Thursday, March 12, 2015

WOMAN TRESPASSER WAS STRUCK AND KILLED BY TRAIN IN DEL MAR, CALIFORNIA





MARCH 12, 2015

DEL MAR, CALIFORNIA

One North County Transit District passenger says he was delayed by an hour and a half this morning in his train commute from Carlsbad to the Torrey Pines area, after a woman was struck by a train in the Del Mar area.  Obviously a suicide by train or a drunk or drugged person.  She will not do that again.

The train struck the woman early Thursday in Del Mar and some morning Coaster trains were canceled, the transit agency confirmed.

Kevin Anderson said train accidents happen often enough that the agency should have protocol in place when they occur. Anderson is a medical professional at a busy hospital and says he needs to be at work on time.

"If it happened between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., that's enough time to get adequate buses by 8 a.m.," he said. "Why doesn't NCTD have a protocol in place for this situation?"