Police are investigating after a man was struck and killed by a train near Hope, B.C. The RCMP say the collision occurred beneath the Water Avenue overpass just before 1:30 p.m. Saturday. First responders arrived to find the victim deceased at the scene, police said in a news release Tuesday. Investigators say the train stopped and remained at the scene while police assessed the circumstances surrounding the collision. “Police learned that the man had been walking along the railway tracks prior to the collision,” the release said. “The investigation remains ongoing in collaboration with the B.C. Coroners Service and CN Railway.” Authorities are reminding the public that railway tracks are dangerous as trains can approach quickly and require significant distance to come to a stop. Last week, the coroners service warned that twice as many people in B.C. have died from accidental train collisions so far this year compared with the same period in 2025. The coroners said there were 13 unintentional railway deaths between Jan. 1 and Aug. 30, 2026, compared with six during the same period last year. “We have seen an alarming increase in unintentional railway deaths so far in 2026,” said Dr. Jatinder Baidwan, the province’s chief coroner, in a statement on Sept. 21. “It is more important than ever that we remind everyone to pay attention to their surroundings at railway crossings and that trains move faster and take longer to stop than you think they do.” The B.C. Coroners Service told CTV News it could not explain why there has been such a sharp increase in accidental rail deaths in recent months. “However, we can share that the deaths all appear to be in urban settings” and are not related to motor-vehicle incidents, spokesperson Amber Schinkel wrote in an email.
