Crime & Safety
Young Churchville Man Killed By Train
A 22-year-old Churchville resident was killed after being struck by a train in Hatboro Wednesday morning.
For the second time in three days, by a commuter rail train on the SEPTA tracks between Willow Grove and Warminster.
The victim is believed to be a 22-year-old resident of Churchville, Montgomery County Coroner Dr. Walter Hofman told Patch Wednesday evening. Hofman said the name of the victim is being withheld until dental records can be obtained and final confirmation of the victim's identity can be made.
The young man died of several injuries resulting from the strike, the coroner said. Hofman said he could not yet release whether the death was a suicide, and more information would be made available sometime Thursday.
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Emergency crews were dispatched for reports of a pedestrian struck by a southbound train several hundred yards from shortly before 7 a.m.
On Monday, Scott Stevens, 24, of Warminster, was by a Warminster-bound SEPTA train in about a mile away in Upper Moreland.
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This morning's incident marks the fifth person struck and the fourth fatality on the stretch of tracks near the Hatboro train station. Authorities have said two of the deaths were and two were where individuals were walking on the tracks listening to music and did not hear the train approaching.