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  • Man hit, killed by train in Berkeley

    11/15/2007 4:27:56 PM PST · by SmithL · 12 replies · 151+ views
    Contra Costa Times ^ | 11/15/7 | Doug Oakley
    The Alameda County Coroner's office identified a man hit and killed by a train at the Berkeley Amtrak station this morning as Scott Slaughter, 31, of Berkeley. A coroner's office spokeswoman said Slaughter was talking on his cell phone on his way to work at Truitt & White lumber store when he was hit at 8:15 a.m. The lumber yard and an adjoining business share a gate in a fence that runs along the tracks where Slaughter was heading, the spokeswoman said. According to witnesses, Slaughter waited for one train to pass on a first set of tracks. After the...