Koggala bus-train crash: signals were flashing — is this on the driver alone?

On October 25, a bus carrying schoolchildren back from a museum trip in Koggala crossed the railway line at Habaraduwa despite the warning signals being active, and was hit by a train. Around ten children were hurt, one needed emergency surgery, and police arrested the bus driver and the conductor the same day. Some say this is squarely on the driver — a flashing signal means stop, full stop, and no deadline or impatient parent justifies pushing a bus full of kids across live tracks. Others point out that plenty of Sri Lankan crossings still rely on hand-operated gates or signals that lag or get ignored daily by everyone, so one driver taking the fall doesn't fix a system people routinely gamble with. If you cross unmanned or semi-manned crossings often, do you actually trust the signal, or do you look both ways regardless? And should school trip operators be held to a higher standard than regular bus routes? සංඥා දැල්වී තිබියදීත් රේල් පාර හරහා ගියේ ඇයි — ඔබේ දෛනික අත්දැකීම කියන්න.