§ 54-280. Certain vehicles must stop at railroad grade crossings.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided in this section, the driver of any motor vehicle carrying more than six (6) passengers for hire, or of any school bus carrying any schoolchild, or of any vehicle carrying explosives or hazardous materials as a cargo or part of a cargo, or of any vehicle designed to carry flammable liquids, whether empty or loaded, such hazardous materials or flammable liquids to be described in regulations issued by the state department of highways, before crossing at grade any tracks of a railroad, shall stop such vehicle within fifty (50) feet but not less than fifteen (15) feet from the nearest rail of such railroad and while so stopped shall listen and look in both directions along such track for any approaching train and for signals indicating the approach of a train and shall not proceed until the driver can do so safely. After stopping as required in this section and upon proceeding when it is safe to do so, the driver of any such vehicle shall cross only in such gear of the vehicle that there will be no necessity for changing gears while traversing such crossing, and the driver shall not manually shift gears while crossing the tracks.

(b)

No stop need be made at any such crossing where a police officer, a crossing watchman, or a traffic-control signal directs traffic to proceed or indicates the absence of an approaching train; provided that the driver of a vehicle shall at all times proceed with caution while traversing a railroad crossing irrespective of traffic-control signal indications.

(Code 1950, § 516.3)

State law reference

Similar provisions, C.R.S. 1973, 42-4-608.