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According to the following Twitter message it did, Just this afternoon.
wlynes - "My @caltrain NB 261 just hit somebody. It's going to be a long trip. No sudden stop immediately prior, he must have been timing it."
RyanInSF - "#caltrain the death train claims another victim"
cydeweyz - "Caltrain: The guy is dead. He's under the 5th train over.'"
juliunruly - "christ almighty. RT @caltrain Fatality on the tracks south of Milbrae T16:55."
nopayne - "God damnit, Caltrain, can't you go a single week without taking someone out? I'm rolling with BART today."
KCBSNews - "...Caltrain accident happened NORTHbound at Bellevue in San Mateo. All trains being held right now."
Also -- and it goes without saying, but we will -- Caltrain's schedule will be wonky today. Please reroute your way home, check your train times.
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WTF people?!?! It's not Caltrain's fault!
agreed. It's not like we're talking about MUNI.
said in half-jest
Very true, bwsf, but, "stupid person dies" doesn't pull in the page views!
I'm picturing Caltrain stalking the streets of the peninsula late at night, looking for its next victim.
they should put a track right thru SF cityhall
cry moar, neocon.
How come we never have "Private Automobile Strikes Again" stories every time someone gets killed in a car accident?
It's notable to me, because for the number of miles it travels and the number of passengers it serves, it seems like there are an awful lot of accidents on Caltrain. The only system that I have experience with that has more passenger fatalities annually is NJ Transit, but with considerably more miles of track and significantly more passengers per day.
It points to an infrastructure problem with regional rails (same as NJ Transit)... if you're going to have trains that run through towns at street level and through traffic, you just can't adequately protect people from themselves.
It's not "accidents", it's people throwing themselves in front of a train. Maybe Caltrain should fund a free shuttle to the GGB.
I think Houston's METRORail takes the annual crashes per track mile prize.
The proximity of traffic and city centers on the Caltrain line doesn't help; but if people are going to jump in front of a train, Caltrain isn't going to be able to stop it, as appears to be the case here. Caltrain has already recently tried improving safety measures (increasing the decibel levels of the horns on trains, improving signals, etc.) but if someone wants to meet their maker riding the rails, there's not much else they can do.
Where's that moronic asshat who wants a net hanging over the GG bridge beating his drum today? If we hung a safety net around the Caltrain tracks then baby deer and cute little chipmunks would be safe forever.