Woman Survives After Falling Under Train

Local woman falls under a moving Septa train and survives.

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According to Biswanger, the train started moving out before she had a chance to get off.  She struggled down the steps with her suitcase because there was no conductor in sight.

“I started to step down and heard the buzzer sound that the conductor signals to the engineer that it’s OK to move the train and almost instantaneously, the train starts moving” said Biswanger.

She said she was thrown onto the gravel between the platform and the rails and watched terrified, as the edge of the train went over her body.

"Mostly I was thinking, is there something on the undercarriage of the train, something’s going to hit me, when the pain is going to start, what’s it going to feel like, it is going to cut off my legs, am going to be mangled.  You know, I even had this mental image of myself in a wheel chair” said Biswanger.

Septa says it has launched an investigation and is working with police and the members of the train crew to determine what happened.

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