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It does and it doesn't work. It works if the person believes in the actions that can be and will be taken against them happens. Here in Illinois, if you refuse to show up in court, or pay the taick, your drivers license will be suspended until paid. The longer you take to pay, the larger the fine. <br />Then there is also the people who figure, They can beat the light; or the red lights on a railroad crossing don't matter, because they don't have the same meaning of a city light! I have watched idiots try to beat a train to a crossing and lose. I have seen a railroad worker, try to beat a switch engine out of the yard, only to have his car "stall" on the yard track, then get hit, and shoved into the switchtenders' shack. People today don't care about anything except getting to and from where ever thay are going. <br />Then there are the "new people" to this country, who think they are never going to have this happen to them, then it does. They are the biggest problems for everyone. They dart out across a tack in front of a train, and think they will make it...and don't! <br />The other problem too, is after an accident, even if it is not the trains fault, the railroads, instead of fighting the people whose vehicles have been hit, wind up paying them off. The railroads are partly at fault, for not fighting back. <br />No matter where you go, there are cameras to watch over crossings, and city streets, but they still are not enough! <br /> ralph zimmer n9kym@aol.com
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