Forty-six people were injured this afternoon when two trolleys collided near 38th and Lancaster in Powelton, according to SEPTA and media reports. Two Route 10 trolleys were traveling in the same direction when one rear-ended the other, according to a report by Metro. The incident was reported at around 1:30 p.m.
Fortunately, none of the injuries is life-threatening, according to SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch. Some of the injured were taken to local hospitals for treatment. The trolleys were traveling at low speeds when they collided. Among those injured were the two trolley drivers.
One of the trolleys sustained damage in the collision, Metro reports.
January 5th, 2017 at 12:19 pm
Could this lead to a potential personal injury claim against SEPTA? Would an attorney have some involvement should a claim arise from injuries sustained? Sorry
January 6th, 2017 at 11:30 am
I mean, people sue SEPTA all the time, so I can imagine people will do that here depending on the outcome of any investigation into the cause of the accident. There are multiple cameras on the vehicles though, so any truly fraudulent claims will be tough to substantiate in court.
January 6th, 2017 at 12:09 pm
I know one time my grandmother got really hurt when a 59 bus she was on stopped suddenly at Cottman and the Boulevard. She had to go to Gentle Bear (her orthopod) who fit her for a neck brace and told her to wear it for 6 weeks and to keep it in case she went to trial. She wore it into the courtroom but only as an exhibit and I was at the trial but I was pretty young and she ended up settling with SEPTA before Dr. Bear was called to testify about her neck. I learned many years later that it was a mock trial designed to determine if an impartial jury could make an objective determination based on clinical diagnoses since my grandmother couldn’t have x-rays or ct scans because of her pace maker. It turns out SEPTA was motivated to settle in order to not have to pay their expert doctor almost two thousand dollars to testify that her injuries were the result of degeneration. She had sacroiliac and whiplash in her neck. Luckily she lived in a rancher and was near a bus stop because she couldn’t walk too far for about ten weeks. She could take the bus to Franklin Mills.