{"id":142188,"date":"2026-01-20T22:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142188\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:39:14","slug":"train-strikes-and-kills-pedestrian-in-west-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142188\/","title":{"rendered":"Train strikes and kills pedestrian in West Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TwoAuthorities at the scene of a fatal train strike Monday in Berkeley. Credit: Staci Prado\/BeFree Photography by Staci<\/p>\n

A man was killed Monday when a Union Pacific train struck him near Hearst Avenue.<\/p>\n

Berkeley police received a call that a train had hit someone near the University Avenue overpass shortly before 11:40 a.m., according to a department spokesperson. When officers arrived at the tracks, they found the dead man and notified the Union Pacific Police Department.<\/p>\n

The man had been \u201ctrespassing on the train tracks,\u201d Jill Micek, a Union Pacific spokesperson, said in an email.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe train crew was not hurt, but witnessed the incident and is being offered support,\u201d Micek wrote.<\/p>\n

The man had not been identified as of Tuesday morning, according to the Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s Coroner\u2019s Bureau.<\/p>\n

Trespassing in railroad rights of way \u201cis the leading cause of rail-related deaths\u201d nationwide, according to the Federal Railroad Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An Amtrak train fatally struck another man last month<\/a> just four blocks away, near the Bancroft Way crossing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRelated stories<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Amtrak\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tAmtrak train fatally strikes man in West Berkeley<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tDecember 4, 2025Dec. 4, 2025, 12:04 p.m.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Person\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tPerson hit, critically injured by BART train at North Berkeley station<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tJune 9, 2025June 9, 2025, 4:09 p.m.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"New\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tNew safety measures, but no \u2018quiet zones,\u2019 planned for West Berkeley rail crossings<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tSeptember 9, 2024Sept. 11, 2024, 12:48 p.m.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

“*” indicates required fields<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Avatar\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlex N. Gecan joined Berkeleyside in 2023 as a senior reporter covering public safety. He has covered criminal justice, courts and breaking and local news for The Middletown Press, Stamford Advocate and…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Alex N. Gecan\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities at the scene of a fatal train strike Monday in Berkeley. Credit: Staci Prado\/BeFree Photography by Staci…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7872,2465,143,145,144,51540,8387],"class_list":{"0":"post-142188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-berkeley-police-department","9":"tag-home-highlight","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-union-pacific","14":"tag-west-berkeley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}