Yet Another Fatality Reported on Peninsula Caltrain Tracks

A man was killed when he apparently jumped in front of a commuter train at a Mountain View Caltrain station Tuesday afternoon, a Caltrain spokeswoman said.

Northbound Caltrain No. 365 hit the pedestrian near the San Antonio station, Caltrain spokeswoman Jayme Ackemann said. Caltrain reported the collision at 4:49 p.m.

Witnesses told Caltrain employees that the man had been standing on the station platform and jumped as the train went through the station, Ackemann said.

The train was an express line scheduled to pass through the station without stopping.

Following the crash, trains were single-tracking on the southbound tracks through the area, causing delays for Tuesday evening’s commute, Ackemann said.

This makes for the fourth fatality on Peninsula-area Caltrain tracks in recent weeks.

Prior to this week, someone had been fatally struck on Caltrain tracks for three Mondays in a row. The first happened Feb. 23 in Menlo Park, the next on March 2 south of Blossom Hill and then on March 9 near Palo Alto.

A fourth crash also happened within that time frame, though that person survived.

There were 10 deaths on Caltrain tracks in all of 2014, eight of which were determined to be suicides, agency officials said.

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— Bay City News Service contributed to this report.

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