Crime & Safety
Los Altos Man Identified in Caltrain Fatality
The medical examiner's office identified the pedestrian as Joshua Stern.
A man who was struck and killed by a train in Mountain View on Wednesday morning has been identified by the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office as Joshua Stern, 35, of Los Altos.
Stern was hit by a baby bullet train around 9:45 a.m. near the San Antonio station. The train, southbound Caltrain No. 332, was passing through but not scheduled to stop at the station. Baby bullet trains travel at a higher rate of speed than the regular trains because they do not stop at many stations.
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The circumstances of Stern's death remain under investigation. The death marks the ninth fatality on Caltrain right-of-way this year. There were 16 in 2011.
- Bay City News Service
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