SUNLAND : Boy on Bicycle Killed by Metrolink Train
Ignoring an engineer’s warning signals, a boy rode his bicycle around a railroad crossing barrier in Sunland and was killed Wednesday by a Metrolink train traveling about 50 m.p.h, authorities said.
Witnesses told authorities that the unidentified youth ignored warning signs not to cross the tracks at Sunland Boulevard and San Fernando Road. The victim’s body was thrown about 200 feet by the impact of the Los Angels-bound train, Hidalgo said.
The train was slowing as it approached the new Burbank station about 6 p.m., Hidalgo said. The posted speed limit in the area for Metrolink trains is 59 m.p.h., he added. None of the 30 passengers or crew members aboard the train, carrying passengers from Santa Clarita, were injured, Hidalgo said.
There have been 14 fatal accidents since Metrolink began operations in October, 1992, half of them declared suicides by the county coroner’s office.
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