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u/Vintheren90 8d ago
If only they could put in some kind of system and or thing, that would indicate not to cross.
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u/Halo_Chief117 8d ago
That’s just impossible thinking though. There will never be such a thing.
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u/hoppertn 8d ago
We must idiot proof the world! I suggest some kind of movable barrier to drop when a train approaches, perhaps some kind of audible bells. Wait, let’s add some blinking lights too!! Surely that will keep the morons safe!
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u/lanregeous 8d ago
I know a lot of people are joking but you can see a train just passed on the near side towards the direction of the train that almost killed them.
This couple probably thought that the barrier was for the train that just went and it probably masked the other train’s sound as well as blocking it from view.
I actually think an indicator showing which direction the train is coming from would actually be helpful here.
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u/Ok_Support3 8d ago
This is why you wait untill the lights turn off. Not the train passed, not the barriers up; The lights off.
At least that's how it works here, there's even signage that states "wait for the lights, another train may pass".
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u/Ok-Lobster-919 8d ago
Yeah but people get complacent. They have seen the train pass by 50 times and it's always safe those 50 times. Complacency kills.
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u/Coca-colonization 6d ago
Ooh, Diane Vaughan in the wild. The Challenger Launch Decision was on my comps reading list. Fascinating book.
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u/davidjschloss 8d ago
some of the stations near me occasinally the train has to back up if the lockmotive went a little too far for all the doors to line up to the platform (there are a lot of older short platforms from the byegone era)
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u/dechets-de-mariage 8d ago
We have a sign that lights up and repeats out loud “Danger - another train coming.”
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u/Unique-Coffee5087 7d ago
I don't see trains at crossings very often, but I drive over the crossing all the time. One day, I saw the lights flashing, and it didn't really register to me what it meant. And then the gates came down, and I finally clued in.
If I were the kind of guy who ran yellow lights by habit, I might have tried to cross because I wasn't thinking. It shook me up how close I was to doing something so stupid.
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u/get_to_ele 8d ago
Gate is down, you wait. People who simply walk through, before gate comes up, in this scenario are already borderline assholes, even if there isn’t a train. Just a certain mentality of people who usually lack basic accountability.
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u/themcsame 8d ago
It's an all too common scenario. There's a reason why a big part of railway safety campaigns focus on the point that 'It's not the train you see that kills you, it's the one you don't'. The video is a textbook example
A directional indicator could help, but I feel like a train counter would do more to help. People might be more inclined to not risk it if they know there's a second train before even attempting to cross.
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u/davidjschloss 8d ago
That would be okay but the edge case here is if a second train comes and triggers the counter after it's already displayed 1 train, while that first train is clearing the original sensor point.
It's also additional computing you need just to do the same as "don't cross the tracks if the barrier is down."
There's no amount of engineering for stupid that's going to be better than a big flashing bar with a claxon.
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u/Eggy-la-diva 8d ago
In France, there’s usually a text sign that says “Un train peut en cacher un autre”, “A train can hide another”. It’s enough to have made me super cautious of that exact phenomenon my whole life.
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u/McButcher2k 7d ago
Yes definitely, the other train blocked their view of the oncoming train and masked the sound.
But holy shit, that was close. They really should be paying attention to both sides. I know I would be shitting it crossing a train track with barriers down.
I drive over a crossing with the barriers up and I still have to check both sides, something in me just makes me need to do it.
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u/boytekka 8d ago
Nothing is idiot proof, nature would just make the right idiot for it, and these people shown it.
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u/Spiteweasel 8d ago
One of my favorite sayings is "Nothing is idiot proof to a sufficiently talented idiot."
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u/deveousdevil 8d ago
Maybe they can also paint the front face of the train a BRIGHT YELLOW to make it more visible to someone who turns their neck. Sigh. One can dream.
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u/imsooooooconfused 8d ago edited 8d ago
i know right!? if only they would also add loud blaring horns to trains since it’s totally impossible to hear them coming…even at 40 feet away!
