An 11-year-old California girl was killed and her mother was left clinging to life after a train crashed into their car as it was attempting to cross the tracks Tuesday night.

The fatal accident involving a Metrolink commuter train took place in Redlands, a city 60 miles east of Los Angeles, around 8:30 p.m, the Redlands Police Department said.

The woman and her daughter were in a car northbound on Alabama Street when the vehicle “ended up on the tracks” in the path of the westbound Metrolink train.

The train was doing about 50 mph when the engineer spotted the car on the tracks and hit the brakes, but was unable to stop in time.

Police said that the driver’s 11-year-old daughter was ejected from the vehicle on impact and was pronounced dead at the scene. She has not been identified as of Thursday.

Redlands Fire Department paramedics responded to the scene and treated the mom, before she was taken to a hospital in critical condition.

The victims’ silver sedan was left completely mangled, with a railway crossing arm imbedded in its interior. The force of the impact scattered debris from the car all over the road.

“We just heard a loud bang,” Saalim Scott, who works nearby, told the station KTLA. “I thought it was something falling off the truck. We all came out and we saw the car and somebody off to the side.”

At the time of the collision, there were two passengers, the engineer and a conductor aboard the train traveling from the University of Redlands to San Bernardino.

One of the passengers was hospitalized after complaining of pain in the wake of the crash. The two Metrolink employees were unharmed.

Police are now trying to piece together how the car ended up on the tracks. They said the initial investigation indicated that all safety gates and signals were working properly.

The Metrolink engineer did not sound the horn as the train approached Alabama Avenue because Redlands’ crossings are designated “quiet zones.”

Cops said there were “no signs of drugs or alcohol in the driver’s system.”