Local News in Brief : Tustin : Man Killed by Train as Horn Goes Unheeded

A man was killed Sunday morning when he was struck by an Amtrak passenger train about half a mile east of Red Hill Avenue in Tustin, police said.

The victim, whose name was being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was struck about 11 a.m. when he did not get out of the path of the train “even though he was warned by the train’s horn several times,” Tustin Police Officer Brian Meder said.

The county coroner’s office is investigating the incident, he said.

The death marks the fourth fatality involving pedestrians and trains in the county this year. On March 30, James Boyle, 10, of Santa Ana was struck and killed as he and three other boys tried to outrun a southbound Amtrak train on a railroad trestle in Santa Ana, near Santiago Park and about 2 miles north of the Santa Ana Amtrak station.

On April 17, a 31-year-old transient, later identified as Bryan George Tully, was struck and killed by an Amtrak passenger train as he walked on tracks a mile north of the Amtrak station in San Juan Capistrano.

On Aug. 16, Harley Edward Duggan, 50, also a transient, was lying on the tracks when he was struck by northbound locomotive traveling 40 to 50 m.p.h. at Las Vegas Avenue east of San Juan Creek and north of Coast Highway in Capistrano Beach.

In another train-related incident, Jose Guerrero, 21, of Santa Ana was struck and his legs severed Sept. 23 as he tried to jump off a freight train near 1400 South Village Way in Santa Ana.