{"id":84401,"date":"2026-02-11T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipping.einnews.com\/article\/891312910"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:46:00","slug":"man-taken-to-hospital-after-being-struck-by-freight-train-near-summerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/man-taken-to-hospital-after-being-struck-by-freight-train-near-summerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Taken to Hospital After Being Struck by Freight Train Near Summerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was taken to the hospital Tuesday afternoon after being struck by a freight train near Summerland, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montecitofire.com\/\">Montecito Fire Protection District<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and other emergency personnel were dispatched shortly after 5 p.m. to the incident on the railroad tracks between Lookout Park and Fernald Point. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told Noozhawk the male victim was located on a small railroad trestle with his legs hanging over the edge, and was given first aid at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The man was carried about a third of a mile back to Lookout Park, where an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amr.net\/locations\/operations\/california\/santa-barbara-county\">AMR ambulance<\/a> was waiting to take him to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbch.org\/OurHospitals\/SantaBarbaraCottageHospital\/tabid\/142\/Default.aspx\">Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>window.zone_load_896869210 = function(z, d) { if (!d.count) document.getElementById(&#8216;zone_load_896869210&#8217;).style.display = &#8216;none&#8217;; }; <\/p>\n<aside> <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-opt-id=890416763  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noozhawk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/021026-Train-vs-Pedestrian-ph-2000.jpg?resize=780%2C519&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"A man who was injured when he was struck by a freight train near Summerland Tuesday afternoon is carried to a waiting ambulance.\" class=\"wp-image-787198\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A man who was injured when he was struck by a freight train near Summerland Tuesday afternoon is carried to a waiting ambulance. <span class=\"image-credit\"><span class=\"credit-label-wrapper\">Credit:<\/span> Peter Hartmann \/ Noozhawk photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The man\u2019s name was not available. He sustained major injuries, per Montecito Fire. <\/p>\n<p>Train traffic was halted while the rescue was in progress and the incident was being investigated. The tracks reopened before 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Check back with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noozhawk.com\/\">Noozhawk<\/a> for updates to this story. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-opt-id=1922124024  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noozhawk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/021026-Train-vs-Pedestrian-2-ph-2000.jpg?resize=780%2C519&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"A man who was injured when he was struck by a freight train near Summerland Tuesday afternoon is loaded into an ambulance.\" class=\"wp-image-787196\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A man who was injured when he was struck by a freight train near Summerland Tuesday afternoon is loaded into an ambulance. <span class=\"image-credit\"><span class=\"credit-label-wrapper\">Credit:<\/span> Peter Hartmann \/ Noozhawk photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\"> <\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; after being struck by a <span class=\"match\">freight<\/span> train near Summerland, according to &#8230; he was struck by a <span class=\"match\">freight<\/span> train near Summerland Tuesday afternoon &#8230; he was struck by a <span class=\"match\">freight<\/span> train near Summerland Tuesday afternoon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}