REMOVAL THE ONLY REMEDY
The bill proposing to compel auto
mobiles to come to a full stop before
proceeding over railroad grade cross
ings is objectionable for two very co
gent reasons. In the first place, that
requirement would tend to throw the
burden of accidents at grade crossings
on the automobilist rather than on the
railroads which maintain the perpetual
o’anger there. In the second place, by
making it easier for railroads to
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escape the penalty for crossing acci
dents, such a law would encourage de
lay in the abolition of grade crossings
instead of hastening it. In a trial for
damages claimed of a railroad foi
death or injury at a grade crossing
the first effort of the defense would
be to show that the automobile figur
ing in the crash had not stopped be
fore attempting the crossing, and
there would be supreme effort on the
part of the railroad special agents to
show this to have been the case.
