At least eight people were injured on Sunday morning when a SEPTA trolley on the Norristown High Speed Line struck a bumper at the end of the tracks near the Norristown Transportation Center on Sunday morning, officials said.
According to Thomas O'Donnell, chief of the Norristown Fire Department, the incident happened when a SEPTA trolley struck the bumper near the Norristown Transit Center, located along Lafayette Street in Norristown on Sunday, May 11, 2025.
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WATCH HERE"We train with SEPTA. Every couple years we come down and go over everything and that’s why it went to seamless today" said Richard Lockhart, the deputy chief of the Norristown Fire Department. "It went very well on our end and with our EMS partners."
In an update from SEPTA, officials said eight people were hurt in the incident, including the trolley's operator, that happened at about 9:45 a.m. on Sunday.
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SIGN UP One of those injured was airlifted to a hospital with head and neck injuries, SEPTA officials said. The other injuries appeared to be minor.
SEPTA was running shuttle buses between the Norristown Transit Center and Bridgeport Station, but normal operations for the trolley route have resumed and the crash is not expected to impact the Monday morning commute, officials said.
However, the damaged trolley car remained on the tracks Monday morning.
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SEPTA's Interim General Manager Scott Sauer said the National Transportation Safety Board is launching an investigation into the crash.
"We have to run a lot of things through some inspections. We pulled video from the car. We will have to examine the car and, of course, look at what happened... do a more extensive interview with the operator," Sauer said.
"We take these incidents very seriously. We’re going to do everything we can to first figure out what happened and then put in steps to try to prevent it from happening again," he added. "Bottom line is we want to run a safe operation, and no incident is acceptable to us and we want to make sure everything’s safe."
NTSB investigators had arrived by Sunday night.
Editor's Note: The train struck a bumper on a track, not a vehicle's bumper as officials initially reported. The story has been updated to reflect this change.
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