Metrolink train strikes, kills woman

Fatal collision occurred just before 7 a.m. at the Railroad Avenue station

A woman struck and killed by a train Thursday morning appears to be a transient accidentally killed in the incident, a sergeant at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station said.

The fatal collision happened just before 7 a.m. at the Metrolink train station on Railroad Avenue at Market Street, Sgt. Mike Pokorny said.

“It appears to be an accident. It was a woman. She is presumed, at this point, to be one of the local transient residents,” he said. An investigation into the collision is ongoing

At 6:55 a.m., the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station received reports of a pedestrian struck by a train at the Newhall Metrolink station. The female victim was

pronounced dead at the scene near the 24300 block of Railroad Avenue.

As of 9 a.m., Market Street was closed between Railroad Avenue and Pine Street to facilitate the investigation into the woman’s death.

Paramedics dispatched to the incident at 6:57 a.m. arrived there at 7:05 a.m., said Vanessa Lozano, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

At 7:11 a.m., the woman was pronounced dead at the scene, she said.

“The call came in as a traffic collision involving a pedestrian, for a female hit by a train in Newhall,” she said.

Nobody on the train was hurt, Metrolink spokesman Chris Gutierrez said.

“The individuals on the train were transferred to another one of (Metro’s) trains — Train number 296 — which was able to pick them up and bring them to L.A.,” Gutierrez said.

Trains stopped while investigators carried out their probe were expected to be back on scheduled by mid-afternoon.

“We’re starting to normalize now,” he said shortly before 11 a.m.

Austin Dave/The Signal (See additional photos at signalscv.com) Sheriff’s deputies investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman struck and killed by a Metrolink train on Thursday. Authorities believe the collision was an accident.