I'm sorry - where in any of the items cited did the text say the driver was responsible? In every case it was the car that did the deed.
The original post made the following cite "after a car tried to beat a freight train"
1926 "when the automobile in which she was riding collided with Coast Line train No. 76"
1930 "a sedan when it ploughed into a fog-obscured southbound Ann Arbor freight train"
1936 " their car was traveling about 50 miles an hour when it hit the train"
1941 "the auto paused momentarily as it approached the crossing, then drove on the tracks directly in front of the locomotive"
1956 "when their car hit an express train at nearby Attica Junction"
I'm particularly fond of the homicidal/suicidal 1941 car - imagine - it paused momentarily and then decided to place itself and its passengers directly in front of an oncoming train - it makes Christine look like a comedy car.
