{"id":532626,"date":"2026-01-21T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/532626\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:19:10","slug":"man-killed-after-falling-off-subway-platform-and-being-hit-by-train-in-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/532626\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed after falling off subway platform and being hit by train in Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed after he fell off a subway platform in Philadelphia and was hit by a train early Wednesday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Police Department said Terrell Burton, 41, got off a SEPTA Broad Street Line train around 1:30 a.m. as it arrived at the Hunting Park Station. Police said he then stepped backward and fell into the space between the subway car and the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Burton was then struck and run over by the train as it began moving southbound, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the city&#8217;s fire department responded to the accident and pronounced Burton dead at 2:03 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The accident remains under investigation by the police department&#8217;s crash investigation division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed after he fell off a subway platform in Philadelphia and was hit by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":532627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,114892,1448,2830,1311,15940,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-532626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-hunting-park","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-septa","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115934236805258304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}