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Is Amtrak Crash Nevada’s Fault?
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; 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="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zugmann,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Consider this example:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Say that a hypothetical grade crossing has one fast train per month, and one vehicle crossing per month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now say that the crossing is completely unmarked with no visibility down the tracks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Say the tracks are in a blind cut on both sides of the road, and there are no flashers, no gates, no crossbucks, and nothing to indicate the crossing is there except the rails in the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you consider that crossing to be exceptionally dangerous?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Yet with only one train and one vehicle per month, there might not be a collision in 100 years if they don’t happen to arrive at the crossing at the same time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the infrequency of collisions might suggest that the crossing is not dangerous, and yet the deficiencies in the crossing warning obviously make it as dangerous as can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span> </span></span></p>
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