OCTOBER 27, 2008 – The Encinitas sheriff’s department has reported a woman was struck and killed Monday afternoon by a northbound Amtrak train near the D Street station in Encinitas. The train engineer applied the emergency brakes and sounded off the train’s horn, but was unable to stop the train before hitting the woman, whose identity has not been released.. Amtrak train service does not stop at the Encinitas train station, so the train was speeding through at 77 m.p.h., within the allowed speeds. The sheriff’s department said the 58-year-old woman jumped from the station platform and spread out her arms in front of the oncoming train. Rail service was halted for several hours while the medical examiner’s office and sheriff’s deputies investigated the Encinitas train accident.
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