At first Tara Lewman stopped at the gates that were down near the train track. But after waiting there for several minutes she decided to drive around them and across the tracks.
The Des Moines Register reports that Tara and her one year old Jordan were both taken to a hospital in unknown condition.
There was a witness who told KCCI "I heard the sound of impact. When I got there, she was trying to pull her baby out of the car seat. It had been thrown out of the van. The other two were laying quite a ways away from the van. She would talk, but she was totally incoherent. She just kept talking about her babies."