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a little personl observation on this topic.... <br /> <br />I am in Oxnard at least 10 times a year with my 18 wheeler, and I almost always cross the tracks where that wreck happened. first off, you can see that the truck driver stopped on the tracks, with his cab just past the crossing gates. so the truck driver had no idea that a train was coming and he could not see that the lights were flashing or that the gates were coming down. I dont know how he could not have heard the train horn. but when you are trapped by a red light, you see that you just hit the gates, and you hear a train coming, you go into sensory overload and a lot of people just freeze up. <br /> <br />when you are at that crossing, if you look to the right you see the entrance to the small yard at oxnard, then the tracks curve to the right where the depot is. when you look to the left (the direction that this train came from) you have nothing but straight tracks for a few miles. all it takes is one glance and you can see a train quite a long way off. to me, this looks like another case of someone not paying any attention whatsoever to what was going on.
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