This story is so infuriating and mind boggling that it is hard to put into words. In Hammond Indiana Edie Bolanos, in her mini-van and accompanied by four children, decided rather than wait for a freight train to pass, she would race it. This is what happened next:
Racing to beat the eastbound freight train, she was probably shocked when the approaching west bound train that hit her, striking the drivers side full force. The van was then spun into the path of the eastbound train she was trying to beat and struck once again.
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.
Two of her children, Crystal, 11, and Anahi, 8, were ejected from the minivan and were pronounced dead at the scene. Two other children were hospitalized and are in stable condition. Edie Bolanos is hospitalized in critical condition.
Personally I will praying that Ms. Bolanos makes a speedy recovery, so that she can spend the rest of her days in prison contemplating what she's done. I feel so sorry for the kids that survived, they have to live with the memories of the wreck and to live without their siblings. They also have to live with the knowledge that her mother is the one who killed them.
I really hope none of her relatives or friends, or anyone else who knew her comes out talking about what a good mother she is, because obviously not. There is nothing I can think of that could possibly justify racing a train, let alone while your van full of children or any other passenger.
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What's sad is that there are reports that the family hired an attorney with plans to sue the railroad company!
Apparently the fact she deliberately goes into the "exit" entrance of the parking lot, speeds at 80 m.p.h. alongside a speeding train, makes a controlled, and deliberate sharp turn and drives over the tracks, KNOWING, the train is right there and somehow missing the other train...is the fault of the railroad and the lack of crossing gates. Uh-huh
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