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Federal investigators said a dump truck driver in rural Missouri last year may have never seen an oncoming Amtrak train before it was too late. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday that the railroad crossing's poor design contributed to the derailment last June that killed four and injured 146 others. Officials say the road approaching the crossing was too steep and the angle made it hard for the dump truck driver to see the approaching train. The crossing near Mendon didn’t have any lights or signals to warn about an approaching train. Residents had previously expressed concerns about the safety of the crossing because of the lack of visibility. The crossing was closed after the derailment.

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The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana. But it would be a big undertaking to install those devices on the more than 23,000 locomotives that the major freight railroads own. Safety expert David Clarke at the University of Tennessee said it's not clear is these sensors would have caught the flaws investigators believe caused the Montana derailment. But attorney Jeff Goodman is convinced his clients who died in the derailment would have lived if the trains that passed through this area beforehand had been equipped with these sensors.

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