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Just watching a report on Sky News on this, about people running the risk at all types of crossing... even the alarmed/barriered ones.

What are your opinions on this?

The Scottish are apparently considering a proposal where anyone is caught jumping an active crossing by giving them 9 penalty points (Quite right I think also!)
 
You would have to be a complete **** to try and squeeze past closing barriers, or ignore flashing warning lights and the sirens.
 
Na no fine/points whatever. If your stupid enough to try it and get caught the last thing on your mind as the train hurdles towards you will be the 9 points :p
 
^ very true, I thought most gates were quite low off the ground anyway so if the barriers were already lowering it would be quite hard to run them.
 
My view is that they are morons and should be slapped repeatedly with a large wet fish in a public place to highlight their stupidity.
 
It's all well and good sayings it's hard to run them but in all honesty, people still find a way to do it some of the time.

I think a similar system to Traffic Light cameras could be introduced... I think 9 points is a little excessive, 3, maybe 6 for complete idiots.
 
I'd be inclined to agree with it.

At the end of the day its not worth the risk to life and limb, the cost of damage and potentially a very upset or messed up train driver etc.

For the sake of a few seconds, minutes at most?
 
They should fit the sort of spikes that stop you going the wrong way into a car park, so when the lights are on,you can drive onto the crossing but not off...... So if you jump the lights, you will be hit by a train and you will be killed. The problem would go away overnight
 
You would have to be a Grade A retard to try and jump a crossing, so I'm all for harsher penalties.
 
...whatever the case though, you'll be safer if you wear 2 hard hats and 2 high visibility jackets :D
 
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OllyM said:
You would have to be a Grade A retard to try and jump a crossing, so I'm all for harsher penalties.
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One of the biggest retardations I've come across was at one of the crossings in Exeter. There's a camera there which looks like a speed camera, but is obviously to catch people jumping the lights.

Someone vandalised it, like they do with speed cameras. Now I understand people getting annoyed with speed cameras, although I don't agree with vandalising them....but the safety camera at a crossing...WTF!?
 
OllyM said:
You would have to be a Grade A retard to try and jump a crossing, so I'm all for harsher penalties.
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This.


The only possible reason I can think of for some people to do it is because "Last time I stopped and waited and it was a few minutes before the train actually came. Wasted my time!". And surely the solution would be to have it standardised on all level crossings that the barriers come down exactly 30secs before the train arrives? That way that excuse is gone.
 
iaind said:
They should fit the sort of spikes that stop you going the wrong way into a car park, so when the lights are on,you can drive onto the crossing but not off...... So if you jump the lights, you will be hit by a train and you will be killed. The problem would go away overnight
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the cost for one, iirc there are at least 20 unmanned and ungated road/rail crossings in Scotland alone.. I'd need to look harder for the total number of crossings.

We can't even resurface the roads correctly up here!

At the end of the day I would have liked to think that possible death would be enough, but clearly not.
 
I hate to say it and I know we all hate them but traffic enforcement cameras would do a much better job than training new drivers and making the driving test even harder.
 
Westyfield2 said:
And surely the solution would be to have it standardised on all level crossings that the barriers come down exactly 30secs before the train arrives? That way that excuse is gone.
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Thats far too complicated given one train could be travelling at 125mph and the next 50mph.
 
beermonster said:
I would ban them immediately, if they cannot see the dangers of this type of manoeuvre then they have no place on the road endangering other peoples lives.
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This. Not only is there risk to their own live and who ever else is in the car. there's the drivers sanity, the delays and all the emergency services which have to clear it up.
 
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