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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dekemd I'll ask him when I see him. From my knowledge of the laws, it would depend on just how private the road is. If it is open to public traffic, as in not gated or posted no trespassing, then it would probably be considered a public vehicular area and motor vehicles laws would apply. For example, a Walmart parking lot is on private property, but you can be charged with traffic offenses when driving in the lot. That's how the law is in NC. You say the railroad did not have to and shouldn't have put the crossing signs up. Seems to me that they were trying to improve crossing safety. And you fault them for it. Kind of goes against everything you've said about the railroads. Does the driver of the truck not have a common law duty to make sure there is not a train coming before going across the crossing? Where in the article about the GA accident does it say it was a blind crossing? You say GA has no applicable laws, and post a link to an FRA document on vegetation clearances. No where in the article does it say that vegetation contributed to the accident, so where did you get that it did? I'm not going to press any charges against anyone in GA. I'm in NC and I don't have jurisdiction there. In regarding the bleach truck accident, maybe the A-pillar on the truck blocked his view of the train. I guess that the government should be held responsible for not requiring truck manufacturers to make transparent A-pillars. Does that sound about right to you? [/quote] I thought you went to a railroad brainwashing collision crash investigation course. There are four classes of private crossings. Name them. As for Wal-Mart half the transportation budget goes to redoing the roads, signals, etc... up to their front door which is usually city streets. $64 billion they have in the bank and we are paveing their parking lots, traffic lights, etc... and the roads two miles every direction. There isn't a crossing in the US hardly with the right sight lines for crossbucks where are the police writeing the tickets? When was the last time you ticketed a train for speeding---Do you even know the train speed limits through your patrol area to check sight lines at crossings? As for the chlorine truck the railroad probably clear cut the area as soon as it happened---moved the tanker cars etc... sitting there. Isn't that tampering with evidence. They do it all the time!! Oh we killed somebody well hurry and bring the dozers in before the videos are taken.
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