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[quote user="ButchKnouse"] <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> Bucyrus:</div> <div></div> I would speculate that the points of train/vehicle conflict are far more probable to have collisions than points of vehicle/vehicle conflict.  People get antsy and want to beat the train so they don’t have to sit there while the train stops on the crossing and fiddles around for a half hour.  <div style="clear:both;"></div>   </blockquote> People will also try to beat trains moving 60 mph, These trains are not going to stop. I think it's a combination of the Rebel Without a Clue mentality, where people learn to drive as teenagers, and then retain the habits. But the longer I live, the more I believe that a portion of the population seems to have an unconcious death wish. <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] I am referring to any trains, and even those moving 60 mph.  Drivers don't know or care how fast the train is going.  All they know is the flashers mean go for it while you have a chance or, risk an insufferable delay.  It is ingrained in society.  Everybody who has been driving for a little while knows that trains can block crossings with impunity.  They don't always do that.  But they do it enough to plant the idea in the mind of every driver.  And drivers have no way of knowing that a train is not going to stop.  People say drivers should be able to wait 1-2 minutes for a train to pass.  Sure they should, but they don't know whether it will be 1-2 minutes or 15 minutes.  So they take a chance zipping across ahead of the train rather than taking a chance getting delayed by it.  To most drivers, the flashers mean:   DELAY
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