Another Pedestrian Killed by Caltrain

This morning around 6:45, a pedestrian was killed by a northbound Caltrain near the Mountain View train station. Train service was help up for about an hour afterwards and started up again around 8 and there were 20-30 minute delays afterwards. It's the twelfth death this year involving the trains. There were ten last year and according to the police, about 80% of them were suicides.

The rise in fatalities in recent years has caused people to call for better safety measures. The fact that most of the fatalities are due to suicide will probably call for other types of measures, somewhere along the lines of the debate over barriers on the Golden Gate Bridge to stop people from jumping.

To quote Sgt. Esterhaus from "Hill Street Blues," let's be careful out there.