re: Madison County MS - Man and Two Children Killed in Collision With Train

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He would get so pissed because he said 99% of the time it was someone who didn't pay attention to the lights, tried to drive around the gates because they didn't want to wait for the train, or simply wanted to outrun the train

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Within Municipal areas, that is almost certainly the case. However, there are a large number of crossings in rural Louisiana that do not have gates and occasionally not lights. Often these are spurs that go to loading facilities for petroleum products, chemicals, or lumber.

A friend from high school was killed on by a train when his truck stalled on the tracks, unfortunately, I think he had been drinking. He was trying to restart the truck when it happened. There was no gate where he was but that was back in the early eighties near Duson, La