Taxi Blocks Train Tracks, Shuts Down SEPTA Regional Rail Service
By Mike Dougherty
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- Service was suspended for more than an hour this morning on SEPTA's Chestnut Hill East line because a car was blocking the tracks... 35 feet up an embankment.
Authorities are trying to figure out how a driver went up an enbankment then drove on to the tracks.
"This was a car from the Germantown Taxi Cab Company blocking two tracks on the Chestnut Hill East line about 35 feet up in the air," says SEPTA spokesman Manny McDonnell Smith.
McDonnell Smith says the train was able to stop before hitting the car which was disabled on the tracks.
"Had to be kind of towed off of the tracks," he says. "It had heavy front end damage."
He says engineers took about 70 minutes to inspect and reopen the tracks. No word yet on if the driver will be charged.