Bromley boy
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Anyone who deliberately stops their car in front of a train is clearly not thinking straight. I would guess that there are laws in place to deal with this sort of thing and incidents such as the Germanwings one (if it had been possible to stop it) without the person just getting a slap on the wrist.
The laws would be manslaughter or murder charges, for deliberate acts such as parking a car on a level crossing, if the perpetrator somehow managed to survive but others were killed. GermanWings is a good example. The pilot intended to commit suicide but he also fully intended to murder everyone else on the aircraft.
It's perfectly possible to "not be thinking straight", in the sense of being suicidal, but still be perfectly rational for criminal law purposes. Insanity/diminished responsibility are possible defences but are quite difficult to establish.
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