Man Runs Into Path of Blue Line, Is Killed

A Blue Line train struck and killed a man at Vernon and Long Beach avenues in South-Central Los Angeles on Wednesday shortly after 8 p.m., just two blocks south of where a woman and her 4-year-old son were killed two weeks ago.

Witnesses said the man, whose identity was not released, had asked them when the next train was coming.

When he heard the train’s horn, he ran around a crossing gate and into its path, they said.

The woman and her son were killed Oct. 24 when she drove her car around a lowered crossing gate at 41st Street near Long Beach Avenue and into the path of a train.

This marked the fourth Blue Line-related death since the passenger train service began in mid-July.