An award-winning musician and San Francisco State lecturer was killed when when his vehicle was struck by multiple trains, officials said.
Andrew Speight, a Bay Area jazz musician, died Thursday afternoon after his vehicle got trapped on the Caltrain tracks near Broadway Station in Burlingame, Calif.An award-winning musician and San Francisco State University lecturer was killed when his vehicle was struck by multiple trains, officials said.
Andrew Speight, 58, died Thursday afternoon when his vehicle got trapped on the Caltrain tracks near Broadway Station in Burlingame. A northbound and a southbound train hit the vehicle, Caltrain officials said. Speight was born in Sydney and moved to the United States to teach music. A prolific jazz musician, the alto saxophonist released a critically acclaimed album in 1999 with the Andrew Speight Quartet; it went on to win an Aria Award, Australia’s version of the Grammys., “and [he was] constantly working on his playing, constantly learning to improve himself and with that, tirelessly creating community around the art form, both as a teacher and a mentor and an incredible alto saxophone player.
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