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[quote user="tree68"] <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> Bucyrus:</div> <div></div> <blockquote>Well perhaps so, but it is a prediction that is impossible to verify.  And in that same vein, I predict that if the Active Advance Warning system had been applied to the crossing, the crash would have never happened.  </blockquote> <div style="clear:both;"></div>   </blockquote> Unless it somehow slaps the driver up alongside the head and shouts, "pay attention," no system is going to prevent an accident from happening if the driver is distracted, is not properly focussed on the road ahead, or is trying to beat the train. Thus we'll always see this kind of suit - the insistance that if government had done one more thing the incident wouldn not have happened... <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] There are many instances of the traffic control authorities adding more warning beyond the minimum, to a hazard just to increase the probability of attracting a driver’s attention.  They don’t draw a line in the sand.  It is absurd to believe that only so much warning is necessary and no additional warning will make any difference. With that reasoning, if all we had were non-signalized crossings, and someone suggested adding lights and gates, would you insist that adding lights and gates would not reduce crashes?
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