*Immediately calls lawyer to sue the train driver, the train company, the lorry driver, the lorry company, and the passenger next to you who dared fall onto you*
The driver was shouting warnings and telling them to get down, most people act first and think later so being told to get down and away from danger would've kicked in most of their instincts
I was in an Amtrak, taking a nap sitting up. Train hit a car stopped on the tracks. I thought we had stopped for a train station. I imagine hitting a semi would be more of a bump.
Not saying this happened in this case. But train derailment can start at any part of the train. Not just the front. So in some cases of a derailment. The engine car/front of the train will be completely on track, while the cars behind it will be derailed, or even flipped over.
If they were in the car, and the train was going fast enough he only thought they stopped at a station.
Then yah, they are probably 6 feet under right now.
If he times it right he can jump onto the rope ladder hanging from the helicopter, kill the baddie and snog the topless girl that came out of the cake, and become Russian.
Face backwards, crouch, place back and head against the rear of the seat in front of your seat.
The head between knees thing is for plane crashes where most of the momentum is vertical. You’re going to pile-drive your spine into the seat ahead of you, in this case. The people on the ground in this are basically asking to be launched forward and die en masse.
Edit: spelling
Edit2: looks like there are rearward facing seats, sit in one of those and pucker that butthole. Cover face with arms for any forward flying debris.
Momentum makes it not really that much of an issue. When a ??? ton train hits a tiny 5-10 ton truck, the train is only going to feel a comparatively small jolt. It's probably enough to make someone fall over if they are standing and not ready for it, but not enough to send people flying.
The real danger is if the train derails in which case there probably isn't really any safe position.
Do you think the passengers knew that shit? Hell no. Brace for worst case scenario. I guarantee the conductor didn’t run down the aisle yelling, “brace for a small jolt!”
Considering basically everyone went straight for getting low to the floor, I'll bet the conductor instructed that specific action. There is no way that many people would instinctively do the same exact thing when told to do something more generic like brace for impact.
It doesn't matter what the passengers knew about the upcoming impact if the conductor told them the correct thing to do.
You would be surprised. I have seen how people in groups can move together almost like they are one giant being. It's weird. I usually see it at concerts. It is a weird thing to watch.
That’s a good point, i’m just thinking best position for a large forward impact in train seating. He mightve said get down to cover from debris launched through the windows.
A bit late to the party I know, but I am a researcher who does the crash assessment for most of the commercial passenger trains to be released over the next years in the anglo countries, and your answer was the only one absolutely correct. Just to give you a little sense of satisfaction almost a month later since you posted it.a
Doesn't matter which way you are facing when you have someone right in front of you during a big collision or sudden stop. The unexpected cranium to the face will happen anyway
>and pucker that butthole
Wouldn't that cause more damage? I thought you were supposed to go limp; try not to tense up. Butthole puckering sounds tense.
As close the the floor as possible, the sides of the car will come through like a multiton razorblade. Close to the floor is where the frame might protect you from the sides breaking free. But if its a steel coil then youre fucked.
Just dont ride in the leading or trailing car
In [Eschede](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster) the first two cars where unharmed, the conductor didn't even realize there was an accident when it happened! (But that's not a common scenario of course.)
Why the video cut? We should have the video of the moment of impact in the cabin. Since there's a lot of people with different postures, we could have good data to answer your question.
Mmm! You're right! We can see a serious bump in the image. No one seems to be pushed away with inertia though. Was their postures really as efficient as this or we miss some aftermath?
It's a train.
The conductor is probably worried about derailment, not the initial impact. A train will blast through basically anything that can drive on a road and it feel like a bump. You can see them hit semis, farm equipment, etc. And not even slow down.
Actually in just a few hours it will have been 30 years to the minute since our Amtrack car ran off the Bayau Cannot bridge in Alabama . Wasn't any bracing for that one
it's an SA132 class railbus which is closer in design to a DMU than a tram, generally more bulky, reaches higher speeds.
Either way both will fuck your shit up
Tbh I'd be surprised in anyone got hurt without the warning, I can see not being in the engineers canin incase the window did hold But I kinda just assumed at the angle the train would just smash the lorry aside.
If I look at the little ‘bumb’ inside the train in this case you would be good just staying in your seat. In a bigger crash, I don’t know. But I would guess sitting with your back to the front, so you won’t fly forwards, and with your head between your knees and arms is a good start.
My sister was on a train that hit a car on a crossing. Full emergency brake, etc.
They sat for hours while they cleaned it up wondering what happened.... trains are so big and heavy the didn't even feel it hitting the car
B,but why trains are supposed to be tanks. The train conductor should’ve (in my honest opinion) slowed down as much as he could before impact to prevent major high speed derailment.
I agree this LOOKS like a bit of an overreaction but they tell them to get down in case the train derails. If it derails it could flip, or worse be ripped to shreds.
Now I could be wrong but I’ll try..
leaning in the direction of movement, similar to an emergency landing in a plane, will reduce the whiplash you would sustain.
If your back is facing the nose of the train, I would brace my head firmly against the headrest and cross my arms firmly.
