Two pedestrians were struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Ventura on Friday night, officials said. The collision happened in the 4300 block of Pacific Coast Highway near Faria Beach Park, and both victims died at the scene.
The Ventura County Fire Department said it responded to the area around 9:45 p.m. Friday, according to NBC Los Angeles. Officials said the identities and ages of the two people killed were not immediately available. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit is now investigating the collision, while Amtrak officials and the California Highway Patrol also responded to the scene. It remains unclear what led up to the collision, the station reported.
A 2025 Moorpark Train Death
More than a year before the Nov. 13, 2026, Ventura collision, a 34-year-old man died on Oct. 7, 2025, after being struck by an Amtrak train just outside Moorpark, with deputies responding to tracks near Balcom Canyon Road and State Route 118 around 8:15 p.m. after the train's conductor reported hitting a pedestrian, according to the Ventura County Star. The sheriff's office major crimes unit investigated that death as a possible suicide, the paper reported.
The Oct. 7, 2025, Moorpark death followed two other fatal train incidents within weeks of each other. The outlet described the Oct. 7 death as the third in recent weeks, following one in Simi Valley on Sept. 24 that police investigated as a possible suicide, and another near the Oxnard train station on Sept. 25. In the Simi Valley case, Metrolink said tracks were closed between Simi Valley and Moorpark after a train struck a person in the 1700 block of East Los Angeles Avenue, according to KEYT, which reported that first responders were dispatched around 9:42 a.m. and that train service did not resume until around 1:40 p.m. that day.
Earlier Incidents Along Ventura's Rail Corridor
The danger posed by Ventura County's train corridors isn't new. In July, a 24-year-old woman lost her arm after being hit by a train at a railroad crossing east of Seaward Avenue in Ventura, with the Ventura Police Department saying she was carrying her bike across the tracks when a southbound Amtrak train struck the bike in her arms, per KEYT. She was taken to a hospital and listed in stable condition as of 7:02 p.m. that evening, the outlet reported.
No cause has been determined for Friday's collision near Faria Beach Park, and officials have not released further details on the victims. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit's investigation remains ongoing.
