Racing train

[Catty1]

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.a...56095&nav=0Ra7

This Fox link has a surveillance video - shot from a distance. You have to wonder how a) stupid, or b) desperate she was. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296428,00.htmlEdie Bolanos

Mother Dies Days After Children Killed in Van-Train Crash

Sep 11, 2007 10:50 AM

HAMMOND, Ind. - A Hammond woman has died more than a week after being ejected from her minivan when it crashed into a train as she tried to beat it across the track, killing her two children.

The Cook County medical examiner's office says 32-year-old Edie Bolanos died early Tuesday at Loyola Hospital in suburban Chicago.

Her 11-year-old and 8-year-old daughters were ejected from the van and died from massive internal injuries.

The crash happened Sept. 1 at a CSX railroad crossing in Hammond.

Surveillance video shows the blue minivan racing through a parking lot trying to beat an eastbound freight train through the crossing, only to be hit by a westbound engine and then the eastbound train.

(Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

[Lady's Human]

That happens all over the world, and far more frequently than most people are aware.

In Oklahoma they run Public Service ads about it, and occasionally you hear them in NY as well.

[Catty1]

LH - do you mean the murder-suicide situation?

Considering the date...I wonder if she lost someone in the Towers...

But to take your kids with you....the boys survived, as one was in a car seat and the other in a seat belt (but was still thrown from the vehicle).

[Lady's Human]

No, the idiocy of trying to beat a train to a crossing. It happens all too often.

[Laura's Babies]

They had a rash of those in a nearby parish here, every week somebody was getting killed trying to outrun a train for about a month. That is so sad!

[dukedogsmom]

Goes to show just how stupid people can be.

[DJFyrewolf36]

Unfortuneatly, it happens a LOT here. Many people mistakenly think trains go slowly and they don't realize that they can't beat the train. Cargo trains are huge and people don't like waiting up to 20 minutes for a train to go by so they try to beat it.