Traffic & Transit
I-580 Crash Damages Fence Near BART, Causes Tri-Valley Delays
The collision caused a major delay between the Dublin/ Pleasanton and Castro Valley stations Wednesday morning.
ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA —BART resumed normal service between the Bay Fair and Dublin/Pleasanton stations following a car crash off of Interstate Highway 580 that caused fencing and car parts to block part of the trackway just east of the agency's Castro Valley station Wednesday morning.
The debris in the trackway, which was reported just before 6 a.m., caused trains to single-track between the two stations and created delays of at least 20 minutes, according to BART spokeswoman Anna Duckworth.
BART said in a Twitter message that its grounds crews removed the debris on the tracks from the crash and made repairs to the fence and its damaged equipment, and normal service was restored by 12:30 p.m. BART wrote that the crash "created substantial work for our crews
to fix, including a damaged junction box on the trackway, damaged fencing, a damaged coverboard and removing an auto wheel attached to an axle found in the trackway."
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CHP spokesman Officer Gabriel Walters said two cars that were traveling west on Highway 580 near the Center Street overcrossing and collided at 5:38 a.m., with one car winding up on the right shoulder and the other on the center divide. Walters said debris from the collision flew onto the nearby BART tracks but the drivers involved in the crash weren't injured.