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   SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (AP) – A mother and her child 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.   
      
   The crash occurred at a railroad crossing, Amtrak spokeswoman   
   Vernae Graham said. She did not know whether the arms were down.   
      
   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 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.   
      
   Paul Wilke, a passenger on the train, told the news station that   
   the train was moving at normal speed when he heard a long   
   whistle and felt the train slow down and crash before stopping   
   quickly.   
      
   Firefighters responded after receiving a report of a train crash   
   with people trapped in the vehicle, Alameda County fire   
   spokeswoman Aisha Knowles said.   
      
   http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/05/24/amtrak-train-bound-for-   
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