Woman falls and injures head at Lake Merritt BART station, Oakland CA

Medical Emergency

Reported: 11/2/2025 08:01 PM

Lake Merritt BART Station, Oakland, CA 94607

A 28-year-old woman fell and hit her head at Lake Merritt BART station. She was bleeding from her right eyebrow but remained conscious and was being attended to on the platform.

Audio|Source: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) - Rail Operations

02:18

Transcript:

00:00

I'll get a welfare check for a female with a white shirt,

00:04

black leggings on the platform, on the freebile end of the platform. She was stumbled around, she was like she fell, but she got back up, and she's on the bench right now, I'm a little concerned about her.

00:20

Conscious female with a white shirt on the frugal end of the platform on Lake Merritt copy. Okay.

00:26

You're welcome. You're welcome.

00:32

231 approach and my cars are no meat.

00:38

231-104.

00:43

277, deported Pleasant Hill 2 Hold 1 at Creek, Reeveside.

00:48

377, Hall 1 at Creek, 3-7-7 Hall-Wonna Creek.

00:54

3-7-7 at Reback Park, 2010-4, that's what Bar Police holds for drug activity.

01:05

Sanjuro 361, request on this.

01:08

Hi Central, this is the agent at Lake Merritt.

01:16

3707, rolling from Hall, Walnut Creek, 2007. Break station agent at Lake Merritt, go ahead.

01:26

Any medical here for a young lady, she actually fell and hit her head. She's here on the south end of the platform.

01:35

Sorry,

01:36

south end of the platform, 28-year-old, a female.

01:41

This is a female. Can we get an approximate age?

01:45

28.

01:46

Okay.

01:47

And stay tuned at Ligmar. We're calling now.

01:51

All right, thank you. I'm down here with her. Copy, thank you.

01:56

Thank you.

02:00

Thank you, Mary.

02:02

Is the individual bleeding?

02:06

I believe this is blood coming from her right eyebrow.

02:11

And I just confirmed that she is conscious at this time.

02:15

Yeah, I'm chatting with her. She's sitting down next to me.

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