BART Trains Resume Service After Walnut Creek Emergency

Walnut Creek CA

16 May, 2020

7:01 PM

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WALNUT CREEK, CA — BART's Walnut Creek station has reopened and train service has been fully restored in both directions after a "major medical emergency" earlier Saturday involving a person under a train adjacent to the station platform, the transit agency said. The emergency was first reported about 2:40 p.m., and all trains on the Antioch line were initially stopped. Trains starting single-tracking through the Walnut Creek station shortly before 4 p.m., a BART spokesman said, and both tracks were reopened shortly after 5 p.m.. BART officials have not explicitly said the person under the train had actually been hit by the train, nor have they released the victim's condition. Due to major medical emergency, buses are replacing trains temporarily between Lafayette, Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations. Emergency crews are responding to a person in the trackway at Walnut Creek. The incident began at about 2:40 this afternoon.— SFBART (@SFBART) May 16, 2020 Bay City News contributed to this report.