94 level crossings in Croatia to get active safety measures
source: KONČAR KET
Croatia takes action to make 94 level crossings safer to reduce incidents. Last week, an agreement was signed in order to provide the level crossings with active signalling and other safety measures. The rail-road crossings that are part of this project are places with a lot of mixed traffic. Most of them are located in Bjelovar-Bilogora, Požega-Slavonia, Osijek-Baranja, Virovitica-Podravina and Varaždin counties.
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I’m Croatian, and the very first problem of Croatia’s drivers is that they do not respect road rules and they slalom around the barriers, and failures of electronic level crossing systems are very usual. Consequently, the number of accidents is higher on protected level crossings than on unprotected ones (if a level crossing is not protected with any bells, barriers or lights the drivers know that they have to look left and right before crossing the railroad).