#train-fatality

#train-fatality

A man was killed Monday when a Union Pacific train struck him near Hearst Avenue. Berkeley police received a call that a train had hit someone near the University Avenue overpass shortly before 11:40 a.m., according to a department spokesperson. When officers arrived at the tracks, they found the dead man and notified the Union Pacific Police Department. The man had been trespassing on the train tracks, Jill Micek, a Union Pacific spokesperson, said in an email.