CHICAGO (CBS) — Some newlyweds headed to their honeymoon never made it to their Amtrak train at Union Station—they ended up on the tracks instead.
Shundra Johnson and Leonard Stepheny said they often relive the traumatic experience and are now in physical and mental health therapy.
Video showed Johnson and Stepheny being driven in a passenger cart—similar to a golf cart—to their Amtrak train in June.
“We could start to feel, underneath us, bumps, where the caution, the yellow caution is on the platform,” said Johnson, “and as soon as I was getting ready to turn and look at my husband, the cart fell over onto the train tracks.”
Stepheny knew something was very wrong before the cart fell too.
“You could hear the tire go blub, blub, blub, blub, blub, blub—and it was like, he paid no attention,” said Stepheny. “He just kept going.”
Then, the unimaginable happened as the cart fell—as also seen on video. Johnson said her head hit a track, and then the passenger cart fell on top of her.