Mother tries to beat train with her 4 kids in the van. She fails.

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****ing idiot outruns a train, and tries to cross before it, then gets blindsided by a train going the opposite way, which then slams her into the train she was trying to out run. Two of her kids died instantly, she died days later and the other two kids survived.


(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 a.m. 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 condition Wednesday at another Chicago hospital.

Hammond police still are investigating the crash, relying partly on surveillance videos shot by NICTD cameras. NICTD owns the parking lot that Bolanos tried to cut through to beat the train, police said.

Bolanos lives several blocks northwest of the crash site and was heading south on Hohman Avenue at 9:48 a.m. Saturday when the eastbound train crossed Hohman and blocked it, the video shows.

The train blocked Hohman at 9:48:34, yet Bolanos did not even turn into the commuter train parking lot that parallels the freight train tracks for another 13 seconds.

In the NICTD parking lot, she zoomed east and overtook the train at 9:48:56.

At 9:49:01, a NICTD camera facing west captured images of both trains coming into view. Bolanos' van just began turning left toward the parking lot's eastern exit onto Johnson.

Four seconds later, the van pulled onto Johnson without stopping and drove toward the crossing -- the exact point that two trains heading in opposite directions were steaming forward.

At 9:49:11, the van pulled into the crossing and was struck in its rear half, slowing the van's forward progress just long enough for the other train to smash into it.
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The video its talking about. Nothing really that graphic since you cant really see anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMvtDNATP04&feature=related


EDIT: Another video of a news report on it explaining it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ynhobRmOQ&feature=related
 
Trains made mercy kills on the children, to prevent them from turning out like mother.
 
Poor kids... Dying in a vehicle is one of my worst fears. I'll be damned if I let somebody drive crazy like that to try and save a little ****ing time. It's not worth my life... but too bad the kids couldn't do anything and were entirely oblivious.
 
man, there is a lot of train related death videos on Youtube. They make my heart beat fast. The anticipation of the event just before it happens is ****ing intense.
 
Eh, 99% of Youtube "Drain deaths" are fake anyway.
 
Darwin Award Prize Winner.

She received, like all other recipients:

Death.
 
Van_Halen said:
And they gave us great pancakes! :D

That woman is a ****ing idiot. I hope she learns her lesson in the 7th ring of hell while her kids watch from above.
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Too bad the kids were gluttonous and they're in hell too.
 
What the shit? Stupid whore should've been shot before being allowed behind a vehicle, or outside a mental institution.
 
yeah that was probably the craziest thing I've ever seen in a car

maybe she'd been watching to many Jason Bourne movies

IT's not like she was stopped there, and went through the intersection or something


she raced the train through a god damn parking lot, and had to get the van sideways practically to make the turn.
 
TOOT TOOOTTTTTTT!!!


HERE COMES THE PWN TRAIN! all aboardddddd!!
 
What a silly fcuking bitch. I mean, what a fcuking stupid, mother fcuking bitch.

Good god... I .... D:
 
Naph said:
Darwin Award Prize Winner.

She received, like all other recipients:

Death.
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Actually she can't receive the award because 2 of her kids are still alive, and perhaps other family members too.
 
If i was the father, and the mother survived... You could count on that it whould only be temporary.
 
Would've been worthy of a Darwin award if she hadn't killed two of her kids too.
 
why not just step on the brakes and wait like less than a minute that sure is the time it takes for the train to pass
 
I could careless if a person that ****ing retarded died, but risk another persons life? 4 other peoples lives? **** YOU! She deserves never ending torment.

Rizzo89 said:
If i was the father, and the mother survived... You could count on that it whould only be temporary.
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I would seriously ****ing torture her with this video and train sounds and kids crying for her whole life.
 
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