The car crushed by an express train at a Surrey Hills level crossing was not trying to evade boom gates and had its reverse lights on moments before it was hit, eyewitnesses say. The two elderly women, Denise Dobbyn and Carmel Iseppi, were neighbours in a Camberwell retirement village. The women, aged 73 and 71, died on Wednesday when their small black Hyundai was hit by a train travelling at 80km/h at a Surrey Hills level crossing.

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