A mother and her three-year-old daughter died Tuesday after an Amtrak train crashed into their SUV in the San Francisco Bay Area, authorities said.
The front of the SUV was crushed beneath the train in San Leandro, where the crash occurred Tuesday afternoon.
Vanessa Henriquez, 30, and her three-year-old daughter, Saidy, both of Oakland, were attended by Alameda County Fire and Paramedics Plus but they were pronounced dead at the scene, according to KTVU.
The crash occurred at a railroad crossing, Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham said. She did not know whether the arms were down.
Henriquez also had a young son and was married to a man named Lorenzo.
There were 39 passengers on the train bound for Sacramento from San Jose. None of them was injured, Graham said.
The train is allowed to go up to 79 mph through the area. Graham said she didn't know how fast it was going.
The train pushed the SUV to what appears to be an eight and a quarter of a miles down the train tracks, according to police.
The scene might have been confusing for the driver of the SUV, San Leandro Police Lt. Robert McManus said. 'There is a construction zone which could have created some confusion,' McManus told KNTV-TV.
But another TV station, KTVU-TV, reported the SUV was stopped on the tracks because of traffic.
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