{"id":47795,"date":"2020-10-30T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duplicate-3504444.findlaw4.flsitebuilder.com\/?p=47795"},"modified":"2020-10-29T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:02:17","slug":"the-deadly-risks-of-trying-to-outrace-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/blog\/2020\/10\/the-deadly-risks-of-trying-to-outrace-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"The deadly risks of trying to outrace trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countless movies of all genres depict car chases that see drivers racing across railroad tracks, escaping a crash with the oncoming train by a split second. The main characters look behind them, marveling that they survived the near-death experience.<\/p>\n<p>In the real world, many drivers are not so fortunate. The physics are simple when a car tries to race a train. A multi-ton transport lacks the ability to swerve or quickly stop. Bearing down on a vehicle will result in serious injury or death of the motor vehicle occupants. Increasingly sophisticated technology to prevent these tragedies can only go so far.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, nearly 800 Americans have lost their lives in these highly preventable collisions. Last year saw 126 people killed and another 635 injured. A vast majority of those were attempting to navigate around lowering crossing gate arms.<\/p>\n<h2>Much-needed awareness<\/h2>\n<p>In response to these tragic fatalities, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced the creation of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/press-releases\/stop-for-trains-railroad-grade-crossings\">awareness campaign<\/a> titled, &#8220;Stop. Trains Can&#8217;t.&#8221; The objectives are straightforward. Educate drivers on the deadly dangers of trying to cross tracks when trains are approaching and save lives at railroad crossings.<\/p>\n<p>Managed by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), ads will appear digitally and on the radio. Social media will also serve as a prominent platform.<\/p>\n<p>The awareness initiative has targeted Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, California, Indiana and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The national public education campaign will be funded to the tune of $6.6 million. While many will consider it costly, saving one life from a train-on-car accident could make it money well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countless movies of all genres depict car chases that see drivers racing across railroad tracks, escaping a crash with the oncoming train by a split second. The main characters look behind them, marveling that they survived the near-death experience. In the real world, many drivers are not so fortunate. The physics are simple when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}