Train Kills Man Trying to Walk Across Tracks
A 55-year-old San Fernando man was killed Friday when he was struck by a train as he crossed a railroad track, police said.
Witnesses said the man was walking across the tracks at the Maclay Avenue crossing in San Fernando about 12:45 p.m. when he was hit by a southbound Southern Pacific train, thrown 100 feet and killed, police said.
Police did not release the man’s name because they had not yet notified his next of kin.
Witnesses told police the man stepped off a sidewalk and began crossing the tracks without looking up.
They said that when the train blew its horn several times, the man looked up, apparently disoriented, and tried to move out of the path of the oncoming train.
The signals at the train crossing were working properly, police said, and the train was traveling at 48 m.p.h.
Neither the train’s conductor nor its engineer was arrested, police said.
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