Thirty Ninth Annual Report Of The Railroad Commissioners Of The State Of New Hampshire 1883 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of New Hampshire, 1883 But few accidents involving injury to persons or loss of life have occurred during the year on the lines of roads operated in our state, and none of them were chargeable to the management or carelessness of the roads. Nevertheless we would respect fully call your attention to one source of danger upon which we deem further legislation is necessary. In many places, where the highways cross the railroads at grade, trees and bushes are so dense that persons travelling upon the highway are unable to observe approaching trains until within dangerous proximity. We would recommend that the railroads should have author ity, and be required to remove such obstructions for a distance of at least two hundred feet from all such crossings. Life is more valuable than any pecuniary consideration, and should have all the protection that prudent foresight can possibly throw around it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.