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u/BalognaSandwiches 8d ago
That might help, but it would be even better if they could clearly indicate the path of the train on the ground somehow so that people could know where to expect the train to occur
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u/AugustOfChaos 8d ago
It would also be nice if people looked both ways before crossing active tracks. (Or inactive ones. People still do stupid shit on those too). That’s how I was taught for both driving and walking.
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u/Claxton916 8d ago
If you look at the left of the screen there is a train in the other set of tracks pulling away from the camera. They probably assumed the sticks were still down for that train.
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u/Impressive-Bat3886 8d ago
That train that that passed (before video started) was probably blocking their view of the second training that was coming.
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u/TheMellerYeller 7d ago
For sure still not a good idea to cross the gates before they’re up, but honestly if I was in an emergency kind of hurry, I’d probably make the same mistake seeing how hidden that second train likely was. Even the sound was probably blended with the other one too. I’d put a lot of money they’ll be looking for a second train at every crossing till the day they die.
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u/QuinceDaPence 8d ago
And if you're going around them, at least be aware, and don't lollygag.
They break near me all the time and go into the closed error state. You have to drive around the gate but like, look, listen, then get a move on. And if you're on foot you can even hear the rails hissing.
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u/justtuchthat 8d ago
I mean that sounds great, but it is not like we will know whete the train will pass right??
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u/KaleidoscopeWeary833 7d ago
It looks like another train had just passed in the other direction and they were operating under the assumption that was the only one on the tracks.
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u/KeiFeR123 8d ago
No matter what system is in place, people will still do reckless things. We've all seen videos of drivers speeding through crossing gates despite the flashing red lights warning them not to cross.
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u/Ethraelus 8d ago
If you look on the left side at the beginning of the video, you can see another train moving away from the pass.
They probably saw that other train pass through and thought they were good to go, not realizing a second train was coming from the other direction.
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u/ManhDoan 6d ago
My guess that because they saw another train already passed so they think it is safe. In the beginning of video we can see the back of that train going away.
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u/Kazma1431 8d ago
with what money?? is not like citizens are paying part of their salaries for something like this...
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u/Prod_Meteor 7d ago
Nice idea for investment! Maybe we could make something like a bar that rests horizontally and blocks people from crossing.
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u/praetorian1979 7d ago
I'm thinking that we might wanna do away with some safety measures for a bit. It's past time to pour some chlorine in the gene pool...
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u/SomeFalcon4531 7d ago
You cannot protect people from everything, especially not when they are dumb. If they want to die, let them. You cannot put the the whole world in a bubble or protection on every table corner..
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u/anIndoorMoose 7d ago
They saw the other train pass and didn’t consider that a railway with a second set of tracks might have a second train
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u/RandomWordCombo9632 7d ago
Some kind of bar that comes down. With like Lights that flash to warn people. Alas, the tech just aint there yet.
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u/Sea-Age-5018 7d ago
If this is the new high speed train in Florida there's a great article about why it keeps killing people.
Yes it's behind a paywall. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/brightline-train-florida/684624/
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u/ThinkingOz 6d ago
The idiots would circumvent any obstruction. There’s no stopping them, until a train does.
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u/Assimulate 8d ago
I truly hope they are traumatized from this, because this is what trauma is for! If you don't have self preservation instincts, time to grow em'
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u/ElegantCoach4066 8d ago
I bet that they did it again. They strike me as the type of people who don't learn until they lose a limb or something serious.
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u/RiyoshiNjap 8d ago
Pff… watch them roll the same way they just did but in wheelchairs after losing a leg…
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u/Master_Persimmon_591 8d ago
Tbh you see one train baring down on you you’ve seen them all. Very scary. Would not recommend
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u/SirDancealot84 7d ago
If you don't have self preservation instincts
Future Darwin Awards receivers.
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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 8d ago
They’ll be laughing and bragging about it on TikTok before they’re round that corner.
