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A mother caught on video more than week ago trying to race a freight train with her mini-van in northwest Indiana, before two of her children were killed when their vehicle was hit by two trains, died from her injuries early Tuesday.

Edie Bolanos, 32, was pronounced dead at 2:10 a.m. at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where she had been in critical condition since the Sept. 1 crash in Hammond, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Her death comes after two of her children, Crystal Bolanos, 11, and Anahi Bolanos, 8, were killed outside the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District’s Hammond station. Her two sons were treated for their injuries at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital and released.

Wow, I wouldn’t think of doing such a reckless thing if I were alone in the car much less my four children. No place I had to be on time is worth risking my kids’ life. Tragic.