One week after a truck tries to outrun a train and fails, the family of the teen killed is struggling to cope with their grief. But they say a push to keep this kind of accident from happening again is helping them with the loss.

Bernard Hotaling says his son William planned a night out with friends playing baseball. That ended tragically, Hotaling says, in a way he never imagined. "It never dawned on me that could've been William." The 16 year old was riding in a pick-up truck with his 20 year old friend John Allison behind the wheel. William's father says he taught his son to follow traffic laws, but he says the boys ignored a railroad crossing sign to beat an oncoming train. "How many times a kids tried to do that? How many times a parents done that. But this time it was an unlucky chance he took," Hotaling says.

Since that preventable accident, the Texas Department of Public Safety has been working with a local train company to emphasize the important of obeying railway crossing laws. "Within the 3 to 3 1/2 hour period, there were over 130 violations where motorists were ticketed or warned," says Trooper John Sampa.

It is enforcement Hotaling applauds. He says his son's death should not be in vain. Instead, he hopes it is a reminder to the hundreds of teens and even adults who showed up at his funeral. Hotaling says the time you try to save beating a train could cost you the rest of your life.

As for the family of the driver, Hotaling says he holds no grudge. He says while the driver recovered in the hospital, knowing his close friend was dead, the driver's family actually planned and attended William's funeral.