Car crashes into the train while racing against it; 2 dead

Two individuals were killed after their vehicle collided with an Amtrak train Saturday night in Houston as the vehicle was attempting to beat the train at an intersection, authorities said.

The vehicle, conceivably a Chrysler 300, circumvented one more vehicle halted at the Van Hut Lane crossing and “attempted to slice through the arms” that were down, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.

The vehicle crashed into the traveler train and was “immediately immersed on fire,” Harris said. Two individuals were tossed from the vehicle and articulated dead at the scene, he added.

“The sound and the arms were down at the train crossing,” Gonzalez said. “There’s an explanation that those arms are enacted, lights and sounds are initiated, all it the local area safe and to caution that there’s a train drawing nearer.”

The train was conveying 81 travelers and voyaging westward from New Orleans to Los Angeles, Amtrak representative Kimberly Woods said in an articulation.

The train stayed upstanding and in one piece on target, the assertion said. “It continues forever well when someone attempts to beat a train,” Gonzalez said. “Being an extended investigation’s going.”

Amtrak said it’s working with neighborhood policing research the accident.