A passenger in an SUV crossing railroad tracks at Candis Road in Plant City died after the train struck the side of the SUV .
One person is dead after an SUV tried to beat a train to the crossing and traveled into the train's path.
At about 4:05 p.m. Saturday, April 30, Bruce Dean, 19, was driving a 1996 Jeep west on Candis Road when he attempted to beat the train traveling south along Paul Buchman Highway, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department. The train hit the passenger side of the Jeep, where Angel Fidel Garcia-Vera, 20, was sitting. The impact pushed the Jeep off the tracks into a ditch. The jeep then overturned onto the driver's side.
Garcia-Vera died, and Dean was transported to Tampa General Hospital with serious injuries.
