Caltrain Claims Another Life

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Proving that this newfangled locomotive technology will do society more harm than good, Catrain confirmed this morning that a woman was struck and killed by a train at a Palo Alto railroad crossing yesterday. According to reports, "[a] northbound train struck the victim who had apparently made her way on to the tracks near a crossing at East Meadow Drive at around 9:55 p.m." This makes the fourth train-related fatality of 2009.

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Typo: Caltrain Claims Another Life
Fixed: Another dumba-- gets killed wandering where they don't belong.

How come SFist doesn't report every time someone dies on a bay area freeway?

"Freeway claims another life"

"This is the 2149th freeway-related fatality of 2009."

That's exactly what I was going to post.
There have certainly been more than 4 fatal car crashes in the first 5 months of 2009.
Suicide by train is a very sad part of our reality.

Caltrain doesn't kill people, stupidity kills people...

Do you know that there was a rail fatality on Memorial Day in Sunnyvale? An elderly man intent on committing suicide near the Home Depot parking lot in Sunnyvale, walked onto the Caltrain tracks and was struck by a northbound train? He was transported to Stanford Hospital where he died of a head injury.

How come Caltrain did not notify the press of this incident. Are they trying to hide something? Is Christine Dunn trying to hide something? What goes on at Caltrain...

And according to the Caltrain twitter feed last night, there was another death at the Menlo Park station around 5:00.

I followed it on twitter too. But I'm not seeing it anywhere in the news.

It's strange because riders were reporting seeing coroners and everything.

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