Yes, I just heard this morning that the CN workers were still on the scene when the accident occurred. So it was traumatic all around. I live fairly close to the crossing and it's pretty tricky in the westbound direction. There's a four-way stop just west of the tracks and only room for two to three cars on the west side of the crossing. Cars often back up on the crossing. I try to stay on the east side of the crossing until there's enough room to get on the other side, but every once in a while I find myself on the CN main when I misjudge how quickly vehicles are getting through. ONe of the articles on the accident stated that the woman was stopped on the tracks, so even if the gates were operating properly, she may have still been in danger. The crossing is the main way students from Governors State University access I-57, so it can be pretty busy at times. Just north of the crossing is the Metra Electric University Park station and storage yard, so there's also commuter traffic using the crossing, although there's parking on both sides of the tracks. All in all, a very tragic situation for the victim, the CN signal crew and the Amtrak engineer, who was running under the impression that the gates were in operating condition.
