Arkansas One Of 12 States Trying To Improve Railroad Crossings
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A national safety board says only twelve
states -- including Arkansas -- have made satisfactory progress to
improve safety at ungated railroad crossings.
The National Transportation Safety Board made recommendations to
states after three children were killed by a train in 2000.
The states that made progress include Arkansas, Connecticut,
Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, South Carolina and Texas.
And seven of the 10 states with the most collisions between
trains and all kinds of vehicles at grade crossings have largely
ignored the recommendation. They are Alabama, California, Georgia,
Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi and Ohio.
