Scott v. Reading Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

Plaintiff filed an action in trespass seeking to recover damages for personal injuries he sustained when a tractor-trailer he was driving ran into defendant’s railroad train. This accident occurred at about 10:30 A.M. on January 24, 1964, in Lancaster County, at a point where highway Route 230 crosses at a grade crossing a single railroad track. Plaintiff had driven over this railroad track many times during the previous five years.

*242Plaintiff was traveling in a westerly direction along Route 230, having started only about five miles from the scene of the…