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[quote user="tree68"] [quote user="TrainManTy"] 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. [/quote] They certainly do.  Google "Bosch CDR" for a sample of information. I find it curious that "marks in the roadway" indicate that the car got hit dead center.  I should think that those same marks could be used to discern whether the car was in an appropriate lane or was positioned such when it was hit to indicate that they had driven around the gates. I should also think the reported speed of the car (28 mph) would be an indicator.  Does that square with the posted speed limit for that road?  And is it possible to drive around the gates at that speed? It appears to me that pretty much the families' entire case centers around the data downloaded from the crossing equipment shelter, the fact that the RR didn't immediately volunteer it to the police (who probably didn't ask for it in the first place), and the possibility that said data may have been manipulated. These are rhetorical questions, by the way - no need to offer theoretical answers. [/quote] As I recall the posted speed for that stretch of the road is 30 MPH.  Driving-around the gates there at 28 MPH would seem to me to particularly treacherous (not that it isn't treacherous anyplace) because of the narrowness of the road (see my earlier post).  At that speed, in that location, I have to believe the car would definitey hit the rails outside the grade-crossing surface and get hung-up or at least slowed severely.
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