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Yet another case of the jury and media trying to pin the blame on the "Big, Bad Railroad" in yet another case... [banghead] The parents obviously aren't willing to admit that maybe, perhaps, their kids did what most new (and not) drivers do at railroad crossings, break the law and drive around the gates.I don't think the control boxes have any information recording the position of the gates at every given time. Over 6 years ago (the crossing is most likely much older than the crash) there were not small, cheap, solid state electronics to record this, and the last thing the railroad wants is more moving parts to maintain. Also, the article stated that the car had a "black box" like device, which I think may be incorrect. I've never heard of anything like that being installed in cars.Speaking of event recorders, wouldn't the locomotive's cameras pick up whether the gates were down, and if the car went around them? They already know the train was doing 62, so that probably means it has an event recorder, and at that speed, is more likely to be a road freight with newer power than a local with older power. So having cameras is not out of the question...The media is defietely taking sides on this one...not that they don't every single other time someone gets hit by a train...
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