A BART train hit and killed a person on the tracks at San Francisco Civic Center station Tuesday morning, closing the station temporarily and creating delays across the system, the agency said.BART issued an alert just before 9 a.

San Francisco commuters faced major delays Wednesday morning after a medical emergency at Civic Center Station forced service disruptions across multiple BART lines. At one point, the station was completely closed,

SAN FRANCISCO — A person died early Tuesday in what BART officials said appears to be a collision with a train on the tracks at the Civic Center station. BART spokesperson Jim Allison confirmed the fatality at 10 a.m., about 75 minutes after the emergency first was reported.