Not Good: Freight Train derailed in Bensalem County with 13 cars off the tracks and there’s a shelter in place order with hazmat teams on the scene

A CSX freight train derailed in Bensalem Township on Tuesday afternoon around 2 PM near East Bristol Road and Grove Avenue by the Neshaminy Falls Train Station with at least 13 cars coming off the tracks and hazmat teams responding because Bucks County Emergency Management is classifying this as a hazardous materials incident.

No injuries have been reported so far but residents in the area are being told to go inside immediately, close all windows, doors, and vents, turn off their air conditioning, and shelter in place until further notice because officials haven’t identified exactly what’s in the train cars yet and are still assessing the situation.

Freight Train Derailed in Bensalem Township

#BREAKING A freight train derailed in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, prompting a local shelter-in-place order.

At least 5 to 10 cars are off the tracks between Street Road and the Neshaminy Falls train station.

Hazmat teams are actively responding to evaluate the stability…

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Here’s the part that caught my attention though.

Officials haven’t revealed what material the train was carrying but they did warn residents that “possible exposure may cause difficulty breathing, loss of coordination and a burning sensation in the eyes, nose, throat or lungs.”

I see news reporters out there trying to play it cool like nothing is wrong but who knows? Are we just going to trust public officials because that definitely doesn’t sound great.

In fact that sounds pretty fucking terrible and the casual way that warning was included in the official statement like it was a side note rather than the most important sentence in the entire press release is kind of wild.

Any time I’m reading “difficulty breathing and loss of coordination,” its hard to consider that a minor inconvenience, right? Seems like more of a thing that should probably be in bold at the top of every notification going out to people who live within a mile of this derailment.

They basically told residents of Bensalem “hey, we don’t know what’s in the train cars but if you breathe the air outside you might lose the ability to coordinate your body and your lungs might feel like they’re on fire, so maybe close your windows and stay inside for a while.”

Sick. I actually work up here. Can’t be good!

Bristol Road is closed between Brownsville Road and Old Lincoln Highway, a staging area has been set up at the Neshaminy Mall, SEPTA suspended service on the West Trenton Line even though they don’t use those specific tracks, and Chopper 6 footage showed at least 10 cars visibly derailed from the air.

Police, firefighters, medics, and hazmat teams are all on scene and nobody has said what caused the derailment or given any timeline for when residents can stop sheltering in place and open their windows again.

If you’re in the Bensalem area, stay inside, keep everything closed, don’t run your AC, and wait for the all-clear because whatever is in those train cars is apparently bad enough that the county is treating this like a hazmat situation and warning people about respiratory symptoms before they even know what the chemical is.

Hopefully this gets resolved quickly without anyone getting hurt and the hazmat teams figure out what they’re dealing with before the wind shifts and carries whatever is leaking from those cars into the city of Philadelphia.

Stay safe out there, Bensalem.

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