ANAHEIM / FULLERTON : 2 Men Struck, Killed in Train Accidents

Two men were hit and killed by trains in the last two days. Police said one man apparently committed suicide; the other died trying to avoid a locomotive while drinking on the tracks with friends.

The apparent suicide took place in Anaheim about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, when a man about 40 years old ran onto tracks on the north side of the 800 block of East Broadway. Witnesses told police that the man squatted on the tracks, facing the locomotive traveling about 75 m.p.h. and was killed instantly.

About 250 passengers were on the northbound train. Its scheduled arrival in Los Angeles at 9:09 a.m. was delayed 41 minutes, said Ron Scolaro, the chief administrative officer for Amtrak.

In the other incident, police said, David Michael Borough, 19, was fatally struck by a freight train in Fullerton Tuesday evening. He and three friends had been drinking beer on the tracks.

Sgt. Glen Deveny said Borough was sitting on eastbound tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad north of Brookhurst Road near Commonwealth Avenue about 9:35 p.m. when the group heard a train approaching from the west.

The friends, whose names were not released and who are between 20 and 22, stood up and moved out of harm’s way in a southerly direction. Borough, however, took a few steps in the opposite direction and did not see that a westbound train was coming on the adjacent tracks, Deveny said.

Borough was pronounced dead at the scene. The three friends and Borough’s family live near site of the accident.

Greg Borough, 20, said his brother lived in Chino and was visiting family and friends in Fullerton on Tuesday night. The funeral will be Saturday.