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Article: NSW: $300 fine for drivers blocking level crossing
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2002
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NSW: $300 fine for drivers blocking level crossing
By Linda Silmalis
SYDNEY, Nov 13 AAP - Drivers caught blocking or queuing on a level
crossing would face
a $300 fine under new road safety regulations to be introduced in
NSW.
Fines for entering a level crossing when a warning device was operating
would also
rise from $74 to $209 under the new measures which take effect on
January 1.
Transport Minister Carl Scully, who unveiled the new regulations
in parliament, said
the moves were in response to a series of level crossing incidents.
Four people died at a level crossing in South Australia last month
when The Ghan passenger
train, a bus and a car ...