Train Takes Off with Woman's Arm Caught in Door

Written by Sam Strike

A woman’s arm got caught in a SEPTA train door Thursday morning at the Wayne Train Station as she attempted to catch an in-bound train on the Paoli/Thorndale Line regional rail line. 

According to a witness, around 9:10 a.m. a woman ran briskly through the parking lot and up the stairwell with a purse and a roll-on piece of luggage, toward the platform while yelling aloud to the train, “I’m coming! I’m here!” in an attempt to not miss the train.  

“I watched her get within inches of the open doors, and heard her say, ‘Oh thank you!’ but immediately the doors closed on her right arm (possibly wrist). I watched her unsuccessfully try to wiggle her arm free, and heard her begin to scream loudly and repeatedly, ‘Wait, my arm is stuck, my arm is stuck!’,” the witness wrote in a statement to Radnor Police.

Read more about what happened to the woman from the witnesses' account here on Radnor Patch.