Doris J. Sturdevant, Administratrix of the Estate of Clyde D. Sturdevant v. Erie Lackawanna Railroad Company

*1215OPINION OF THE COURT

VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in this diversity action appeals from a jury verdict in favor of the defendant. Clyde D. Sturdevant (“Sturdevant”) died from injuries sustained in a railroad grade crossing accident on May 2, 1968, when his car, traveling north on Route 957, collided with an eastbound train of the defendant at one of two tracks at a crossing near Lottsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania. At the time of the accident, a driver approaching this crossing from the south on Route 957 would first pass a cross-buck warning sign on the right side of the road…