{"id":208734,"date":"2026-03-07T08:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208734\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:11:15","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-struck-by-freight-train-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208734\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after struck by freight train in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pedestrian<\/p>\n

A pedestrian died Friday after they were struck by a freight train in southeast Sacramento County, stopping traffic at railroad crossings in the area as authorities investigated.<\/p>\n

The incident was reported about 3:15 p.m. Friday near the 8500 block of Tiogawoods Drive, just south of Gerber Road in Sacramento\u2019s Vineyard neighborhood, California Highway Patrol online dispatch records show.<\/p>\n

Firefighters arrived at the scene and found an adult pedestrian who was pronounced dead at the scene, said Capt. Mark Nunez, a spokesperson for the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.<\/p>\n

The Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office will release further details about the pedestrian including their name and age after their family has been notified.<\/p>\n

CHP and Union Pacific Railroad officials were investigating the pedestrian fatality, Nunez said.<\/p>\n

Railroad tracks in the area were closed as authorities investigated at the scene. In a social media post about 4:40 p.m. Friday, the CHP South Sacramento office<\/a> reported that traffic was affected at the nearby intersections of Gerber and French roads; Gerber and Reese roads; and Florin and Frasinetti roads.<\/p>\n

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The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Rosalio Ahumada writes breaking news stories related to crime and public safety for The Sacramento Bee. He speaks Spanish fluently and has worked as a news reporter in the Central Valley since 2004.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian died Friday after they were struck by a freight train in southeast Sacramento County, stopping traffic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[852,96187,96186,121,123,122,96058],"class_list":["post-208734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-chp","tag-gerber-rd","tag-pedestrian-struck-by-train","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-tiogawoods-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208734","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=208734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}