Five teens inside a Jeep were playing a game, based on ghost legends, when they parked on railroad tracks just after midnight Tuesday morning.
"They were playing a stupid game called 'Ghost Train,' and the object is to get scared, kind of like telling stories on Halloween," said Butler County Coroner Jim Akers. "The game was to park on the tracks, let the windows fog up inside and let your mind play tricks on you."
But the game took a deadly turn when a real Amtrak train approached and the driver couldn't restart her vehicle, Akers said. Three of the teens got out safely, but two girls in a panic couldn't unbuckle their seatbelts in time. The Jeep's owner returned to the car and helped unbuckle her friends, just as the train smashed into the vehicle, Akers said.
"They were playing a stupid game called 'Ghost Train,' and the object is to get scared, kind of like telling stories on Halloween," said Butler County Coroner Jim Akers. "The game was to park on the tracks, let the windows fog up inside and let your mind play tricks on you."
But the game took a deadly turn when a real Amtrak train approached and the driver couldn't restart her vehicle, Akers said. Three of the teens got out safely, but two girls in a panic couldn't unbuckle their seatbelts in time. The Jeep's owner returned to the car and helped unbuckle her friends, just as the train smashed into the vehicle, Akers said.