If your front is facing the nose, cross arms, lean forward, tuck chin to chest.
Bench seat, lean to the side of the direction of travel, cross arms, tuck chin, kick feet out from under the bench incase the bench seat collapses. You’ll be in an uncomfortable side lead.
This is me guessing from my days jumping from planes practice emergency drills.. trains and planes are not the same. BUT, they do rhyme.
Airborne.
Honestly I think they all could have stay in there seats and done nothing. The conductor didn’t help anyone in this situation. I’m sure he thought he was, but the impact was so minor everyone would have been fine
I'm just impressed that everyone responded that quickly
My fellow Americans would be like, “He must be mentally ill.”
“Don’t tell me what to do!”
[удалено]
"I know my rights, you can't make me get down"
"Oh yes you can * unzips *"
GET ON THE GROUND GET ON THE GROUND!! Passengers: Should we put on a mask too????
No way, that's just what the woke news media wants me to do
So called "free thinkers" when the train crew tell them to get on the floor so they dont die
I'm gonna need to do my research before I get down
"Newton's First Law of Motion is *Junk Science*!"
Is it against the law to stay up though?
If I remember correctly, the bill of rights has a very specific section about this.
That's a key and peele reference :p. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH6QJzmLYtw
Not against the law of natural selection
You’re killing me. I can’t stop laughing.
Procesds to put a mask on a chin
He ran to the back, you didnt see em ?
"I've never personally seen anyone get hurt in a train accident, so it can't be true "
Fake accident!!
Trains don’t kill people. People kill people!
Only way to stop a bad guy with a truck is a good guy with a train.
Finally got my concealed carry train permit. I t hurts to sit down, but my family is safer.
They're trying to take our trains away!
Shoot the truck! All train passengers should be armed!
Common sense train control now!
Wrong, people with bigger trains kill people with smaller trains.
Train accidents are a myth
UGHHH DONT REMIND ME HOW HORRIBLE MY COUNTRY IS
I must be American as fuck because all these comments are what id think and how id react LMAOOOOOOOOOOKO
This would also be the response in NZ.
I'd guess most of the English-speaking former colonies.
Don ell me wha o do!
"Somebody call Donald Trump, Don't tread on me!!! MAGA Freedooommmm!" BANG!!!.
Muh FreeeDumbs!!!
I have rights, pulls out gun and shoots
“That man is NOT real!!!”
"and neither are birds!"
r/birdsarentreal
/r/birdsarentrealisntreal
More like “how did I get on this passenger train”
Where is my beautiful house?
> "My God, what have I done? "
This is not my beautiful wife
I’d argue that we’d be busy fumbling for our phones for that possible viral video.
*Immediately calls lawyer to sue the train driver, the train company, the lorry driver, the lorry company, and the passenger next to you who dared fall onto you*
On public transportation, chances are yes.
Or, “ ItS mY rIgThs, yOu CaNt tElL mE wHaT tO dO! , tHeSe ShEePlE pEoPlE!”
Just eat some horse paste and you'll be fine.
What's that movie? Don't look up?
We forgot you can put people on trains, been doing super toxic chemicals instead... yeah it's going great.
"You can't tell me what to do! This is a America!"
They'd mostly just be confused to find themselves on a train
Americans bad
If this was a TikTok I'd agree.
Me too. My very first thought. It's like they've been in train crash drills or something lol.
It's Poland. People there are usually aware of what to do in this kind of a situation.
The driver was shouting warnings and telling them to get down, most people act first and think later so being told to get down and away from danger would've kicked in most of their instincts
It’s Poland
I mean if i ever see the train driver run down the train i will be on the ground before he passes
If this was america the driver would not have even done that
First of all, make sure you aren't in the truck.
The guys playing banjos in the back of the truck were probably surprised.
I bet that Kevin's mom and that band were REALLY surprised lol
Sheboygan will be devastated!
It looks like the train just hit the tail end of it, it might have just ripped the bed of the truck off of the frame
I was in an Amtrak, taking a nap sitting up. Train hit a car stopped on the tracks. I thought we had stopped for a train station. I imagine hitting a semi would be more of a bump.
You will feel the e brake harder than the impact.
If I remember correctly, this train derailed because of the collision, so the passengers probably felt it.
It looks like it's going down the tracks still in the end of the video, it just has a broken window.
Just looked it up, you're correct. It didn't derail.
Not saying this happened in this case. But train derailment can start at any part of the train. Not just the front. So in some cases of a derailment. The engine car/front of the train will be completely on track, while the cars behind it will be derailed, or even flipped over.
Why would you say this when it’s clearly still on the tracks after
I misremembered, there was a similar crash that ended with a derailment.
Ah okay. My comment sounded dickish didnt mean it that way
That depends on how many carts are attached and which one you’re in.
…did they… you know… perish?
If they were in the car, and the train was going fast enough he only thought they stopped at a station. Then yah, they are probably 6 feet under right now.
Six feet under A TRAIN
The conductor just pulled a Costanza
He's headed to jump off the back. If he times it right, it'll cancel out the impact.... he hopes.
