Families call for crossing gate to be installed at scene of fatal train crash

Anywhere around that railroad track belongs to CSX. You can't work anywhere around it without CSX being present.

You don't need a gate, you need drivers to pay attention and follow traffic laws!

The LEAST it should have is lights!

No train crossing should be without lights. I don't care if it is in the middle of the desert, this is 2023

Because it's so hard to LOOK. There's only so much idiot-proofing we can do.

It’s private property though 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢it’s a bad situation

2 crashes in 2 years…why is that considered new?

It’s a sad story, but the drivers license handbook states to stop look both ways and listen. We are all guilty of not doing this. And only get reminded when tragedy strikes.

There is a stop sign and a railroad crossing sign. Let's put a gate at every stop sign in the nation? Stop means hit the brakes.

Cheap effing bastards! That’s the real reason. Sue the shot out of them! Make them understand!

Out in the country in every state they only have signs and they don't need lights or arms it's law stop look and listen if people don't know the laws they should look them up trains always have the right away not the cars

Very sad. BUT, it was a R/R crossing WITH signs warnining drivers. Also trains have the loudest horns to warn you.
Did you ever hear one within 100 yards?
Maybe we should build bridges across every crossing so idiots that don't pay attention will be safe.

👍👍STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN! It is NOT ROCKET SCIENCE! You who want a crossing gate at ALL the 25,000+ railroad crossings though out the US SHOULD ALSO demand ALL 1,000,000+ STOP signs be replaced nationwide with traffic lights. Technology and barriers DO NOT FIX STUPID and INATTENTIVE drivers. Several people are killed by trains each year by going AROUND Railroad crossing arms that are down. Hundreds are killed each year by RUNNING Stop & Yield signs AND RED traffic lights. YOUR Taxes and prices would go up SIGNIFICANTY just to do this…. ALL because of INATTENTIVE DRIVERS.

The railroad will just take out the crossing. This driveway is in an access easement. They could just pull it. I would be cheaper just to remove all of these one off driveways.

All Railroad crossing should have some kind of light or Guard rail.

So stupid people need a physical barrier to keep them from hitting a train? Geezus.

How about you don't stop on the railroad tracks

There should Always be a gate at every train track. In Clearwater there is a No Horn sign ( for train) and I didn't even see a gate since seeing this accident on the News i have been so scared of going over the railroad tracks, i het so tense. Its just so scary.. my condolences sent out to this family, my heart breaks for ALL of them plus the one person who was killed in 2021

Two accidents in two years is not too bad when compared to the 1000s of accidents at crossroads, and they usually have lights. Had the driver pulled in front of a semi, this story would no longer be news worthy. People need to pay attention when they are driving.

This Is So Heartbreaking, Never Should Have Happened All Places Like That Should Have Those Things Come Down and Cars 🚗 Can't Go.

A train has lights, sirens & you can hear it rumbling down the tracks before it even gets to the train crossing. I live off a active railroad tracks in Dade City FL (a few hundred feet away). A good number of Floridians have that mentality that they have right of way/someone else will stop or react instead).

What happened to stop look and listen at unmarked r/r crossing as was when I was growing up in Polk county all of this would be with us

LOL 😂, because one person driving wasn't paying attention… a gate needs to be put up on a PRIVATE ROAD????

Come On, It's A Damn Gate And A Farmer Could Put One Up! Get Off Your Duffs And Somebody Just Do It!