00:00This is a level crossing where my son and four of his friends were killed, which rode
00:07in on one weekend in 2001.
00:12It's a notorious level crossing, it's always been a notorious level crossing, had the highest
00:18accident rate of any level crossing in New South Wales.
00:22It's the only piece of rail and road where a train can go over a level crossing at 160
00:31kilometres an hour across a major highway.
00:33That's an open level crossing with no boom gates.
00:36The biggest belief that a crossing like this was allowed to sit here for decades, now it's
00:41suddenly being double operated.
00:44The RTA had many plans in action to replace the crossing with an overbridge, but because
00:51of the fact that even though it had the worst accident rate of any crossing in New South
00:56Wales, nobody had ever been killed here.
00:58That was the reasoning behind their refusal to do anything with the crossing.
01:06Fast forward to 2001, five fine young men lost their lives here by a sudden amount of
01:17fire.
01:18Five families have been bereaved ever since because of the loss of their, in most cases,
01:26their only sons.
01:29It's been 23 years of anger.
01:33I'm sick of being angry, I want something done about level crossings.
01:38I want the crossings fixed, I want the trains lit up.
01:42It's as simple as that.
01:43I'm tired of being angry, just do something.
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