Rock hits SEPTA train, hurts engineer

Someone threw a rock through the front window of a moving SEPTA train in Philadelphia on Saturday, striking and injuring the engineer.

The injuries were minor, SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch said. He said the incident occurred just before 6 p.m. as the Trenton line train was passing 33d and Girard Avenue. The train stopped at 30th Street Station, and Busch said the engineer was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. There was no word late Saturday of whether he had been released.

Philadelphia police detectives were looking for the person or persons who threw the rock. "It's fairly rare," Busch said of the incident. "We do have instances of vandalism and things like that. But something like this - in terms of rocks being thrown at trains, especially one that's in service - it does not occur too frequently."
- Suzette Parmley