context: P 34. To fall under the specific, individual hazard exception, the hazard must, as the name of the exception indicates, be a specific rather than a general danger. In addition, the specific danger must pose the risk of an imminent collision.
citation_a.signal: no signal
citation_a.parenthetical: agreeing with courts that "have narrowly construed 'specific, individual hazard' as an 'avoidance of an imminent collision with a specific person or object'"
citation_a.sentence: Hightower, 70 P.3d at 847 n.21 (citation omitted) (agreeing with courts that "have narrowly construed 'specific, individual hazard' as an 'avoidance of an imminent collision with a specific person or object'"). In keeping with the specificity requirement, a specific, individual hazard is something that is unique and could not have been taken into account by the Secretary when promulgating uniform, national standards.
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 844 F. Supp. 1152, 1152-53
citation_b.parenthetical: determining that a grade crossing without an automatic gate or flashing lights in an area of heavy traffic was not a specific, individual hazard in part because the Secretary took those conditions into consideration
citation_b.sentence: See Myers, 52 P.3d at 1027; Armstrong, 844 F. Supp. at 1152-53 (determining that a grade crossing without an automatic gate or flashing lights in an area of heavy traffic was not a specific, individual hazard in part because the Secretary took those conditions into consideration).