Pedestrian suffers ‘possibly severed’ leg when hit by train near Gaslamp Quarter

Pedestrian suffers ‘possibly severed’ leg when hit by train near Gaslamp Quarter

A man suffered a “possibly severed” leg in downtown San Diego early Tuesday when he was hit while attempting to walk between stopped train cars and the freight train started moving, authorities said. A witness told police he saw several people crossing through stopped rail cars shortly before 12:10 a.m. near the San Diego Convention Center when the train began to move. One man fell and was hit. “It was his right leg, just right before the shin —…

Train severs leg of man crawling between rail cars in Gaslamp

An incident on Monday night is shedding light on a dangerous situation that seems to be happening more near the Gaslamp. Just after midnight, a man tried to crawl between the cars of a freight train after it had stopped on the tracks near the convention center. As he tried to do so, police say, the train began to move, severing the man’s leg below the shin. More Gaslamp news …