{"id":436359,"date":"2026-08-18T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436359\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:40:08","slug":"oakland-amtrak-collision-with-car-kills-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436359\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland: Amtrak collision with car kills one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 A man\u00a0 died early Tuesday after a collision with an Amtrak train at a railroad crossing in the Fruitvale District, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not identify the man immediately, pending the investigation and contacting of relatives.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened about 6:25 a.m. in the 800 block of 37th Avenue, just north of Interstate 880.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial reports,\u00a0 the man was pushing his stalled car across the tracks when he and the vehicle were\u00a0 struck by the train.\u00a0 Authorities pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Few other details were available immediately. The crossing guard rail was up at the scene following the collision, but police said they were trying to confirm\u00a0 exactly how\u00a0 the collision happened.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A man\u00a0 died early Tuesday after a collision with an Amtrak train at a railroad crossing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[36020,283,8197,2790,143,145,144,7755],"class_list":["post-436359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-amtrak-train","tag-car","tag-collision","tag-dead","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436359","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=436359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}