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[quote user="WIAR"] What you can't see from a satelite image is the length of the gates when they're down across that road.  As I recall from the last time out there, the gates do extend-out far enough to cover both lanes, so swerving around them wouldn't be all that easy because the road is narrow there.  There are multiple tracks at the crossing.  The train was westbound and the car was heading from Ramsey into Anoka, so they got hit on the left side of the car.  That means, in my opinion, that there's no way they couldn't have seen that train approaching as the visibility towards the direction of the approaching train (eastward) is unobstructed from the north side of the tracks. I would surmise they saw the train approaching and the gates were down, tried to swerve left around the gates, went off the grade-crossing surface, bottomed out on the rail and that held them up long enough to get hit. [/quote] That is a good point that there is no indication from the photo showing the length of the gates.  I have not looked at the actual crossing.  If the gates do extend across both lanes, successfully running around them at 28 mph when lowered seems improbable.
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