Man’s Apparent Suicide Delays Trains
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An apparent suicide Wednesday night on railroad tracks in Santa Ana backed up a dozen trains between Los Angeles and San Diego and delayed about 1,000 passengers for hours, authorities said.
An Amtrak train was bound from Los Angeles to San Diego with 115 passengers when it hit a 22-year-old man just south of the Garden Grove Freeway about 5:30 p.m., authorities said.
The train sat for more than two hours while police investigated the scene, and the delay affected 12 other trains in Southern California, Amtrak spokesman Dominick Albano said.
He said Christmas Eve is one of Amtrak’s busiest travel days, and that the Los Angeles to San Diego corridor is the railroad’s second-busiest route.
All the affected trains were back on their way shortly after 7:30 p.m., he said.
The victim was not identified pending notification of family.
No one on the train was injured.
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