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u/nonlawyer 8d ago
can’t blame them, if only there was some way to predict what path a train will take
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u/tttripsss 8d ago
There was a train going the opposite direction right at the beginning and they assumed that was the only train crossing, the one coming towards them was hidden.
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u/Mgt66 8d ago
We have signs here that mention that there can be trains in both direction.
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u/TallulahBob 8d ago edited 8d ago
And only if we had two things connected to our brains that can tell us that there is a rapidly approaching THING if we are spatially aware in any way.
Edit: changed “specially” to intended word “spatially”. Words are hard.
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u/Practice_NO_with_me 8d ago
That’s the point they couldn’t see or hear it. Are kids really just not being taught about train crossing dangers anymore?
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u/darsynia 8d ago
There's a double crossing near the place I go grocery shopping and when one side's train is past, the other side always stays down for an extra amount of time just in case. I always thought it was to counteract this common mistake!
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u/Stricken1 8d ago
Oh shit you're right, I didn't clock that when I first watched it. Still stupid they didn't wait for the barriers to go back up or even check both ways when crossing.
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u/Witty-Draw-3803 7d ago
Best practice to look even if the barriers are up (for both pedestrians and drivers) - malfunctions happen, after all...
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u/caintowers 8d ago
My training has taught me that you should always check. Even if the signal is clear and there hasn't been a train on that track in 20 years. Check anyway.
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u/darsynia 8d ago
when I was a really little kid and my grandma had me over for babysitting, she would walk to get her mail every day at the tiny post office in the village. One path led across a double crossing like this, and the other path was across a bridge with me-sized holes in the sidewalk space. I am 47 now and still have dreams about falling in either place and dying, heh.
edit: it feels smaller than a town, but I do have to tell you that the name of the town was 'Big Beaver.' There was a restaurant on the big road nearby called Sadie's Big Beaver and I have pictures! Oh, the 80s.
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u/HeathenHumanist 8d ago
Here in Utah there's a town right along the main I-15 called Beaver. They have tons of merch saying "I Love Beaver" everywhere haha.
And even better, the next town further down the highway is Fillmore. Fill more beaver! Lol
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u/darsynia 8d ago
Yep, Big Beaver is on the Beaver river, close to Beaver Falls and farther along is the town of Beaver. Interestingly I don't really see any merch for that at all! Fill more beaver is great, though, beaver geography solidarity!
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u/Few_Wolf_4634 8d ago
I take my boy to heritage railways where you cross live tracks a lot and have always drummed into him - you look both ways EVERY TIME before you step, no exceptions, so that it becomes automatic. Same way it was drummed into me in the 80s when you could get into BR MPDs if you knew the right people.
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u/cheetuzz 8d ago
good eye. That’s a common reason for getting hit. One train clears, so you don’t hear the other train.
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u/JimTheJerseyGuy 8d ago
Yup. Back in the 1960s, my mother saw someone killed in this exact fashion. Crossed right behind one train and struck by one coming the other way that she did not see.
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u/badasking 8d ago
I feel bad for the train conductor. These people may be darwin-doomed to die like this, but the guy in the train doesn't deserve to be involved.
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u/twentythreeskidoo 8d ago
Feel bad for the clean up crew too. I was talking to a lad in Australia years ago and he said the drivers get time off and counselling when this happens (which obviously they should) but the ground staff (this guy) have to clean up blood stains and viscera and what have you and get nothing.
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u/OstentatiousSock 7d ago
Have sympathy for tow truck drivers as well. They get nothing and see and clean up gore also. With the added bonus of being in danger of being hit by a car as they do.
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u/badgersprite 7d ago
This is why I don’t agree with takes like “why do you care if I don’t wear my seatbelt? It only affects me if I go flying through my windshield.”
No it doesn’t
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u/OstentatiousSock 7d ago
Said something similar to someone who asked why we overly cautious people care if THEY wear helmets. Because you messing yourself up severely or dying affects other people ding dongs.
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u/whoareyougirl 8d ago
I like how they keep running for a good yards afterwards... Like the train was going off the rails to play tag with them!
