OAKLAND \u2014 A woman was killed Friday afternoon when she was struck by a BART train on the tracks at the West Oakland Station, authorities said.<\/p>\n
No other information has been released about the woman.<\/p>\n
The fatal collision happened about 2:03 p.m. Friday. The woman was pronounced deceased at the station and firefighters were in the process of removing her body from the tracks.<\/p>\n
The death caused the West Oakland station to be temporarily closed, although trains were still traveling through the Transbay Tube on tracks opposite the collision site, BART officials said.<\/p>\n
Officials did say red and green line service was temporarily suspended while police and firefighters dealt with the fatality.<\/p>\n
Check back for updates on this developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A woman was killed Friday afternoon when she was struck by a BART train on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,3767,184,7,8,1531,138,332,181,23,100,143,145,144,385,16217,14442],"class_list":["post-157529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bart","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-regional","tag-traffic-fatalities","tag-west-oakland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157529","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=157529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}