Wis JI-Civil 1337.5

A safety statute requires that a pedestrian may not enter or cross a railroad crossing:

[Select the appropriate following paragraph.]

(a) While any traffic officer or railroad employee signals to stop;

(b) While any warning device signals to stop, except that, if the pedestrian, after

stopping and investigating, finds that no railroad train or railroad track

equipment is approaching, the pedestrian may proceed.

(c) If any crossbuck sign is maintained at the crossing, while a railroad train or

railroad track equipment occupies the crossing or approaches so closely to the

closing as to be a hazard of collision.

[The statute also provides that a pedestrian may not cross through, around, or under

any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad crossing, while the gate or barrier is closed or is

being opened or closed.] [The statute also provides that a pedestrian may not cross through or

around or climb over or under a railroad train or railroad track equipment while the railroad

train or railroad track equipment occupies a railroad crossing.]