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In the link at the top of this page, there are 58 photos.  I looked through them, and did not see any that showed the crossing as viewed from the direction the driver was approaching.  I might have missed it, or maybe there is one in another link.  Can somebody tell me where such a picture is posted? If it is the crossing that I think it is on the satellite map, the driver would have approached it on a road running parallel to the railroad, maybe 100 feet away from the tracks, with a solid line of trees between the road and the tracks.  Then, the road makes a sharp right, and goes over the crossing.  So when approaching the crossing, it would be easy to look to the left side down the track.  You could look right out the windshield and see that view.  But looking to the right would require turning your head about 180-dgrees to the right and looking backward.  On a trash truck, there is no such view available because the back of the cab is blocked by the box.  So the only such rear view to the right is through the right side mirror.  Yet the right side mirror is aimed to see down the right side near the truck and adjacent lane.  It would not see the railroad line because it is too far away, and it is obscured by trees.  Now this is how it looks on the satellite map, and I might be looking at the wrong crossing.  But it looks like the only way to properly yield to a train when approaching that crossing from the direction the truck approached would be to stop the truck, get out, walk up to the crossing, and look down the tracks. I speculate that no driver ever did that.  They always approached and looked to the left, but not to the right.  And because of the odds of an approaching train being present, nobody got hit until this time.
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