A BART train slows as it approaches the entrance to the portal where damaged routing equipment needed to be fixed between the West Oakland station and the 12th Street station in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, May 20, 2015. BART went into service restoration mode after the equipment was fixed late in the morning making up for the 20 minute to 1 hour delays that riders experienced systemwide during the morning commute.(Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
OAKLAND – A person was hit by a BART train Wednesday in Oakland, officials said.
The incident happened around 5:40 p.m. at the 12th Street Oakland City Center Station, according to BART spokesperson Chris Filippi.
“Someone entered the trackway for an unknown reason and was contacted by a train,” Filippi said in a recorded message. “The person was removed alive from the trackway and taken to a hospital.”
An update on the person’s condition was not available.
The station remained open following the incident, but trains running in the Antioch and Richmond directions did not make stops there for about an hour. Normal service resumed around 6:50 p.m.
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Originally published at Jason Green