{"id":96629,"date":"2020-10-05T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=96629"},"modified":"2020-10-05T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:56:50","slug":"man-struck-killed-by-freight-train-in-palmdale-idd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/10\/05\/man-struck-killed-by-freight-train-in-palmdale-idd\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck, killed by freight train in Palmdale ID&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_96633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96633\" style=\"width: 875px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96633\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train.jpg 875w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Image by BRYAN HALL]<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE &#8211; The man struck and killed by a freight train in Palmdale Saturday afternoon has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>He was 31-year-old <strong>Anthony Alboniga<\/strong> of Palmdale, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal incident happened around 12 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Sierra Highway crossing at Palmdale Boulevard, according to Metrolink spokesman Scott Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Alboniga apparently walked in front of a Union Pacific freight train and was killed, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The freight train belonged to Union Pacific but the resulting track closure impacted Metrolink service through the nearby Palmdale Station at 39000 Clock Tower Plaza Drive, Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Antelope Valley line 266 from Lancaster to Los Angeles Union Station was canceled and Metrolink bused passengers around the closure, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Line 263 was held in Acton until the track was cleared just after 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, and line 268 was delayed about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The crew of the train was not injured, according to Union Pacific spokesman Tim McMahan.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_96631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96631\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96631\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-1-768x460.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[BRYAN HALL]<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure id=\"attachment_96632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96632\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96632\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-2.jpg 864w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-2-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Palmdale-ped-vs-freight-train-2-768x439.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[BRYAN HALL]<\/figcaption><\/figure>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8211; The man struck and killed by a freight train in Palmdale Saturday afternoon has been identified. He was 31-year-old Anthony Alboniga of Palmdale, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner&#8217;s Office. The fatal incident happened around 12 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Sierra Highway crossing at Palmdale Boulevard, according to Metrolink spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96633,"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":[719,1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96629"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}