BART had to suspend service between North Berkeley and Richmond for nearly three hours Tuesday morning, and we’re now learning that this was because someone wandered onto the tracks and was struck and killed by an oncoming train.

BART had a few service alerts Tuesday morning, and the problem was perhaps a little more severe than the agency was letting on. At 8:46 am this morning, the BART Twitter account posted “BART service has stopped between North Berkeley and Richmond due to a major medical emergency at El Cerrito Plaza.”

By 11:25 am, the transit agency posted that “BART is recovering from an earlier problem. El Cerrito Plaza is now open. Limited train service has been restored between Richmond and North Berkeley.”

But as NBC Bay Area reports, that “major medical emergency” was that someone walked onto the BART tracks and was killed by a train. The Bay Area News Group adds that foul play is not suspected, though the name of the victim has not been released.

The Chronicle got a statement out of BART, which simply said that “A person entered the trackway [at El Cerrito Plaza] and a collision with the train may have occurred.”

Service is back to normal on that Richmond line as of 12:24 pm Tuesday afternoon.

Yet still, this comes just one week after someone was on the tracks and got killed by a train at Civic Center Tuesday of last week. It’s unclear if that person fell accidentally, or purposefully entered the track area.

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