(29 Dec 2014, 10:53 pm)aureolin wrote Baffling. The article makes clear that the HGV driver was being cautious, and no one has thought to ask Network Rail or Durham County Council why they aren't gritting routes that pose a severe danger to human life. It should be common sense that a downward slope towards a level crossing is gritted, and as a matter of course, not upon an ad-hoc request.
The thing is that road salt works best once it's been 'ground in' by cars and the like. If there was no traffic between the gritting and the barriers closing, it would've had little effect.
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