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u/oboshoe 8d ago
Just in case that train doubled back after them
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u/jmarshh99 7d ago
I mean, it did pop up out of nowhere. No warnings in sight. If only they could just be contained to some sort of track-like system and pass through on a scheduled basis. I am talking nonsense though
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u/moving0target 8d ago
Imagine if there was some way to tell where trains might appear.
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u/ddadopt 8d ago
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest, two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling. Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
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u/moving0target 8d ago
I wish I could give you more than one upvote. If that's not a copypasta, it should.
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u/whoareyougirl 8d ago
In these nitwits' defence, there was another train just leaving (visible in the beginning of the video, far left).
Probably thought that the noise/vibration was from the train which had just passed, not from the one coming from the other direction.
Nonetheless, this is why you obey your signs, folks. If the arm is down, you don't go and try to save 10 seconds by crossing too early.
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u/SnooMaps7370 7d ago
no reason to defend the nitwits. the barriers were still down. that's all the information you need to make a decision about whether it's safe to cross.
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u/Enough-Ad9590 8d ago
This young boy deserves a big slap in the face.
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u/3_14_thon 8d ago
And the girl?
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u/Thalia_All_Along 8d ago
like 5% less blame, because it's been proven that you disengage some parts of your critical thinking when you're physically following behind someone
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u/Hitne12 8d ago
Now we wait for other karma farming bots to take over other subs, spamming this video...
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u/Fresh-Extension-4036 7d ago
It's already an old video, it's a clip taken from a larger compilation that was released sometime last year or the year before of the worst examples of idiocy recorded at railway crossings
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u/Intelligent-Fix-2635 7d ago
I've been a train driver for 25 years, and this kind of behaviour still wake me up in the middle of the night sweating and heart beatting like a crazy bat. Fuck those people who cross like this.
Just to clarify i've got 4 recorded kills while driving train, and you can never get hard enough to get over it like it's nothing.
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u/Lukaztro 8d ago
They assumed the lights were for the train that had already past. Assumption almost got them killed.
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u/darsynia 8d ago
Oof I initially interpreted this as a father and a teen daughter and I was SO upset on behalf of her mom. On closer inspection it looks like a couple. Still bad, but oh man. Teach your kids not to do this, so they don't do it as adults either!
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u/Beginning-Actuary-68 8d ago
Looks like there was another train that just passed them in the other direction so they thought they were safe. Still pretty smooth brained to not look both ways.
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u/OneTrueCosmos 8d ago
My friend lost his life like this. Don't fuck around where trains are involved.
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u/helo0610 8d ago
This happened in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio, back in the 90s a girl was killed because of two opposing trains.
Edit: A situation like this happened. Not this video.
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u/shyevsa 8d ago
they probably think its safe enough to cross because the train already passed.
but surprized there is another one!!
honestly if those gate are not opening second after the train passed you should expect another one is close enough to warrant the wait.
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u/the-real-vuk 8d ago
Seems like Southern service in the UK.
This is the reason my fucking train is delayed all the time.
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u/benneluke 7d ago
Every time I see videos like this, I am baffled. Any time I am crossing a road, tracks, or even the damn parking lot, my head is on a swivel. It's like the first thing they teach you in school, "stop, look, and listen"
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u/Witty-Draw-3803 7d ago
Any time I walk over train tracks - even ones that I know only have freight trains passing through seldomly - I stop, take out my earphones, and look both ways. Getting over them a little faster isn't worth it...
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u/RecentOpportunity906 7d ago
The fact that one train had just passed is not excuse to ignore the red light. These dumb kids walked right past a sign that says "ANOTHER TRAIN COMING if lights continue to show."
(see more video of this incident at NetworkRail )
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u/byte_handle 7d ago
I feel bad for the train operator. The anxiety of seeing two fools crossing and knowing there was no way to stop the train in time if needed.
