A Sept. 12 front-page story about two South County residents killed by Union Pacific freight trains should have stated that there is no annual average number of deaths on the Caltrain rail system as there is no way of knowing how may people will be killed. There have been 11 deaths on the Caltrain rail system this year, 10 of those on tracks owned by Caltrain.
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