EL CERRITO \u2014 The El Cerrito Plaza BART station was closed Monday afternoon after officials said a deceased passenger was found on the concourse level.<\/p>\n
No other information was immediately released about the person. Officials did say there were no initial indications of foul play.<\/p>\n
The person was found deceased about 12:36 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n
The station was shut down until about 2:10 p.m. while police investigated and waited for the coroner\u2019s bureau to respond. Normal service resumed when the station reopened.<\/p>\n
During the shutdown, BART said trains were not stopping at the station but that Red and Orange Line Service had not otherwise been impacted.<\/p>\n
AC Transit was providing bus service between the El Cerrito Plaza and Del Norte Stations while the station was closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL CERRITO \u2014 The El Cerrito Plaza BART station was closed Monday afternoon after officials said a deceased…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3767,184,7,8,392,138,332,5564,1533,181,23,100,143,145,144,182,385,399],"class_list":["post-430679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bart","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-contra-costa-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-el-cerrito","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pm-report","tag-regional","tag-west-contra-costa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430679","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=430679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}