The crash on Sunday that left three women dead was one of at least 16 since the mid-1980s along two private crossings that mark this stretch of railway, which cuts through pastoral farm lands and d…
driving to a nearby fundraiser for relatives of a friend who had died the previous week. The impact crushed the rear half of the vehicle and sent it careening into a parked SUV about 60 feet away in a gravel ditch.died in the collision. Two more members of the family remained hospitalized in critical condition this week.
“It was chaotic,” said Jimenez hours after the crash. “There are no words to describe it — I’m still in shock.” Six crashes, not including Sunday’s, have been reported to the Federal Railroad Administration at the crossing since 1985, during which one person died and two people were injured, according to federal records. Another 10 crashes have been reported at the crossing directly to the east, across the street from Orwood Resorts. Three of those crashes involved injuries — including one in 2011 that left 57 people hurt, records show.
BRENTWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 28: A Burlington Northern and Santa Fe freight train passes over a railroad bridge as youngsters jump into the Delta near Orwood Road in Brentwood, Calif., on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Not far from the bridge, three people died, and three others were injured in an Amtrak-car crash on a railroad crossing last Sunday.
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