{"id":181455,"date":"2019-10-02T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=181455"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:13:12","slug":"trooper-on-a-train-oct-3-looking-for-crossing-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=181455","title":{"rendered":"Trooper on a Train, Oct 3, looking for crossing violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47224\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/train1stAveJamestown-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/train1stAveJamestown-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/train1stAveJamestown-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/train1stAveJamestown.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bismarck (NDHP)\u00a0 The North Dakota Highway Patrol is participating in Trooper on a Train, Thursday, Oct. 3. A trooper will be present on an eastbound train beginning in Mandan. The trooper will <strong>watch for railroad grade crossing violations<\/strong> as the train travels east from Mandan.<br \/>\nDuring a \u201cTrooper on a Train\u201d event, one trooper rides in the lead locomotive of the train<br \/>\nas a spotter. This trooper observes traffic approaching the highway-rail grade crossings as the<br \/>\ntrain proceeds down the tracks. Other troopers pace the train or are parked at specific locations along the tracks. When a motorist or pedestrian is observed violating the law, the trooper on the train radios one of the other troopers, who stop the motorist or pedestrian and explains the violation and issues a citation.<br \/>\nThe purpose of this event is to increase public awareness of the potential dangers that exist at highway-railroad grade crossings by enforcing the traffic laws that pertain to these intersections. This event also allows troopers to see traffic from the train crew\u2019s perspective.<br \/>\nThe consequences for a driver failing to stop for an automatic railroad crossing signal, flagger, or train, or driving around a crossing gate or barrier results in a $50 fine and three points assessed to the license of the driver.<br \/>\nThe NDHP\u2019s \u2018Trooper on a Train\u2019 is one of many activities used to enhance public safety<br \/>\nand to spread awareness of related traffic laws to include the dangers of failing to stop for<br \/>\noncoming trains or driving around railroad gates or barriers. DON\u2019T RACE THE TRAIN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck (NDHP)\u00a0 The North Dakota Highway Patrol is participating in Trooper on a Train, Thursday, Oct. 3. A trooper will be present on an eastbound train beginning in Mandan. The trooper will watch for railroad grade crossing violations as the train travels east from Mandan. During a \u201cTrooper on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181456,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181455\/revisions\/181456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}