retreat. joining me now is our own tom costello covering transportation for us. tom, give us the basics here. human error, technical error, what do they think happened, what have we been able to recreate. first of all, federal investigators are on the scene from the federal railroad investigation and amtrak has their investigators on the scene. witnesses sate crossing guards, the arms that come down and the fight lites were functioning. and so you ve got to now wonder why was it this trash truck was on the tracks. because the train always has the right-of-way. there is some initial reporting from the scene from witnesses who were suggesting that this trash truck may have been trying to beat the train. and as we know, boy, that is a deadly mistake. we ve seen it time and time and time again. i mean, we have 260 people dying every year in motor vehicle crashes with trains and we have