{"id":92726,"date":"2026-01-21T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92726\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:45:08","slug":"man-killed-after-falling-off-subway-platform-and-being-hit-by-train-in-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92726\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed after falling off subway platform and being hit by train in Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed after he fell off a subway platform in Philadelphia and was hit by a train early Wednesday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Police Department said Terrell Burton, 41, got off a SEPTA Broad Street Line train around 1:30 a.m. as it arrived at the Hunting Park Station. Police said he then stepped backward and fell into the space between the subway car and the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Burton was then struck and run over by the train as it began moving southbound, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the city&#8217;s fire department responded to the accident and pronounced Burton dead at 2:03 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The accident remains under investigation by the police department&#8217;s crash investigation division.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed after he fell off a subway platform in Philadelphia and was hit by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22652,28,69,71,70,2618],"class_list":["post-92726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-hunting-park","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-septa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92726","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=92726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}