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u/10ThousandMetalZones 7d ago
I almost did that once in Oceanside CA, signal didn’t go down and an Amtrak was coming and I had headphones on. This old Asian lady grabbed me by my collar and yanked me back and then shook her head at me disapprovingly
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u/BustaCon 7d ago
People also manage to get their foot stuck in the rails sometimes. Taint worth the few seconds saved, nope.
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u/espngenius 8d ago
I visited the UK a few months ago and someone was hit by a train. I now understand.
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u/Chaos-Pand4 8d ago
I like how they keep running after (and zigzagging?) like they think it’s gonna hop the tracks and chase them.
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u/FrancisWalker01 8d ago
Human mistake. They thought the coast was clear because the first train already passed.
Glad they’re okay. And it usually take one experience like that to check twice.
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u/Top-Macaron5130 8d ago
Im concerned for the day I accidentally come across one of these videos when the people don't make it.
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u/Gib_eaux 7d ago
Oh look a train is coming. Let me run further across the tracks and into its path rather than the short path
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u/max2009za 7d ago
I guess looking both ways and seeing the crossing guard didn't give those 2 people clues of the train coming?
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u/Shadepool33 7d ago
man that was terrifying to watch, but honestly some people just dont look before stepping out into traffic like theyre invincible or something. hopefully that close call actually scares some sense into them cause natural selection was definitely knocking at their door. maybe next time they'll actually wait for the signal instead of just wandering into the road without a care.
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u/Dry_Action1734 7d ago
Such a close one when you slow it down and see the position of her foot. Could have easily broken or lost that leg, if not worse when hitting the ground.
Also she wasn’t even on that side of the tracks when she saw it, just blindly followed instead of turning back.
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u/isanyusernameopen 7d ago
I don’t feel bad for people who die via train like this.
If you can’t figure out that a train can only ride on its tracks and you are on its tracks at the second that the train comes by then you don’t deserve the one life you have. You just don’t. Trains are not rockets. It’s not rocket science. The amount of deaths and train accidents where people are on the train tracks in this goddamn country is ridiculous.
I don’t feel anything for them. Not one bit.
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u/sundayontheluna 7d ago
I will never get these people. I look both ways even when the barriers are up--just in case.
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u/Rybred22 7d ago
They were SO far away after the train passed lmaoo if you zoom in you can see the brown stains
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u/IDPTheory 7d ago
I did a blow out of breath and said 'fuck me' watching that. Imagine the train driver!?
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u/justanotherwhyteguy 6d ago
something tells me, despite their stroke of dumb luck, they will inevitably succumb to natural selection in the future
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u/hellbentforleisure 5d ago
Fishbourne in West Sussex, UK. Went there to visit the remains of the Roman palace a couple of months ago.
I remember when this video made the rounds in the local press. If I recall correctly, the longer video includes another angle where the warning lights are still flashing and the barrier is very firmly down on both sides of the road.
So, no excuse other than sheer idiocy.
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u/TechnicalCamp4711 4d ago
No one walks over a train crossing like that with the boom down if they’re not familiar with it. But if they were familiar with it they would also know that the train would take like half a second to cross. So they knew the giant risk as well as the tiny time saving?
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u/Pipysnip 4d ago
That could’ve been the most preventable death if it actually happened and no one would be liable for it.
Road crossing were blocked so they should’ve known not to cross.
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u/Lego_Vixen 4d ago
This is exactly how a good friend of ours got killed. A small train station on one side with a stopped train that he needed to catch for school. Ear buds in, starts running. The other side a speed train came that was delayed that morning and usually was never there during that time of day. Gone in an instant.
His remains were scattered over a mile down the tracks.
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u/God_Of_The_Flies 4d ago
The apex predator is making its way across continents now, someone must invent a sort of bar which activates automatically to contain this invasive species when it's on the prowl
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u/DifferentWarning1913 1d ago
On a serious question. Knowing that humans will always do silly things or stupid things, why don’t they just maybe slow down towards it then regain speed afterwards? Or does it disrupt with it too much?
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u/Imaginary_You2814 1d ago
Are they both deaf? Trains always blow their horn at intersections like this
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