{"id":449779,"date":"2026-09-01T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449779\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:56:16","slug":"train-fatally-hits-man-in-sacramento-county-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449779\/","title":{"rendered":"Train fatally hits man in Sacramento County, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(FOX40.COM) \u2014 A train fatally hit a man Monday night in south Sacramento County, officials said<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At approximately 8:42 p.m., the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District was dispatched to the railroad crossing on Calvine Road near Illa Collin Park close to the border of the Florin and Vineyard areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A southbound train operated by the Union Pacific Railroad struck a man, who fire personnel pronounced at the scene, Sac Metro Fire said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The California Highway Patrol and Elk Grove Police Department are both investigating the crash, as the site straddles the border of Sacramento County and Elk Grove. The man&#8217;s identity has not yet been confirmed, Sac Metro Fire said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is the second deadly crash involving a train in the last week. On Aug. 28,<a data-ylk=\"slk:a train hit two pedestrians in north Sacramento;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\/news\/local-news\/sacramento\/1-dead-1-injured-in-sacramento-after-train-hits-pedestrians\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> a train hit two pedestrians in north Sacramento<\/a>, killing one and injuring the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2014 A train fatally hit a man Monday night in south Sacramento County, officials said At approximately&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[24933,32637,121,357,123,122,177569],"class_list":["post-449779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-elk-grove-police-department","tag-sac-metro-fire","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-the-california-highway-patrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449779","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=449779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}