BART fatality identified as Hayward man
Updated 9:12 pm, Monday, August 13, 2012
A man who was struck and killed by a BART train at Glen Park Station was identified Monday as a 41-year-old Hayward resident, officials said.
Derrick Jackson died Saturday after a Richmond-bound train entered the station around 2:30 p.m. and the train operator realized that the train had hit something, said BART spokesman Jim Allison.
The operator saw the man moving on the tracks and hit the emergency stop button, but the train hit him before it stopped. The man was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died.
Allison couldn't say why Jackson was on the tracks. BART police are reviewing station surveillance footage from that afternoon, Allison said.