SAN JOSE, Calif. — Three people died and at least four others were injured when an Amtrak train slammed into a car Sunday afternoon near Brentwood, sending it careening off a long dirt driveway and into another vehicle, a California Highway Patrol officer on scene said.
The crash happened about 1 p.m. as the car pulled into a long rural dirt driveway leading to a long rural dirt driveway near the intersection of Orwood Road and Bixler Road in eastern Contra Costa County, at a private crossing with no railroad crossing adjacent to it, according to a BNSF Railway spokesman. Three women — all women over the age of 50 — died, said Battalion Chief Craig Auzenne of the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District.
A child and two men also were hospitalized with severe injuries, Auzenne said. One other person suffered moderate injuries.
