The question is being asked as to whether Indiana’s laws regarding school buses and railroad crossings should change.
One state lawmaker doesn’t think so. State Senator Randy Head from Marshall County believes the current law, designed to protect buses and certain trucks from being hit by trains, needs to stay as it is.
Some have speculated that a busy highway with 60 mile-per-hour traffic, such as US-31, shouldn’t require such vehicles to come to a complete stop.
The school bus involved in the fatal crash Wednesday morning was stopped at the railroad tracks, per state law, when it was hit from behind on a highway with high-speed traffic.
