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Five pedestrian fatalities involving trains have occurred in 2022; twelve in 2021, six in 2020, and thirteen in 2019. Most alarming is 50% of forty-six total were in the SFV.
9-24-2022 2:32am
50% of 2019-2022 Los Angeles Pedestrian Fatalities via Train Were in the SFV
Lorraine Mabbett
Editor
The Los Angeles Fire Department details on train accidents are available via an alert to posts on Twitter which includes a link to further details and an update. The accumulation of data is easily formulated using www.Tweetdeck.Twitter.com. These are the incidents in the SFV with a pedestrian fatality via a train or train track discovery of the person killed. There is no distinction or further details which would indicate if the pedestrian willfully entered the path of the train. Neither is there any details of the identity of the pedestrian.
- Sun Valley had seven incidents between 2019 and 2022
- Pacoima, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Downtown L.A., and Central Alameda each had four incidents between 2019 and 2022
2022 had 7 incidents in total of which 6 involved pedestrians with 5 fatalities city wide
2021 had 13 incidents in total of which 12 involved pedestrians with 9 fatalities city wide.
2020 had 11 incidents in total of which 6 involved pedestrians with 5 fatalities city wide.
2019 had 15 incidents in total of which 13 involved pedestrians with 8 fatalities city wide.
Pedestrian - Train fatalities in the San Fernando Valley 2022-2019:
| Year | Date | City | Link |
| 2022 | 9/23 | Sun Valley | bit.ly/3C5BGWC |
| 2022 | 9/13 | Van Nuys | bit.ly/3d8hsCe |
| 2022 | 8/10 | Sun Valley | bit.ly/3zLXUuC |
| 2022 | 6/24 | North Hollywood | bit.ly/3zLXUuC |
| 2021 | 11/3 | Sun Valley | bit.ly/2ZRT2pe |
| 2021 | 3/15 | Sun Valley | bit.ly/3cDBTlX |
| 2021 | 3/10 | Van Nuys | bit.ly/2N8QPA0 |
| 2020 | 11/6 | Sun Valley | bit.ly/32BGlxJ |
| 2020 | 8/10 | Sun Valley | tinyurl.com/y66mtft5 |
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2020 |
4/7 | Pacoima | bit.ly/2Lbur1J |
| 2019 | 12/30 | North Hollywood | tinyurl.com/v9avrao |
| 2019 | 12/7 | Pacoima | tinyurl.com/w55ohjg |
| 2019 | 9/30 | North Hollywood | tinyurl.com/yyjwcpxc |
| 2019 |
8/20 |
Granada Hills | tinyurl.com/y3pn34q5 |
| 2019 |
7/23 |
Northridge | tinyurl.com/y5k7t6uo |
| 2019 | 6/2 | Sun Valley | tinyurl.com/y4wt9zrz |
| 2019 | 2/14 | Van Nuys | tinyurl.com/yy4pgwjx |
| 2019 | 1/3 | Northridge | tinyurl.com/yalocwux |
