Emergency Meeting To Address Railroad Crossing Deaths
Dozens Of Drivers Cited In St. Landry Parish
POSTED: 7:57 am CST March 24,
2005
UPDATED: 8:09 am CST March 24,
2005
NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is holding an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss railroad safety.The daylong meeting in Baton Rouge will focus on finding solutions to a recent rash of fatal railroad crossing accidents.Meanwhile, dozens of drivers who zoomed over railroad tracks ahead of trains were ticketed Wednesday at crossings throughout St. Landry Parish.
Between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., state troopers and local officers cited 41 drivers for illegally crossing in front of a train.Ten people have died this year at railroad crossings in Louisiana -- six of them in two Tangipahoa Parish wrecks and three in one vehicle hit by a train in the Caddo Parish town of Oil City.
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