Originally Posted by
WildCat
Maybe, but the NTSB has confirmed that the truck entered the crossing several seconds after the lights and bells went on, and the gate came down on the trailer. That driver should be charged with something!
Originally Posted by
DreamingNaiad
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.
Originally Posted by
Skeptic Ginger
I fail to see how the whistle would have mattered. The driver stopped on the tracks. That's simply 100% avoidable with the rare exceptions of an intersection where there isn't room to pull up to the light in a long vehicle and not be on the track.
True, but there were police in the immediate vicinity directing traffic, and had they heard the train miles off, they would almost certainly not have allowed the parade to proceed across.