Freight Train Strikes and Kills Pedestrian in West Berkeley, Victim Was Allegedly Trespassing on Tracks

A yet-unidentified man was hit by a freight train and killed in West Berkeley Monday morning, though the railroad’s operator Union Pacific says the man was trespassing on the tracks.

The East Bay has been on a particularly tragic run with train accidents over the last couple of months.

Back in mid-November, we saw two separate fatal train fatalities within a 24-hour period in Oakland, killing two different people…

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