Warning signs up at railroad crossings in Biloxi

In the wake of Tuesday’s tragedy, the City of Biloxi aims to prevent train collisions with new warning signs at railroad crossings. News 25’s Kendra Turley gives us a look at the new additions along Esters Boulevard.
As people all across the Coast try to cope with Tuesday’s fatal collision, the City of Biloxi is hard at work to minimize risks at railroad crossings. Biloxi resident Willie Earl Banks said, “I’ve seen Coca-Cola trucks, train trucks, furniture trucks, all of that get hit on this train track.”
In a matter of hours, Biloxi public works employees created and posted warning signs at high-risk crossings throughout the city. City of Biloxi Public Affairs Manager Vincent Creel said, “We’re trying to do everything that we can do to let the public know that some of these crossings have issues because of clearance.”
Many of the railroad crossings along Esters Boulevard already had warning signs, but now drivers will see additional signage warning no buses, trucks, or RVs. Biloxi resident Vicente Munoz said, “This is a tourist community and if they don’t or aren’t aware of it and they get caught in traffic and they feel obliged to make an attempt to get over it, that could be very dangerous.”
The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation into Tuesday’s bus versus train accident labeled the steep incline on the north side of Main Street tracks a major issue. Attorney Bill Cunningham, who is filing a lawsuit regarding the fatal crash, said, “Those are some of the regulations and some of their own regulations, state regulations, that that hump needs to be lowered because someone is going to try to go across there and may not see those signs.”
Just this morning a Greyhound bus attempted to drive over the incline. “Fortunately we had a fire truck right there on the scene that just happened to be passing by to stop that Greyhound bus before it tried to go across those tracks,” said Creel.
The city plans to place additional signs at other problematic crossings over the next week.