{"id":431012,"date":"2026-08-12T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431012\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:12:09","slug":"pedestrian-hit-and-killed-by-train-in-merced-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit and killed by train in Merced, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, August 12, 2026 7:02PM<\/p>\n<p>One person is dead after they were hit by a train in Merced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; One person is dead after they were hit by a train in Merced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The train was traveling eastbound on U Street along the Santa Fe railroad tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash halted traffic as several North Valley schools headed back to campus Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">All of the impacted railroad crossings have since been cleared and are now back open.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, August 12, 2026 7:02PM One person is dead after they were hit by a train in Merced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[171301,112,114,113,171299,5389,8292,294,171300],"class_list":["post-431012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-171301","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-hit-by-train","tag-merced","tag-pedestrian-killed","tag-timely","tag-u-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431012","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=431012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}