(A) The driver of any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire, or of any bus, or of any vehicle required to be placarded under 49 C.F.R. part 172 carrying explosive substances, flammable liquids or hazardous materials as a cargo or part of a cargo, or of any vehicle owned by an employer which, in carrying on such employer’s business or in carrying employees to and from work, is carrying more than six employees of such employer, before crossing at grade any track or tracks of a railroad, shall stop such vehicle within 50 feet but not less than 15 feet from the nearest rail of such railroad and while so stopped shall listen and look in both directions along such track for any approaching train, and for signals indicating the approach of a train, except as hereinafter provided, and shall not proceed until he or she can do so safely. After stopping as required herein and upon proceeding when it is safe to do so, the driver of any such vehicle shall cross only in such gear of the vehicle that there will be no necessity for changing gears while traversing such crossing and the driver shall not shift gears while crossing the track or tracks.
(B) No stop need be made at any such crossing where a police officer or a traffic control signal directs traffic to proceed.
(W. Va. Code 17C-12-3) (Prior Code, § 343.03)