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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

All right, today is July 28th, a Friday.

Good morning in the news this morning.

There's been another accident in a septa vehicle.

This is the fifth in just a week.

Jeez. A runaway septa trolley crashed into a historic home in southwest Philadelphia on Thursday night. I know when they started counting the number of accidents and then this morning when I heard fifth, like as soon as I heard fifth, I'm like, please don't tell me it's another second vehicle. But sure enough it is.

Official said the trolley was out of service when it crashed at about 1045 in the evening near island and Woodland Avenues. There was a mechanic on board, but no one was driving, according to Septa Chief Operating Officer Scott Sauer. They were talking to a guy who's been working with the SEPTA for decades. And he says, I've never seen a week like this never the trolley

was coming from the septa elmwood depot about a half a mile away from the home official said the

trolley derailed struck an SUV injuring two people inside and then slammed into a historic home

the woman living inside of the house called 911 septa official said she was not injured. The mechanic on board did suffer injuries, but he's

expected to be okay. The trolley is just about twice as long as the historic home it crashed

into. The house, known as the Bluebell Tavern, dates back to 1766 and was the location of a

battle during the Revolutionary War, according to the Darby Creek Valley Association.

The oldest section of the structure still stands and was also a main stagecoach road between

Philadelphia and the southern colonies. Septa officials said that they haven't seen anything

like this and that the trolleys are usually reliable. Septa is now working to get to the bottom

of what went wrong.

Roads in the area of the crash remain closed this morning. Thursday night's trolley,

trolley crash is the fifth septa crash in less than a week. The footage is pretty wild.

Yeah. You see it plowing into the building and I saw them interviewing a guy who was like, man,

it was like the thing came alive. Yes. It's like there was no one driving it. It took off on its own. I know. Maybe it was a transformer, Casey. Oh, could be? Yeah. Oh my God. What transformer? No one was driving. Yeah, yeah. He said it was just like, you know, it was, yeah, it was self-aware. It felt left out.

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