BART Trains Delayed By Separate Incidents
POSTED: 2:38 pm PDT August 22, 2006
UPDATED: 10:12 pm PDT August 22, 2006
UNION CITY -- Bay Area Rapid Transit trains were running smoothly and on time Tuesday evening after an afternoon of delays following two separate incidents in which a person jumped in front of a train.
At the Union City BART station, a man in his 40s or 50s died after leaping from the platform into the path of a Richmond-bound train as it approached the station at 1:25 p.m., BART spokesman Linton Johnson said.
The train operator saw the man jump but was unable to stop in time, Johnson said. The man was the first apparent suicide of the year that BART police have handled, Johnson said.
Station platforms were evacuated and busses brought in to transport commuters. The station resumed normal operations at 4:14 p.m.
The second incident struck at 2:57 p.m. "while we were in the middle of dealing with the first, and just before the afternoon commute was to begin," Johnson said.
A 25-year-old woman jumped in front of a Daly City-bound train at the West Oakland BART station, Johnson said. Authorities pulled the "relatively unscathed" woman from beneath the train, Johnson said.
A suicide note was found nearby, Johnson said. The woman was taken for a psychiatric evaluation.
BART has not released the identity of either victim.
For about 30 minutes after the incident, no trains traveled between the East Bay and San Francisco. By 3:35 p.m., service was restored, but commuters faced delays of 40 minutes.
By 5 p.m., BART travel was "mostly back to normal," Johnson said.
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i was trying to get to pittsburg since noon so i can go to college at 5pm, i was 30mins late to class, its 1:16am, and i just got home.
just fucking great,i need to learn how to drive fucking long ass bart rides and slow fucking bussses. o and i stay in fremont, and union city bart is the next city over, it was so fucking ridicoulous,straight up looked like sum huricane katrina type shit,no busses,no water
POSTED: 2:38 pm PDT August 22, 2006
UPDATED: 10:12 pm PDT August 22, 2006
UNION CITY -- Bay Area Rapid Transit trains were running smoothly and on time Tuesday evening after an afternoon of delays following two separate incidents in which a person jumped in front of a train.
At the Union City BART station, a man in his 40s or 50s died after leaping from the platform into the path of a Richmond-bound train as it approached the station at 1:25 p.m., BART spokesman Linton Johnson said.
The train operator saw the man jump but was unable to stop in time, Johnson said. The man was the first apparent suicide of the year that BART police have handled, Johnson said.
Station platforms were evacuated and busses brought in to transport commuters. The station resumed normal operations at 4:14 p.m.
The second incident struck at 2:57 p.m. "while we were in the middle of dealing with the first, and just before the afternoon commute was to begin," Johnson said.
A 25-year-old woman jumped in front of a Daly City-bound train at the West Oakland BART station, Johnson said. Authorities pulled the "relatively unscathed" woman from beneath the train, Johnson said.
A suicide note was found nearby, Johnson said. The woman was taken for a psychiatric evaluation.
BART has not released the identity of either victim.
For about 30 minutes after the incident, no trains traveled between the East Bay and San Francisco. By 3:35 p.m., service was restored, but commuters faced delays of 40 minutes.
By 5 p.m., BART travel was "mostly back to normal," Johnson said.
Copyright 2006 by KTVU.com and Bay City News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed
i was trying to get to pittsburg since noon so i can go to college at 5pm, i was 30mins late to class, its 1:16am, and i just got home.
just fucking great,i need to learn how to drive fucking long ass bart rides and slow fucking bussses. o and i stay in fremont, and union city bart is the next city over, it was so fucking ridicoulous,straight up looked like sum huricane katrina type shit,no busses,no water
