Crime & Safety
Fatality at Ashby BART, Train Delays on Richmond Line
The Ashby BART Station was closed for more than two hours after a woman was hit by a train and died this afternoon.
A woman died after being struck by a train at the Ashby BART station early this afternoon, BART officials said.
BART officials said it may have been a suicide.
At 12:47 p.m., the person was sighted on the BART tracks at the station, according to BART. "They were apparently struck by a train," said Jim Allison, BART's deputy chief communications officer in a media hotline recording.
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Ashby Station was closed while BART police investigated the incident and trains passed through without stopping. The station reopened around 3 p.m. The Richmond lines were stopped for 45 minutes and afterward continued to experience what BART termed "major delays."
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