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		<title>Amtrak train collides with semitrailer. Ten injured.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chicago-bound Amtrak train crashed into a semitrailer stuck on a railroad crossing in Leoni Township. The railroad crossing accident occurred when the truck driver, David Zimmer, was stuck trying to shift between drive and reverse in the middle of the crossing. Fortunately, there were no fatalities. Ten people, including Zimmer, were treated for minor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man killed at railroad crossing. Crossing arms were coming down.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delmer Bright, 83, was crossing the train tracks in his Chevy Blazer on Cumberland Avenue in Hazard, Kentucky when an empty CSX train engine hit his vehicle. Tonya Liford witnessed the railroad crossing accident. She said she saw everything and noted the crossing arms started coming down as Bright was driving through the railroad crossing.
Eyewitness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amtrak train strikes vehicle, kills two, in Kenner, Louisiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Amtrak train struck a vehicle at a railroad crossing just outside western Kenner. The railroad crossing accident killed the vehicle’s two occupants. The crossing is located at the intersection of the Kenner-St Charles line and the CN Railroad. The crossing does not have crossing arms. It’s a private road that’s usually used by levee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UTA hopes to curb excessive TRAX accidents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UTA says there are too many railroad crossing accidents and is making an effort to raise public awareness of the possible dangers at UTA TRAX stations in Salt Lake City. There have been 12 accidents in the last 12 months. UTA encourages pedestrians to look both ways, step back and be alert when crossing. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railroad companies push to relax safety rules at railroad crossings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years after a deadly railroad crossing accident in California resulted in the Rail Safety Improvement Act, railroad companies are fighting to relax the Act’s provisions. One aspect of the law requires railroads to install Positive Train Control, or PTC, that automatically applies the brakes on trains about to collide or derail.  The National Transportation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fatal railroad crossing accident claims life of retired mailman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael “Bogie” Levgard, 64, of Palatine, Illinois was killed when his 1999 Mercury Sable was struck by a passing Metra train at the Palatine station. After the railroad crossing accident, railroad officials told police the crossing was operating correctly and the gates were down preventing cars from crossing the tracks. However, Jill Gilman Foelker, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hopewell, Virginia railroad crossing concerns drivers and residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A railroad crossing accident that occurred on Elm Street, between 15th Street and Arlington in Hopewell has alarmed drivers and residents to the intersection’s dangers. The crossing does not have flashing lights or crossing arms. Although the road isn’t well traveled, those who do travel through the crossing daily are concerned. Said one truck driver, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railroad crossing in Vinings Village causes safety concerns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to a power loss, the CSX railroad crossing at Paces Ferry Road in Vinings Village, Georgia went into safe mode. This meant the crossing guard would lower into place for two hours. During this time, a traffic jam resulted and some left their cars to lift the crossing guard so others could pass through. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evergreen, Alabama railroad crossing is the state’s deadliest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WSFA 12 News conducted an analysis on the crossing on Belleville Street in Evergreen and determined it is the deadliest railroad crossing in Alabama. From 2005 to 2010, there were six railroad crossing accidents. Since October 2010, there have been four more accidents and three more fatalities for a total of five in six years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railroad crossing in Missouri blamed for punctured tires</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a railroad crossing just north of Jasper, Missouri, drivers are reporting flat tires after passing over the tracks and hitting a single spike sticking up. Jasper County Eastern District Commissioner Jim Honey said there has been multiple railroad crossing accidents at this crossing, including one fatality. He went on to say the Missouri &#38; [...]]]></description>
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