Caltrain 314 hit and killed a woman this morning, stopping train traffic in both directions for more than 90mn. We were on the train, and were allowed to leave at about 9am in Redwood City, to be picked by a bus or ride our bicycles the rest of the way.

Our condolences go to the family of the victim; on the train, the conductor first announced the delay was due to some slight medical emergency, which wins the understatement of the year award. Insensitiveness awards goes to the guy sitting across from us, who sighed looks like we'll be here for a while. Memo to this guy: we ran over a pedestrian, maybe we are not in such a rush. Actually, the insensitiveness award is shared with the guy on his cell phone who was bragging: I felt it! I felt it!. Dumb ass, if you knew better to gloat about a tragedy, and if you knew just a bit of physics, you knew you felt the engineer hitting the brakes.

Anyone else thinks that Caltrain has a wee security issue here?

Picture of the scene at Redwood City from CBS 5