Were you to put up your hand, palm fully exposed as if making a stop sign, that could put you at a distinct disadvantage: impersonating a law-enforcement officer, or at least a crossing guard, without any weapons to back it up, and the driver for all you know with unaddressed anger-management issues behind the wheel of a 7, 000-pound Escalade.
An hour outside Mandalay, a bumpy road ends at a ferry crossing over a tributary of the Irrawaddy River.
At a ceremony at a former crossing-point, President Wulff said the wall had been "an expression of fear" of those who created it.
Bryson, who was driving a Lexus, rear-ended a Buick occupied by three men that was stopped at a railroad crossing in San Gabriel, said a police statement.
Bryson, who was driving a Lexus, rear-ended a Buick occupied by three men that was stopped at a railroad crossing in San Gabriel, according to a police statement.
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After the crash Network Rail said there had been a problem at the crossing a year ago, with the barrier rising and falling slowly, but it had been fixed and it was in full working order.
Network Rail said there had been a problem at the crossing a year ago, with the barrier rising and falling slowly, but it had been fixed and it was in full working order before the crash.
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This past December, a Metro-North train struck a car at a grade crossing in Redding, Conn.
Enke, 32, was struck by a train at a level crossing near Hanover.
The shooting occurred at a border crossing across from Blaine, Washington, where the motorist was traveling from, authorities said.
It comes after Lindsey Inger, 13, was killed at a Nottinghamshire crossing in November and two hefty fines for separate incidents.
Mr Thompson suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by the lorry at a pedestrian crossing and died five days later.
Residents and rail passengers have called for extra safety measures at a rail crossing in Berkshire where seven people died in a crash.
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"We don't want to inconvenience people too much, " protest organiser Lorena Garvey-Shepley told CBC at a border crossing with the US state of Michigan.
The barriers at a level crossing where two men died when a train hit their car appear to have been working correctly, police have said.
The quality of a car driver's eyesight was the most likely cause of a crash at a level crossing in which three people died, according to investigators.
The signalman had taken a call from a farmer who wanted to move his sheep across the line at a farm crossing some way up the railway line.
Bryson, who was driving a Lexus, rear-ended a Buick occupied by three men that was stopped at a railroad crossing in San Gabriel, said the police statement Sunday.
Barriers at a level crossing in Somerset where a man was killed were held down for longer than usual before he tried to cross the tracks, a report has found.
Network Rail and one of its signalmen have been fined for failing to ensure the safety of a woman killed when a train hit a car at a level crossing.
In North Yorkshire, a driver escaped uninjured after his car was hit by a train when it skidded on snow and onto rail tracks at a level crossing near Selby.
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The normal rules of search and seizure do not apply at a border crossing, so you may wish to re-think corporate policies if you or your employees routinely carry sensitive, proprietary, or even classified information when you travel.
Sure, having it near can keep me from the vagaries of boredom when stuck at a train crossing or in a waiting room, but it can also lead me to do hideous things like check Twitter when I really should be playing with my kids.
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Migration and the trafficking of drugs and guns across Mexico's northern border with the United States capture endless headlines. (This week agents fired at three vans containing 74 illegal immigrants as they failed to stop at a border crossing near San Diego.) But many of these problems are quietly mirrored on its southern frontier.
In 2004, seven people died in a derailment at the level crossing when a train hit a stationary car on the track.
Steven Smith, from Portincaple near Helensburgh, told the BBC Scotland news website he hoped they would find officials at a different border crossing would be more helpful.
According to a senior Western counterterrorism official, their names were on a watch list, and when they handed over documents at a European border crossing, their names registered with counterterrorism agencies.
So on Wednesday, Hamas lobbed a mortar shell at the Erez crossing point into Israel just as a group of Gazan Christians were standing on line waiting to travel to Bethlehem for Christmas.
They were wounded during a battle at the Yaarabiya-Rabia border crossing a few days ago.
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Their community awareness camps educate families in rural villages and city slums about the dangers of sex trafficking, and a daily patrol at crossing points along the India-Nepal border successfully rescues an average of four Nepali girls a day.
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