Politics & Government

News Next Door: SEPTA Talks Safety After Trains Hit People

Hatboro saw three pedestrians struck within a month.

After a  in Hatboro within a month, SEPTA officials said Tuesday that they hope to better educate the community on the dangers of trespassing on SEPTA-owned railroad tracks.

“People don’t go swimming in the ocean when there’s sharks,” said Jim Fox, SEPTA’s director of system safety and risk management. The same idea, he said, should be applied to the train tracks, not only at the , but all SEPTA tracks in the five-county region.

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