An crash involving a car and a SEPTA trolley has left one man dead and two others injured early Friday morning in West Philadelphia’s Cathedral Park neighborhood.
Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small tells CBS News Philadelphia officers and medics were called to the 5100 block of Lancaster Avenue just before 1:30 a.m. for a report of an crash involving a trolley and a car. They found a 32-year-old male victim lying on the sidewalk next to a GMC SUV that had heavy front-end damage. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Small says preliminary information indicates that the man in the GMC was traveling westbound on Lancaster Avenue and, for some reason, swerved into the eastbound lanes of the roadway, striking the trolley traveling eastbound head-on. The GMC then spun out, the man was ejected and the vehicle came to rest on the sidewalk…