PHILADELPHIA — Three teen-agers killed by an Amtrak train had marijuana and the hallucinogen PCP in their systems, according to toxicology reports.
“They were certainly impaired, to the point where they may not have been aware of the approaching train,” Bucks County coroner Joseph Campbell said. “It’s a dangerous spot down there to begin with.”
According to a wire service, Raymond Kostar, 13, Eric Hopwood, 15, and Dan Slater, 19, all of Morrisville, were among five teens walking along the tracks in a suburb northeast of Philadelphia on Dec. 9. The three were struck when the train, traveling at 100 mph, rounded a curve behind them. The others escaped uninjured.
Campbell said the teens had been smoking marijuana. Slater and Hopwood also had substantial levels of PCP in their systems, and all three had low levels of alcohol, Campbell said.
None of the 300 passengers on the train from Boston to Washington, D.C., was injured.