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A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Union Pacific freight train in Berkeley Monday morning, fire and railroad officials said.
The fire department received reports of a train hitting a pedestrian near the Berkeley and Albany border at 9:06 a.m., the Berkeley fire Acting Deputy Chief said.
The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.
The victim, a man, had been walking south on the tracks and a southbound Union Pacific train heading from Roseville to Oakland struck him, Union Pacific spokesman Aaron Hunt said.
A pedestrian was struck by a bus in San Francisco Sunday morning, a police spokesman said.
Officers and paramedics responded to a report of a crash involving a man in his 60s who had been hit by a private bus at Seventh and Market streets at about 8:10 a.m., San Francisco police spokesman Eric O’Neal said.
The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with injuries that were potentially life threatening, O’Neal said.
The bus driver remained at the scene and cooperated with police.
The crash remains under investigation
San Francisco police are investigating a collision between a vehicle and pedestrian that happened in the city’s Sunset District on Sunday night, a police sergeant said.
Officers responded to a report of the collision in the 3700 block of Ulloa Street near 39th Avenue around 9:45 p.m., police said.
A vehicle traveling east on Ulloa Street hit a pedestrian who was in the crosswalk, he said.
The pedestrian, a woman in her 60s, was transported to San Francisco General Hospital where she is in serious but stable condition, police said.
A man was struck and killed by a train near the Atherton Caltrain station early Saturday morning, an agency spokeswoman said.
The man was on the tracks just north of Fair Oaks Lane near the station around 1:20 a.m. when he was hit by southbound train No. 198, Caltrain spokesman Jayme Ackeman said in an email.
The victim’s identity has not been released.
The train involved in the deadly collision was the last train of the night. It was delayed for more than an hour, Ackeman said.
The incident is the third Caltrain fatality this year, the spokeswoman said.
A juvenile was struck and injured while walking in crosswalk on Wednesday evening in San Francisco’s Balboa Terrace neighborhood.
Police said a boy was hit by a car that was turning onto Junipero Serra Boulevard from Ocean Avenue.
The boy was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
The driver remained at the scene and was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian and not having proper proof of insurance.
The collision remains under investigation.
A pedestrian was struck and injured by a car Tuesday in San Francisco's Financial District, police said.
The pedestrian was hit near the intersection of Sacramento and Battery streets about 6:10 a.m., said a police spokesman.
The pedestrian, whose identity was not released, was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said. The driver stayed at the scene.
In the latest in a series of traffic collisions in San Francisco injuring pedestrians and cyclists, a bike rider was struck Tuesday by a car near the Civic Center, authorities said.
Reports of a collision near Market and Hyde streets came in around 10:15 a.m. Responding firefighters located a man in his 40s suffering from injuries sustained in the crash, officials said.
The man was transported to a local hospital for treatment of his injuries, which were considered non-life threatening, the Fire Department said.