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Originally Posted by Djeffery
I think it's the roadways at the crossings that are beat up from traffic, not the rails.
I don't get the point with that video from Poland. It was an idiot driver that went through the barricade. Therefore there should never be a level crossing anywhere? That video wasw also at night, and the road curved to the tracks. And a group of people get out of the car, so was the driver distracted by conversation? Maybe alcohol involved? I don't see the speed of the train being the problem here. Maybe there should be better signage and barriers as well.
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Did you see the headline of that article?
Level crossing collisions do happen. With a high-speed train, the engineer has less reaction time if a vehicle is on the tracks, and so less time to slow down.
The risk is obviously greater to the road traffic, but there can be a significant risk of derailment. This has happened, and that is the reason countries who are good at real high-speed rail generally avoid level crossings.
If the train had impacted the car directly, rather than clipping the back of it, or if it had been a larger vehicle, the outcome might have been a lot different in that Polish case.