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I think we really have two separate issues here.  One is whether the crash was the driver’s fault and other is whether better warning would have prevented the crash.  Notwithstanding the title of this thread, I do think the driver was at fault.  The larger question is whether Nevada could have done something to make the crash less likely.  <o:p></o:p> The driver did lose about 15 seconds of the active warning.  However, as I have pointed out several times, when a train and a vehicle converge in a perfect collision course at that crossing, the warning begins when a driver is 3000 feet away from the active warning device.  That perfect collision course probably does not happen very often, but when it does happen, I suspect that the drivers frequently lose part of the warning because initially it is so far away.    <o:p></o:p>
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