IDs confirmed for a few women killed in East Bay collision in between Amtrak and car or truck

Specifics commenced to emerge Monday about the 3 men and women killed a working day previously when a practice slammed into their motor vehicle when they drove throughout an unmarked railroad crossing near Brentwood.

Three females — two from Dixon and a person from Antioch — died in the crash, which arrived as they were being driving down a extended dirt driveway to a winery assets. A fundraiser was currently being held on the property for the spouse and children of a person who had passed absent unexpectedly past week. At the very least 4 other people today have been injured in the crash, 3 of them critically.

Killed in the crash were being Julia Mondragon, 41, of Dixon Maria Nieves, 72, of Dixon and Mercedes Regalado, 51, of Antioch, according to the Contra Costa coroner’s business.

A baby and two guys also have been hospitalized with intense injuries, in accordance to the East Contra Costa Hearth Defense District.

East Contra Costa firefighters have been presently on their way to the fundraiser — staying held at a Bloomfield Vineyards residence off Orwood Road in close proximity to Bixler Street — when they arrived upon the wreckage of the crash, said Battalion Main Craig Auzenne.

A four-door sedan carrying the women was going north on the driveway towards the fundraiser when it was strike by a westbound Amtrak teach, Auzenne stated. The vehicle barreled off the tracks and into a parked SUV about 60 ft absent.

None of the 81 passengers or five crew users of the 5-car Amtrak educate was hurt in the collision, Auzenne claimed. The practice came to a end about a quarter-mile from the internet site of the crash.

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