4 wheeler hits a fuel tanker.

With the prevalence of distracted drivers these days, requiring placarded vehicles to stop at highway RR crossings is just not safe.

 

Ya some place's have a 3rd lane that is just for Buses and trucks to stop in while checking for the Train.... Seems they should be making more of these lanes at all crossing...

 

Next year I'm not renewing my haz mat. I just had a 320 mile haz mat load from LA to AR. All side highways. I throw the 4 ways on and stop at the railroad crossings, if there's an exempt sign, I don't stop.

I was on a 4 lane divided highway and stopped at a crossing, I had a placarded tanker swerve to not hit me. No traffic except for him, he just didn't see the crossing or me. A big semi with 4 ways on and brake lights on.
I'm not a creep, I don't just jake and downshift, I also throw on the brake lights.

 

It is and has always been very safe. What's not safe is the douche distracted driver. They should be severely penalized and if need be jailed. Oregon and few other states have troopers ride with tanker and other drivers. They see them being cut off, raced to every exit/entrance, tailgated, etc and the douche drivers are pulled over. Ticketed and lectured about their poor driving. Many wind up having open warrants for them. Been trying to get Dallas PD to do the same. Few cops I talked to said they
were too scared. LOL

 

Louisville does this not with tankers per se but I know every now and again they jump I with pegasus drivers and watch then call in follow cars or turn on the radar on watching the breaks light up

 

I read in the comments section. One person said they need to have an extra lane for trucks and buses to come to a complete stop out of the main lane of traffic at crossings. Then another person said there IS another lane there and the truck was stopped in the extra lane.

That leaves open the possibility the person driving the vehicle was afflicted with a very severe case of ARS. The heartbreak of Anal Remora Syndrome has taken many a life.