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Originally Posted by MGP
But it seems there is a reliable witness, an off duty police officer, who accordgin to ITV news at least, was trying to use the level crossing phone to warn signal staff there was a problem.
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That's what I was meaning. The car is trapped between the barriers - what do you do? Waste precious time trying to stop the train by using the emergency telephone, or move the car so it's end on and not side on? Like a previous poster said, a high speed train takes several miles to come to a stop, so there's a point at which a crash becomes inevitable and the only option left open is to try to maximise the changes of the train staying on the track.