Horror as father and his two adult children are struck and killed by high-speed Amtrak train

A Pennsylvania family is mourning the nonaccomplishment of their begetter and his 2 sons aft each 3 were struck and killed by an Amtrak bid successful what constabulary called a 'horrific tragedy.'

The household of 3 were fatally struck by the high-speed Acela train, which tin scope speeds of up to 150mph, bound from Boston to Richmond, Virginia, astatine astir 6:10 p.m. adjacent Bristol Station. 

Christopher Cramp, 56, and his 2 sons, David, 30, and Thomas, 24, were identified arsenic the victims successful the tragic incidental by friends and household connected societal media. 

Sabrina Gartner, posted astir losing her begetter and 2 brothers connected Facebook, she wrote: 'Losing the 3 of you is crazy. Forever loved and volition beryllium missed!' 

They were spotted arsenic Bristol Borough constabulary responded to reports of radical connected the tracks astatine Beaver and Prospect streets conscionable earlier 6pm. 

Police were walking up onto the obstruction enactment to region them from the tracks erstwhile they saw each 3 radical struck by the train, Police Chief Joe Moors said astatine a property league connected Thursday night. 

'When our officers arrived, the sergeant was starting to caput up to the subjects up connected the railroad tracks erstwhile an Acela high-speed bid traveling southbound towards Philadelphia struck each 3 subjects that were up connected the track,' Moors said, according to WHYY. 

Moors added that the tracks would beryllium closed for 'several hours' portion an probe took spot into the 'horrific tragedy'.

'This is simply a horrific tragedy,' helium added, portion incapable to supply further details during the progressive investigation. 

A person of the household posted: 'Can't slumber with you connected my caput bro. This don't consciousness existent antheral I conscionable was chilling with [on] Monday.

'Love [you] antheral accidental hullo to moms for maine and Brandon and Erica... Rest casual bro we each emotion you and volition ne'er beryllium forgotten.' 

'Dave, I can't picture you with capable words,' different person wrote. 

'You volition beryllium missed for a fact. Keep ya chin up and archer maine astir what happened erstwhile I conscionable you up determination someday.' 

'Much emotion you were thing but existent each the time, can't beryllium replaced.' 

Passengers onboard the bid were moved to adjacent bid stations, either northbound to Tullytown oregon southbound to Croydon, according to police.

One passenger, Shauna Hailey, told ABC 6: 'All of a sudden, the bid came to a staggering stop, and you knew thing was wrong.' 

'I deliberation everyone connected the bid is conscionable successful daze arsenic to this really happened. You perceive astir these things happening, but you don't truly expect to beryllium connected the bid erstwhile it happens,' she added. 

Hailey praised the bid crew's response, but said she was astir acrophobic astir those affected by the victims' death. 

'This is not an casual thing. I consciousness horrible for the families involved, for the Amtrak employees,' she said. 

'I bash anticipation that the engineer, who is successful complaint of the train, gets each the assistance they whitethorn need.'

None of the 236 passengers oregon unit members connected committee the bid were injured, according to a connection from Amtrak spokesperson Beth Toll. 

Toll furthered that bid work has resumed, and Amtrak Police is starring the investigation.

Currently, it remains unclear wherefore the household of 3 were connected the bid tracks.