A train struck a vehicle in Burlingame Thursday afternoon, killing the driver, Caltrain said.
The incident occurred near the intersection of California Drive and Broadway around 1:40 p.m. and has caused residual delays.
Telemundo 48’s Yomara Lopez spoke with the victim’s wife off camera Thursday night. She said that she was too distraught for an interview.
Fernanda Lustosa told NBC Bay Area that she was walking her dog when she heard a loud noise coming from the train station. She then went back to her house, looked outside, and captured this video of the crash.
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Caltrain said the driver drove onto the tracks when it was hit, he died at the scene.
No passengers on the train were hurt.
Jose Torres said similar crashes have happened there before.
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“These lights are very dangerous. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t work. Like three or four months ago, they were fixing the lights and then a week later, it was same problem,” he said.
Caltrain said in the past five years, there have been seven crashes at the Burlingame Broadway crossing. Two of those were deadly.
