The El Cerrito Plaza BART station was closed Tuesday morning due to a “major medical emergency,” according to the Bay Area Rapid Transit. A major medical emergency is typically the term the transit agency uses to describe a fatality on a BART train or at a BART station.

The El Cerrito Plaza BART station was shut down Tuesday morning after a person on the tracks possibly was struck by a train, the transit agency said.

BART’s El Cerrito Plaza Station was closed for a several hours Tuesday morning due to “a major medical emergency,” officials said. Train service stopped between the North Berkeley and Richmond BART stations because of a “major medical emergency” at the El Cerrito Plaza Station,