Arkansas rail crossing named in top 15 in nation with most accidents

An Arkansas city's railroad crossing has been identified as one of the top 15 U.S. road-railroad crossings with the most accidents in the past decade.

The Federal Railroad Administration says many of the crossings on a list, which includes Ashdown, involve multiple-lane intersections in neighborhoods with significant truck traffic or have tracks crossings roadways on a diagonal.

The list release Thursday included five crossings in Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona, along a Burlington Northern Santa Fe branch line that parallels multilane U.S. 60 with crossings at or near four intersections with multiple major streets.

Other places with crossings on the list include Ashdown, Arkansas; Elmwood Park, New Jersey; Muncie, Indiana; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Pascagoula, Mississippi; Cleveland; Waycross, Georgia; Memphis, Tennessee, and Houston.

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