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Pedestrian struck by Metrolink train

by City News Service • December 31, 2015

fatal train crossingPALMDALE – A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metrolink train near Palmdale Wednesday evening, authorities said.

The victim was struck by Train 215 on the Antelope Valley Line about 6:05 p.m. at the Rancho Vista grade crossing, according to Metrolink and the watch commander at the Sheriff’s Transit Services Bureau.

Metrolink described the death as the result of a “fatal trespassing incident.”

It was not immediately clear why the person was on the tracks.

The fatality disrupted train service between the Palmdale and Lancaster stations and led to multiple cancellations on the Antelope Valley Line, according to Metrolink.

Only trains 205 and 206 were operating Thursday morning.

“Equipment was unable to reach it’s final storage location, causing a lack of equipment out of Lancaster and Los Angeles… Now that tracks are open we are moving equipment to resume a regular weekday afternoon service,” Metrolink officials stated Thursday in a Facebook message.

For timely status updates on Metrolink’s Antelope Valley Line, visit: https://www.facebook.com/Metrolink

The pedestrian’s identity has not yet been released, coroner’s officials said Thursday afternoon.

 

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Filed Under: Palmdale

12 comments for "Pedestrian struck by Metrolink train"

  1. Joseph says

    January 5, 2016 at 1:53 pm

    I believe its cause we house alot of mental health people and they all live along our rail

    • Charlotte Schreffler says

      February 3, 2016 at 5:05 pm

      My good close friend, a women 52, I knew for 9 yrs was killed there two yrs today. She was living there I Palmdale to be close to her daughters and 8 grandchildren. She was very much loved, and very much missed. She was a good person to everyone she met. I was in Palmdale before, a few times to visit Gerrie,. The town looks like any other. I lived in Fresno, till Jan. then moved with a family member in another town in Cal. May God Bless you all.

      • Charlotte Schreffler says

        February 3, 2016 at 5:07 pm

        Sorry my mistake. It will be 2 yrs on the 4th, she was killed. I miss her so much.

  2. AVHater4Life says

    January 1, 2016 at 4:38 pm

    Trains are 10 feet wide and only go 2 predictable, set directions. I never understood how people get hit by trains. Of course, I’m not competing for the Darwin Award.

  3. jimmy G says

    January 1, 2016 at 3:11 pm

    Cars, trains, alcohol, tobacco, planes… people are going to die because those things exist… are their lives worth the luxury we get from those things? How many people would live every year if we didn’t have any of them?

    • Ryan Hunt says

      January 3, 2016 at 11:00 pm

      How overpopulated would OUR world be if we did not have those luxuries?

      • Laughing says

        January 4, 2016 at 1:25 pm

        Actually population would go down since more time is spent walking or riding a horse or bike to get from point A to point B for that random hookup!

    • Charlotte Schreffler says

      February 3, 2016 at 5:12 pm

      I am sorry for all who get killed by any train. Some people go around the arms, when they are down. I do not know why my friend did that. Her cart was stuck on the tracks. The trains can hit a cart but it does not damage a train or riders. May God Bless you all.

  4. Tim Scott says

    January 1, 2016 at 1:02 pm

    Seems pretty strange. Can anyone think where a pedestrian might be coming from and going to that would involve crossing the tracks there? It isn’t like people who work at Lockheed or that industrial park or going to be walking to work and back.

    • Flint says

      January 1, 2016 at 7:21 pm

      Probably the corrupt cops of antelope valley pushed him, and they are covering their tracks.im sure one person on here, will connect the dots.

  5. Peyo DuPont says

    January 1, 2016 at 8:36 am

    I was on that bazaar train ride. I thought by getting on the Lancaster stop on the Metrolink train–verse waiting on the AV local bus…which is never reliable. We sat on that train while people smoke tobacco, others had health related issues, that resulted in ambulance escorts. This is wild and outrageous. God bless the dead, though, I wanna know what was the cause?

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