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| Description (Note: the mom died four days later). Surveillance video shows a Hammond, Indiana woman racing a freight train to an intersection Saturday morning before two trains hit her minivan and killed two of her children. "It seemed that she (Edie Bolanos) was so intent on beating the eastbound train, she never even saw the westbound train that hit her," Hammond police Sgt. Michael Jorden said. Hammond Police Chief Brian Miller sees a lesson in the tragedy. "My heart goes out to the family," Miller said. "My only hope with the release of this is that other people will learn a lesson, and maybe we can avoid another tragedy in the future." Video from Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District cameras shows that in a 65-second span, Edie Bolanos tried to beat an eastbound freight train by turning into a parking lot, racing east to overtake the train, and then making a hairpin turn to continue south on Johnson Avenue across the tracks. The video shows the van does not appear to slow down as it approaches the tracks. The van was violently struck on the driver's side by a train heading west, which pushed the van into the eastbound train in the span of a second at 9:49 am Saturday, the time-stamped video shows. Bolanos remained in critical condition at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago on Wednesday. Two of her children -- Crystal, 11, and Anahi, 8 -- were ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Her other two children who were in the van were in stable <b>...</b> |
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