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Making railroad crossings safer is father's crusade | |
December 20, 2012 His daughter's death at a railway crossing near her Hinsdale home in 1994 put Lanny Wilson on a crusade to improve safety along train lines, with better gates and other measures. "Death should not be the penalty for making a mistake," said Wilson. From 2006 through 2011 in the Chicago region, there were 641 collisions with trains involving vehicles or pedestrians, a Daily Herald analysis found. Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121220/news/712209965/ |