3 are ill-equipped to be in a position to monitor level crossing safety effectively and to take both corrective and pro-active measures to improve the safety of their level crossing installations. Notwithstanding this, it appears that in many regions, railways. Similarly, it is the railway, which has most of the responsibility for educating road users on the safe use of its level crossings. Since it is the railway which must bear the responsibility for ensuring that it is protected from the transgressions by road users (despite the fact that in many countries the law gives it priority of passage over road users), it is the railway which also has to shoulder most of the financial burden of providing this protection. A very high number of these collisions are caused by the negligence, incompetence or incapacity of road vehicle drivers, who by and large operate their vehicles in environments in which safety consciousness is practically non-existent.
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