Video of @SFBART derailment pic.twitter.com/nPnI0WDc8n
— Tiffany Wilson (@TWilsonTV) May 20, 2017
If you were trying to ride BART Saturday afternoon or evening you were likely impacted by a derailment just outside Daly City Station that occurred just before 3 p.m. As KRON 4 reports, two cars of a nine-car Dublin/Pleasanton-bound train came off the tracks and the train was then stuck about 250 feet outside the station, leading to the need for single-tracking and system-wide delays throughout the rest of the day and evening.
BART spokesperson Taylor Huckaby told the Chronicle that it was two of the middle cars of the train, and that "The trucks, or wheel axles, came off of the rail several feet on two cars." BART was still investigating the cause, but it was not believed to be operator error.
No injuries were reported but there were 24 passengers on board the train at the time who all needed to be evacuated and escorted back to the station, as ABC 7 reported.
One passenger on the train told ABC 7 that his car "was jumping up and down, like pretty hard, and then it just stopped."
CBS 5 reports via some other passengers that the derailment caused smoke to enter the train, and that passengers all had to walk up to the front of the train to wait to be evacuated, which took 45 minutes.
Normal service resumed on Sunday after the disabled train was cleared.