TRAX accident (TRAXident)

i had a crazy experience on thursday night. i was riding on trax to go home at about 8 o'clock at night, and all of a sudden it felt like the conductor slammed on the brakes, and we got jostled for a minute and then kind of jolted to a stop. the conductor said there was a problem and he would give us more info as he could and to stay on the train. after about 5 minutes he said medical was coming and we realized that we had hit something. then after about 30 seconds about 40 ambulances, fire trucks and cop cars showed up. so we figured at this point that someone was hurt. at one point i saw them carrying someone away on a stretcher. i could tell he was at least, really hurt, because his arm was just flopping off the side. but then they took out another backboard from the ambulance, so i could tell that it wasn't just one person. after about 40 minutes some people got on the train and asked if we were hurt, and then evacuated us from the train onto a different train so we could catch our connections. so we drove by the front of the train and saw, for the first time, what had happened. a car, carrying four 18-20 year olds, had tried to squeeze through the railway gates to beat the trax. the car was destroyed, and that night when i got home, i turned on the news and heard that the two people on the drivers side had died and the other two were in critical condition. it just makes me so mad. its so useless. the other three passengers might not even have had a say in what the driver was doing. he just wanted to save two minutes. i couldn't stop thinking about it. to be in a vehicle that caused people to die is just a crazy emotion. i hope the other two will be okay, but it doesn't look good. and the poor conductor will have that image in his head for the rest of his life. hopefully people will wake up and get a little patience.