Third person in 12 days killed after being hit by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train

A third person in less than two weeks has been hit and killed by a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train.

According to the Superintendent of the Transit Police Department, Richard Sullivan, the adult male who was hit by a train in Brockton on Friday evening committed an intentional act.

“On behalf of the Transit Police and the entire MBTA organization we express our most sincere condolences to the decedent’s family and friends.”

Sullivan stated there would be no further updates.

It is the third pedestrian killed by a train in southeastern Massachusetts in recent days.

At around midnight, on March 24th, a pedestrian was fatally struck in the area of West and Pine Streets in Abington. Sullivan stated that it was an intentional act by the pedestrian.

The name of the victim was not released.

On March 16th, the Transit Police Department received an emergency dispatch from a commuter rail train advising of a pedestrian strike at the Birch Street railroad crossing east of the intersection of North Avenue and Railroad Street in Abington. The unknown
male victim, later identified as 56-year-old Scott Sherman, was pronounced deceased by a first
responder with the Abington Fire Department.

Preliminarily, investigators found no mechanical faults on the train by MBTA operators, and the train was travelling below the 70-mph speed limit at the time of the incident.