BURBANK – A woman who was fatally struck by an\u00a0 Antelope Valley Line train was sitting on the tracks, police said Friday.<\/p>\n
The crash was reported at 7:57 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, just south of the Downtown Burbank station at 201 N. Front St., according to Metrolink spokesman Chris Gutierrez.<\/p>\n
Lydia Savadjian<\/strong>, 33, of Glendale died at the scene, said coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter.<\/p>\n Savadjian was struck by the Antelope Valley Line Train 225, which was carrying 125 passengers on its way to Lancaster, Gutierrez said. No one on board was injured.<\/p>\n Burbank police Sgt. Derek Green said Savadjian was struck near the station platform.<\/p>\n “As the train approached the Downtown Burbank station, its engineer saw a female sitting on the railroad tracks,” Green said in a statement. “The engineer sounded the train’s horn to alert the woman, but she was fatally struck.”<\/p>\n An investigation was conducted by Burbank police, Metrolink, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.<\/p>\n “It is not certain whether Savadjian’s actions were intentional or accidental,” Green said. “It is also not known if drugs and\/or alcohol were factors in this incident. The investigation is ongoing.”<\/p>\n The crash was in an area “where a pedestrian should not be,” said Gutierrez.<\/p>\n Metrolink secured buses for the passengers on board. That train and two others experienced delays while an investigation was conducted.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BURBANK – A woman who was fatally struck by an\u00a0 Antelope Valley Line train was sitting on the tracks, police said Friday. The crash was reported at 7:57 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, just south of the Downtown Burbank station at 201 N. Front St., according to Metrolink spokesman Chris Gutierrez. Lydia Savadjian, 33, of Glendale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":69018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}