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Sioux Falls Police Man Trains To Catch Traffic Violators

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls police have been riding the rails to catch drivers who ignore railroad crossing stop signals.

Police spokesman Sam Clemens tells the Argus Leader ( ) that it was done after complaints from BNSF. The railroad told police were too many near-misses with vehicles crossing the tracks in front of trains.

Clemens says officers wrote 44 citations Wednesday for failure to stop at a railroad crossing. He says when there are lights flashing at the crossing vehicles must come to a stop.

Clemens says the offenders were either speeding up to beat the train or slowing down but not stopping.

A similar operation was set up last year, and police wrote 18 citations.

Clemens says police plan to conduct similar railroad crossing checks later this summer.

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Information from: Argus Leader,

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