Crime & Safety
Hear an Audio Recording of Fatal BART Accident: Stop, Stop, Stop!
An audio recording of BART radio traffic to the train that hit and killed two BART workers in Walnut Creek.
This audio clip follows the BART radio transmission of Saturday's fatal accident in Walnut Creek from a few minutes before through the emergency response.
Here's an approximate transcript of the initial minutes of the recording:
:06 Central dispatch woman's voice: ...We're going into the track next to the blockhead. We'll slow you when we get close to couple up to a car...
:17 Central dispatch woman's voice: Keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, 50 feet, keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, 25 feet, keep coming, keep coming, 15 feet, keep coming, keep coming, keep coming (repeats multiple times) 10 feet, keep coming..
:40 Central dispatch woman's voice: Slow down, slow down, slow down. Stop, stop. Stop! (Emphatically.)
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:49 Train operator's voice (calmly): I'll stop.
:51 Central dispatch man's voice: Train 963 I have routing at C53 C54 cancelled. Let me know when you're ready to proceed ahead after your break.
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:59: Unintelligible yell. Metallic screeching.
1:03 Train operator man's voice (calmly): BART emergency, BART emergency. Central Train 963, we just struck some individuals at approximately 16 decimal two on the C1 track.
1:35 Train operator man's voice: Central be advised it may be BART employees.
It was confirmed that both victims were BART employees working in the area around 1:47 p.m. Saturday performing inspections. They were dead at the scene.Patch will update this report when further details are available.
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