saturday afternoon.
Two people were struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Chester on Saturday afternoon, a spokesman for the Delaware County Medical Examiner’s Office said.A spokesman for Amtrak said the two people had been “trespassing” on the tracks when they were struck by southbound Train 161, which had originated in New York and was headed to Washington, at 4:29 p.m.
Travel along Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor between New York and Washington largely resumed about 6 p.m. with heavy delays. In all, the crash delayed eight other Amtrak trains, the agency said.Tonia Lee, a wealth management professional from Baltimore, had boarded 161 in Philadelphia, where she had been attending a conference.
She said she had learned that the train had struck people by doing a Google search. Information from the train crew was sparse, Lee said. Passengers were sitting in the dark with no updates since power was turned off, she said.Train 161 passengers were transferred to another train beginning at 7:45 p.m., Lee said, and the new train departed at 8:30 p.m.
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