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14:32, 22-Aug-2017
42 injured in high-speed train accident outside Philadelphia
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At least 42 people were injured, four of them seriously, in a collision accident involving two high-speed trains outside Philadelphia on Tuesday.
According to the Pennsylvania Transportation Authority spokesperson Heather Redfern, an inbound Norristown High-Speed Line train crashed into an unoccupied train parked at the 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby.
The accident took place at around 12:15 a.m. local time, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said.
All victims have been sent to various hospitals and the cause of the incident is under investigation.
In February, four people were injured in an accident near the 69th Street Terminal involving three out-of-service commuter trains.
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