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“All signs, gates and signals at the crossing itself are the responsibility of the railroad company,” Thompson said. Some of the factors considered for installing flashing lights and gates ...
Protected only by flashing lights, officials have spoken to state and railroad officials about the need for gates at that crossing. "When they put those (the second set of tracks) in, we made the ...
As a result, the vehicle struck the railroad gate arm – and bent it into the path of the train. Officials said in a post on the Elm Grove Police Department Facebook page, the crossing's lights ...
lights and gates where the Washington Eastern Railroad crosses Coulee Hite Road, northwest of Airway Heights. The crossing is surrounded by wheat fields, roughly halfway between Fairchild Air ...
In all six recent incidents, authorities said safety mechanisms, including railroad crossing gates and warning lights, had functioned as intended and that driver errors were to blame. Nationally ...
THEN IT ALL BUT ONE RAILROAD CROSSING IN THE ENTIRE NORTHEAST. NOW, AS YOU CAN PROBABLY SEE, THERE ARE NO LIGHTS OR GATES HERE, BUT YOU PROBABLY CAN’T SEE IS IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE AN ...
45-year-old Nikolas Thompson of Salem, Ohio was killed by an Amtrak train after he intentionally drove around closed railroad crossing ... at crossings with lights and or gates," Stouder told ...