Blaming the victim?(On Track)

Railway Track and Structures | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

I recently had the pleasure of reading a well-written piece on grade-crossing safety that appeared in the Los Angeles Times. The reporter talked to several experts, from a cognitive psychologist to the FRA to a professor of industrial and engineering systems at USC. The article discussed several factors, ranging from difficulties in judging the speed of large objects to changing the type of signage so there is one indicator for gated track and a different indicator for non-gated track.

One thing that caught my eye was this paragraph: "The tendency to blame the ...

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