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Here is a very comprehensive report on crossing safety by the U.S. DOT.  It certainly seems to me that they regard the crossing problem very seriously, and look for ways to mitigate it.  It gives an idea of how much care and attention is given to finding solutions to the crossing problem.  <a href="http://www.oig.dot.gov/sites/dot/files/pdfdocs/mh2004065.pdf">http://www.oig.dot.gov/sites/dot/files/pdfdocs/mh2004065.pdf</a>  Quote from the link:   Motorist behavior caused most public grade crossing accidents. Risky driver behavior or poor judgment accounted for 31,035 or 94 percent of public grade crossing accidents and 3,556 or 87 percent of fatalities, during the 10- year period. With the exception of 22 train passengers and railroad employees, all of these fatalities were motorists. According to accident reports, motorists failed to stop at grade crossings or drove around activated automatic gates. Of the 10 states we visited, only Illinois had passed photo enforcement legislation to deter grade crossing traffic violations. Further, only 4 of the 10 states we visited—Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas—had imposed specific grade crossing penalties for motorists’ violations. Safety could be improved with enhanced education, legislation, and traffic enforcement to target motor vehicle drivers who violate grade crossing safety laws and warnings.   Here is another report titled: Risk assessment techniques and a new human reliability analysis technique, the Event Window specific to the behavior characteristics at Active and Passive railway grade crossings, how this can assist risk assessment and save peoples lives <a href="http://www.trforum.org/forum/downloads/2005_RailGradeCross_paper.pdf">http://www.trforum.org/forum/downloads/2005_RailGradeCross_paper.pdf</a> Like the above report, this one goes miles deep into learning driver attitudes and how to modify those attitudes in order to mitigate crossing crashes. Regarding comments about my bank robbery analogy: It was only to reply to zugmann in the context of his comment where he used the same analogy.   I don’t understand the points that some are now trying to make of it. Regarding crash statistics comparing the number of crossing crashes to the number of drivers: I doubt that any railroad company concludes that grade crossing crashes are not a problem because there are only 2054 of them in a year.  Everything I have read about crossing crashes indicates that they are regarded as BIG problem.
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