Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, August 29, 2013, 8:21 AM
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Update: Train service resumes after pedestrian struck and killed in Palo Alto
Original post made on Aug 29, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, August 29, 2013, 8:21 AM
Comments (10)
a resident of Monta Loma
on Aug 29, 2013 at 11:12 am
Not again...I just hope the kids don't continue this trend from some years back.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Aug 29, 2013 at 2:14 pm
a stop sign for the trains with blinking lights when pedestrians cross. Was the woman on her cell phone? Was this premeditated?
a resident of another community
on Aug 29, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Yet another example of train engineers driving recklessly, shamelessly ignoring pedestrian safety. Why are they always in such a hurry? They need to slow down so pedestrians can cross safely. What we need are more stop signs on those tracks, or better still, let's reduce the number of tracks so those trains just can't go so fast.
a resident of Martens-Carmelita
on Aug 29, 2013 at 3:35 pm
Maher is a registered user.
These 'accidents' at this specific, very accessible intersection happen too often in my view. Each of them, whether a teen or an elderly person or an adult, begin to look like carefully timed suicides.
Flashing lights and lowered gates are sufficient warning to anyone, in a car or on foot to stop and wait for the train to pass, before attempting to cross the RR tracks. Traditionally, these warnings of approaching trains give the trains the right of way. Cross traffic is supposed to STOP... period.
I do not normally side with corporate concerns vav folks but in this case I am very suspicious about suicide as the main dynamic It's time to stop blaming the train drivers and start looking for strange behaviors of people on foot around these intersections.
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Aug 29, 2013 at 3:37 pm
What is needed are pedestrian over or underpasses. Also have a special suicide platform for EZ clean-up and no disruption of service.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Aug 29, 2013 at 6:09 pm
The only way to stop these Caltrain accidents or suicides is to get rid of the at-grade crossings. Note that you almost never hear of such accidents involving BART. Unfortunately, it would be prohibitively expensive to modify all the crossings.
a resident of Gemello
on Aug 29, 2013 at 7:48 pm
How sad that there was the loss of a human life in this accident.
May she rest in peace.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Aug 29, 2013 at 9:24 pm
Greg David is a registered user.
Yet another another Caltrain suicide reported incorrectly.
A woman apparently COMMITTED SUICIDE when she STEPPED IN FRONT OF AN ONCOMING TRAIN.
Why do they always have to sugar coat it. Suicide and depression that leads to it is a horrible thing, but trains don't kill people. People commit suicide by stepping in front of them.....
a resident of another community
on Aug 30, 2013 at 2:14 pm
AC is a registered user.
I'm surprised that this article isn't updated with the corresponding Palo Alto Weekly when it's the same news agency.
A 12-year old girl was, according the other article, an eyewitness to the event, who reported that the woman appeared to have committed suicide by train.
a resident of Slater
on Jun 6, 2017 at 5:02 am
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