Originally Posted by
BenBurch
OK, I confirmed today that this crossing was within a five-mile-wide quiet zone in which trains are prohibited from sounding their horns for crossings.
This ordinance murdered those people.
Had this train been blowing for every crossing from miles away, nobody would have been surprised by a train, and the float would likely not have been on that crossing.
Had the driver paid attention to the lights they would definitely not have been hit.
Plus, who stops ON the tracks ever? He should've stopped on the other side when he saw he couldn't clear the tracks.