A 47-year-old man was struck and killed when he got in the way of a Metrolink commuter train on the west end of Riverside, authorities said Wednesday.
Michael Rivera of Riverside was fatally injured just before 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad crossing on Van Buren Boulevard, less than a block south of Indiana Avenue, according to the Riverside County Coroner’s Office.
Riverside Fire Department paramedics reached the location within minutes, pronouncing Rivera dead at the scene…