Amtrak suspended service for several hours between Penn Station in New York and the main rail station in Philadelphia after one of its trains struck and killed a father and two of his adult sons in Bristol, Pa., on Thursday.
The Bucks County coroner on Friday identified the three people as Christopher Cramp, 56, and David Cramp, 31, whose deaths were ruled as accidental, and Thomas Cramp, 24, who officials said died by suicide. All three died from multiple blunt impact injuries, the coroner said.
The three were struck around 6:10 p.m. near Bristol Station, according to an Amtrak spokeswoman. The train was traveling from Boston to Richmond, Va. There were no reported injuries among the 236 passengers and crew members on the train, the spokeswoman added.
The police were responding to a call around 5:58 p.m. that multiple people were on the train tracks, said Chief Joe Moors of the Bristol Borough police. As officers walked up the hill to the tracks, Chief Moors said, they saw the train hit all three people. Bristol is a small community about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia.
Train service resumed at restricted speeds between New York and Philadelphia about four hours later, Amtrak said. The suspension effectively halted traffic along the midpoint of the Northeast Corridor, the busiest train line in the country.
Passengers on the train involved in the incident were moved to nearby train stations, either north to Tullytown or south to Croydon, Chief Moors said at a news conference on Thursday.
This is the second fatal train strike in Bucks County this week. In neighboring Bensalem, Pa., on Wednesday, an Amtrak train traveling from Washington to Boston struck and killed a man near Cornwells Heights Station.
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources.
Neil Vigdor contributed reporting.
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