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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Regarding the suggestion that both the railroad and the drivers were partly at fault:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">There ought to be clear rules governing the use of grade crossings for both trains and motor vehicles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With clear rules, there is no way that both parties of a collision can be at fault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the problem is that there is some degree of muddled thinking surrounding the rules of grade crossings arising from how the rules are written and what they mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The muddle is also partly the result of the evolving types of crossing protection over time, and evolving rules that governed them<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the railroads used train orders, all they had were words to prevent collisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Words mean things, and if there happened to be a collision, the railroads did not decide that both trains were sort of somewhat at fault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A train parked on a signalized crossing where the signals are not activated is far more likely to be run into than a train parked on a non-signalized crossing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is because drivers may be familiar with the signalized crossing and know it to be signalized, and they may not know that the signals have been de-activated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, they let their guard down and mistakenly rely on the signals to warn them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet both signalized and non-signalized crossings are protected by the un-illuminated crossbuck alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Operation Lifesaver will tell you that the crossbuck alone has the same meaning as a YIELD sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, there can be no excuse for driving into a train on the crossing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you run into the train, you broke the law by not yielding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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