Last week’s accident up in Mason involving the runaway boxcar is now bringing calls for improved crossing safety in that community. A WCPO.com article back in May reported that fatalities from railroad/ passenger car accidents in the Tri-state were among the highest in the nation, with Ohio being 6th. highest. Indiana and Kentucky were 3rd. and 13th., respectively.
This is in part a federal/state overlap, but the states do have a say.
Statutory provisions covering railroad crossings in Ohio are in ORC §4905.04, 4907.47, 4907.471, and 4907.52, with there being provision made in the Administrative Code for filing complaints “relating to dangerous crossings.”
Indiana’s are at IC §8-6-4 et.seq., and Kentucky’s at KRS §189.560 and 277.190
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