Tracks Reopen In Mountain View Following Second Caltrain Fatality Monday
MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) -- Caltrain has reopened the northbound track at Mountain View at maximum authorized speed as of 8:25 p.m. Monday, following a fatal incident in which a train struck a person on the track at 7:48 p.m.
Mountain View police had been diverting motor traffic at Castro Street and Evelyn Avenue while the scene was under investigation.
The incident happened at 7:48 p.m., when a southbound train struck a person on the tracks near the Castro Street crossing in Mountain View.
It was the second fatality on Caltrain tracks on Monday.
A person was struck by a northbound train in Burlingame at 4:45 p.m.
No passengers reported injuries in either incident which were the eighth and ninth fatal strikes this year.
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