Photo of the steering wheel of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_M-Class#Third_generation_(W166;_2011%E2%80%93present)" class="extiw" title="w:Mercedes-Benz M-Class">2011 Mercedes-Benz ML350</a> with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/shifter" class="extiw" title="w:shifter">shifter</a> highlighted and insetted, taken by staff of the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board" class="extiw" title="w:National Transportation Safety Board">National Transportation Safety Board</a> for its investigation of the 2015 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla_train_crash" class="extiw" title="w:Valhalla train crash">Valhalla train crash</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westchester_County,_New_York" class="extiw" title="w:Westchester County, New York">Westchester County, New York</a>. It had been theorized that the driver of a similar vehicle had gotten confused about the shifter's operation, resulting in her driving forward into the path of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-North_Railroad" class="extiw" title="w:Metro-North Railroad">Metro-North</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Line_(Metro-North)" class="extiw" title="w:Harlem Line (Metro-North)">Harlem Line</a> train at a grade crossing, rather than reversing out of the way.
NTSB staff
<i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RAR1701.pdf">"Highway-Railroad Grade Crossing Collision, Commerce Street, Valhalla, New York; February 3, 2015</a></i>, p. 10