Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
UPDATED: 12:41 p.m., Thursday:
Bristol Township police said early Thursday afternoon that a 65-year-old Bensalem man was the victim of a fatal strike by an Amtrak train near the Croydon station.
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Witness accounts indicate the incident may have been a suicide, Acting Chief of Police Sgt. Ralph Johnson said.
Original Story:
Investigators were called to the scene of a death Thursday on the train tracks in Bristol Township.
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The person was struck killed by an Amtrak train between the Croydon Train Station and Bensalem shortly before 10 a.m., officials said.
A SEPTA spokesperson said inbound service from Trenton to Center City, Philadelphia was suspended as of 10:30 a.m. Outbound service was in service with delays up to 30 minutes.
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The incident drew authorities from several different police, fire and emergency medical agencies.
Trenton: Inbound service is temporarily suspended due to police activity. Outbound service is operating with delays up to 30 minutes.
— SEPTA (@SEPTA_TRE) January 15, 2015
Amtrak may have hit someone on the tracks near Croydon PA I’m on the septa train going that way and they stopped the train and headed back
— Bill Nagorski (@BNagorski) January 15, 2015
