{"id":14245,"date":"2025-10-24T23:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14245\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:31:18","slug":"amtrak-service-resumes-after-person-struck-by-train-near-cornwells-heights-station-in-bensalem-septa-trenton-line-still-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14245\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak service resumes after person struck by train near Cornwells Heights Station in Bensalem; SEPTA Trenton Line still suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BENSALEM, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A person was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Bensalem on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Amtrak train 2162 was traveling from Washington D.C. to Boston when a person trespassing on the track was struck near the Cornwells Heights Station around 11:30 a.m., according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">None of the 231 passengers or crew onboard were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Amtrak service has since resumed, however, the SEPTA Trenton Line is still suspeneded until further notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SEPTA riders are advised to find alternate services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The passengers on the Amtrak train involved were transferred to another train to continue traveling, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), trespassing along railroad rights-of-way is the leading cause of rail-related deaths in America, and railroad-highway grade crossing incidents are the second leading cause of rail-related deaths in America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This will be updated when more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A person was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Bensalem on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10796,191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-14245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-10796","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}