Just the facts: all of the injuries and fatalities at these ten crossings have been to pedestrians (with one caveat, below). However, quiet zone rules require the crossings to be upgraded to prevent the never-has-happened-here car/train collision. Pedestrian safety is not considered, although their deaths do count towards what must be done in their formulas.

One of the deaths involved a person on a bike. However, because of the poor design of the Hilyard crossing, he was in fact legally a pedestrian as he was crossing on a sidewalk. As noted above, there are no required safety features for pedestrians. In this case, he could not possibly see the train and likely could not see the barriers and lights since they were quite a distance and at an angle that would make them tough to see. He did have ear-buds in place, but it is unknown whether or not he would have heard the bells and horn without them. Besides, many people are deaf, so crossings need to be designed with that in mind.