NEW YORK (AP) — Ellen Brody was driving home from her jewelry-store job, inching her SUV through suburban traffic toward a railroad crossing, when she became the center of a commuter-train crash that killed her and five rail riders.
As investigators strove Wednesday to understand how her car ended up boxed between crossing gates as the train bore down, so did those who knew Brody as an outgoing, thoughtful mother of three who was mindful of safety.
She was not “somebody who was careless – not risky when it came to her safety or others,'” said Paul Feiner, a longtime friend and the town supervisor in Greenburgh, an area near the crash site in Valhalla.
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On his Facebook page, Alan Brody thanked “those who shared their condolences for the terrible tragedy that took my beloved wife, Ellen, whom so many of you knew.”
He said her funeral will be held Friday morning at Chabad of the Rivertowns.
