The eeriest part about when a Brightline train collided with a car on Wednesday, seriously injuring someone, was not the crash itself, but the moments afterward, passengers told the Miami Herald.
Riders aboard the train, which was headed to Fort Lauderdale when it struck someone in North Miami, said there was a nervous wait after the moment of impact — after which train staff allegedly treated the crash “coldly” and kept “eerie”, “non-empathetic” smiles as they tried to move passengers’ attention away from the mangled car.
The crash occurred around 4 p.m. near the 14100 block of Biscayne Boulevard. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews quickly attended to the person in the car, who has not been identified. They were airlifted to a nearby trauma center. Their condition is unknown.
Alison Bethel, a regular commuter on the Brightline and a journalist, was on board and heard loud screeching and felt the conductor brake “really hard” in an attempt to avoid the collision…