Victims of one of Victoria's worst rail tragedies say they still haven't had any answers after a coronial finding failed to lay blame over the 2007 crash that took 11 lives.
Coroner Jane Hendtlass has recommended better warnings to alert drivers approaching level crossings of coming trains.
Eleven people died and another eight were seriously injured when the Swan Hill to Melbourne V/Line passenger train hit a truck driven by Christian Scholl on June 5, 2007.
Mr Scholl was charged with 11 counts of culpable driving over the deaths but acquitted by a jury at trial in 2009.
Ms Hendtlass could not say whether Mr Scholl would have stopped in time if his prime mover had not been fitted with anti-lock brakes, but the harm may have been reduced.
"I am confident that the force of collision would have been reduced and the consequences less severe," she said.
Her recommendations handed down on Monday included that heavy vehicles operators be subject to more regular inspections.
But victims present for the finding said they still had unanswered questions.
Julie McMonnies, who lost husband Geoff and 17-year-old daughter Rose in the crash, said she was unsatisfied.
"There's nothing controversial here," she told reporters.
"I didn't get any satisfaction yet from any investigation that's taken place.
"We haven't had any answers and we've had no one accept responsibility for 11 deaths and injured."
Dorothy Stubbs, whose 13-year-old son Matthew died, says it feels like the crash was only yesterday.
"We don't feel like anything has changed," she said.
"We don't feel like anyone's put their hand up and said `they're to blame'."
She said the victims never wanted the truck driver involved to go to jail, but "maybe a `sorry I did have something to do with it'".
Heather Taverna said not a day goes by when she doesn't think of her mother, 79-year-old Jean Webb, who died in the crash.
"There's never any closure with something like that.
"You just learn to live with it.
"It just becomes part of your everyday life."
Train passenger Adrienne Rowell said there were no answers to why the injured waited so long for medical aid.
"We had people bleeding and we had people dying. They wouldn't let the doctors in because of this so-called emergency thing that you can't come in unless you're wearing a special vest.
"How does that stop people from dying?"
The coroner made 25 recommendations and said many improvements have already been made.
Detective Leading Senior Constable Trevor Collins from the major collision investigation unit said the coroner highlighted the need for agencies to work together better.
"Things could've been done better on the day, we did our best," he said.
"I think communication was the biggest problem and that's been addressed.
"If everybody takes on board what the coroner said today, lessons out of these types of incidents have to be learnt, and have to be acted upon."
