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BNSF to pay $4M in Anoka MN crash judgment
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=georgia,palatino>Here is the article in the Minneapolis Tribune.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P><FONT size=3><FONT face=georgia,palatino> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://www.startribune.com/local/east/64462297.html?page=1&c=y"><FONT face=georgia,palatino color=#800080 size=3>http://www.startribune.com/local/east/64462297.html?page=1&c=y</FONT></A></P><FONT size=3><FONT face=georgia,palatino> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT><FONT size=3><FONT face=georgia,palatino> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=georgia,palatino size=3>In everything it says, plus in all of the discussion we had in a long thread on this topic last summer, with all of its references, I have yet to hear any clear explanation of why BNSF is at fault.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have yet to hear convincing proof that the gates and/or signals failed to activate.</FONT></P><FONT size=3><FONT face=georgia,palatino> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=georgia,palatino>The highway patrol claims to have proven that the vehicle could not have gotten into the position where it was hit if it had run around the lowered gate, so therefore, the gate was not lowered.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fair enough, but I don’t believe they proved that the vehicle was where they say it was when it was hit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That evidence depends on determining the precise point of impact on the assumption that it must coincide perfectly with the exact beginning of an exploding debris field that ultimately covered several hundred square feet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=georgia,palatino></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=georgia,palatino>If they were just fifteen feet off in their determination of the point of impact, it refutes the conclusion that the driver was where they say he was.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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