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Passenger car drivers can be fined $200 if they don’t stop at the crossings when the gates are down and lights are flashing. Drivers of gasoline trucks, school buses and trucks carrying any kind of explosives must stop at crossings at all times or face a $500 fine.
Transit police are cracking down on drivers illegally passing through commuter rail crossings on the South Shore, issuing more citations and warnings to curb a rising trend and increase safety for the holiday season.
Since Dec. 9, when transit police began “Operation Jingle Bells,” 40 citations have been issued to drivers in Abington, Braintree and Weymouth. The majority (32) have been issued in Abington, including one Monday morning after an inbound commuter rail train from Kingston slammed into a car stopped on the tracks at North Avenue. The train ripped off the car’s front panels and bumper, but the driver, 45-year-old Jean Dera of Randolph, luckily escaped unharmed.
Last month, another car was struck by a train at the same intersection. That incident sparked the increased enforcement in Abington, which has six railroad crossings.
Many of the violators are fuel truck and school bus drivers, who are required to always stop at the crossings regardless of whether the gates are down, according to MBTA Transit Police Sgt. Preston Horton.
“We’re finding it to be a lot of school buses and gas truck operators who are slowing down, doing a little ‘Hollywood roll’ and continuing through, which is completely unacceptable,” Horton said.
Transit police will continue to monitor drivers illegally crossing the tracks in those three towns through the end of the year.
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