An approximately 40-year-old man was struck and killed by a Metrolink train Friday in East Los Angeles.
The victim was struck about 3:50 p.m. in the 5100 block of State University Drive, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Metrolink announced that San Bernardino Line train 316 had hit a person on the tracks.
The eastbound train hit the man about one-half mile west of the Cal State LA Station, according to Ramon Montenegro of the Sheriff’s Transit Policing Division.
All trains share a single track through that area so the fatality caused major delays in either direction on the San Bernardino Line, Montenegro said.
Metrolink announced about 6:45 p.m. that the track had been reopened.
–City News Service