{"id":341946,"date":"2010-02-19T20:50:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T01:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8b8d2fb970b"},"modified":"2010-02-19T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T04:55:07","slug":"pedestrian-is-killed-by-blue-line-train-in-watts-area-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341946","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian is killed by Blue Line train in Watts area [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/mapping-la\/neighborhoods\/neighborhood\/watts\/?q=1700+East+Century+Boulevard&amp;lat=33.9456029&amp;lng=-118.2434508\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Watts Mapping L.A. Neighborhoods page. Click for more information about this neighborhood.\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8b90236970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8b90236970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"The Watts Mapping L.A. Neighborhoods page. Click for more information about this neighborhood.\" \/><\/a> A Metro Blue Line train struck and killed a woman Friday afternoon in the Watts area, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. <\/p>\n<p>The department got a call just after 4 p.m. that a person was trapped beneath the train in the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/mapping-la\/neighborhoods\/neighborhood\/watts\/?q=1700+East+Century+Boulevard&amp;lat=33.9456029&amp;lng=-118.2434508\">1700 block of East Century Boulevard<\/a>. Soon after firefighters arrived, they pronounced the woman dead, said spokesman Devin Gales. <strong>[Update:<\/strong> An earlier version of this post stated that the victim was a man.]<\/p>\n<p>The train must be moved before the woman\u2019s body can be removed, Gales said. <\/p>\n<p>He said he did not know the circumstances of the accident or where the train was going. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Updated at 7:05 p.m.:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">The unidentified, 51-year-old woman was apparently trying to cross the tracks. Her name has<br \/>\nnot been released.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">\u201cThe<br \/>\nwoman was thrown several feet before the train finally came to a halt,\u201d Gales<br \/>\nsaid. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Paramedics had a difficult time<br \/>\nreaching the victim, but as soon as they did, he said, they realized she was dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Anna Gorman<\/p>\n<p><em>Map: The Watts Mapping L.A. Neighborhoods page. Click for more information about the neighborhood.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Metro Blue Line train struck and killed a woman Friday afternoon in the Watts area, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The department got a call just after 4 p.m. that a person was trapped beneath the train in the 1700 block of East Century Boulevard. Soon after firefighters arrived, they pronounced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}