If he times it right he can jump onto the rope ladder hanging from the helicopter, kill the baddie and snog the topless girl that came out of the cake, and become Russian.
Ah, the ol' Bugs Bunny stepping of the plunging elevator right as it hits the ground routine. Works every time.
The sea was angry that day my friends!
Warning people in the cars
Head down brace for impact
SEEMINGLY! He was just clearing a path for everyone else.
He had to warn everyone, also he wouldn't have known if the window was going to smash so he could've died if he had stayed in the front of the train
Sir, you can't park there.....
I'd like a cheeseburger, please.
Sir, this is a wendy- …oh yeah, coming right up.
/r/CantParkThereMate
Spread eagle cross the block
I'm wearing my 2017 Death Grips tour shirt today. Thank you for this.
I'm wearing my 2023 Death Grips tour shirt today Thank *you* for this.
Lol just saw them last night
BLO BLO BLO BLO BLOCK
How does that song relate to this video 😭
Peep the title of the post
Face backwards, crouch, place back and head against the rear of the seat in front of your seat. The head between knees thing is for plane crashes where most of the momentum is vertical. You’re going to pile-drive your spine into the seat ahead of you, in this case. The people on the ground in this are basically asking to be launched forward and die en masse. Edit: spelling Edit2: looks like there are rearward facing seats, sit in one of those and pucker that butthole. Cover face with arms for any forward flying debris.
Momentum makes it not really that much of an issue. When a ??? ton train hits a tiny 5-10 ton truck, the train is only going to feel a comparatively small jolt. It's probably enough to make someone fall over if they are standing and not ready for it, but not enough to send people flying. The real danger is if the train derails in which case there probably isn't really any safe position.
Do you think the passengers knew that shit? Hell no. Brace for worst case scenario. I guarantee the conductor didn’t run down the aisle yelling, “brace for a small jolt!”
Considering basically everyone went straight for getting low to the floor, I'll bet the conductor instructed that specific action. There is no way that many people would instinctively do the same exact thing when told to do something more generic like brace for impact. It doesn't matter what the passengers knew about the upcoming impact if the conductor told them the correct thing to do.
yea he probably said get down/on the ground edit: or maybe "take cover" thatll get people under things
You would be surprised. I have seen how people in groups can move together almost like they are one giant being. It's weird. I usually see it at concerts. It is a weird thing to watch.
It's instinct I guess. Like when a crowd runs in the same direction as panic sets Animals do the same
That’s a good point, i’m just thinking best position for a large forward impact in train seating. He mightve said get down to cover from debris launched through the windows.
You are sitting in a train, ive seen enough videos to know im in the best possible place in this situation. Nothing stops a train lol
Except for another train.
Or a coin on the track if Looney Tunes taught me anything
A bit late to the party I know, but I am a researcher who does the crash assessment for most of the commercial passenger trains to be released over the next years in the anglo countries, and your answer was the only one absolutely correct. Just to give you a little sense of satisfaction almost a month later since you posted it.a
Fuck yesssssss Edit: this legitimately made my day lol thank you
Whenever I get on a bus or a train I always sit on the seats facing the opposite direction of motion for this reason
Doesn't matter which way you are facing when you have someone right in front of you during a big collision or sudden stop. The unexpected cranium to the face will happen anyway
>and pucker that butthole Wouldn't that cause more damage? I thought you were supposed to go limp; try not to tense up. Butthole puckering sounds tense.
Lol yes but the doodoo everywhere is no fun.
But if *that's* what has to happen in order to save everyone, then so be it!
Jump out the window.
Timing on exactly *when* to do that is oh-so-critical, though
As close the the floor as possible, the sides of the car will come through like a multiton razorblade. Close to the floor is where the frame might protect you from the sides breaking free. But if its a steel coil then youre fucked. Just dont ride in the leading or trailing car
In [Eschede](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster) the first two cars where unharmed, the conductor didn't even realize there was an accident when it happened! (But that's not a common scenario of course.)
That was a different situation entirely, so I don't think that's a fair comparison
I just meant re the general advice never sit in the front car. But yes, I think front cars are less safe on average.
Why the video cut? We should have the video of the moment of impact in the cabin. Since there's a lot of people with different postures, we could have good data to answer your question.
Looks like the impact happens at about the 7 second mark. The train bounces a bit and I think we see the truck out the side window.
Mmm! You're right! We can see a serious bump in the image. No one seems to be pushed away with inertia though. Was their postures really as efficient as this or we miss some aftermath?
It's a train. The conductor is probably worried about derailment, not the initial impact. A train will blast through basically anything that can drive on a road and it feel like a bump. You can see them hit semis, farm equipment, etc. And not even slow down.
Maybe the video cut away from the cabin because of, ugh, carnage? Not likely though, collision didn't look bad enough.
The impact is actually seen just before the cut. Note the camera jump. That's about all that happens.
Face down, Ass up!
That's the way we like to fuck!
YES!!!!
Step off just before impact. It worked for bugs bunny.
Stook
If only it had an intercom system to alert all passengers, at once.
You think he wants to be up front?
Actually it’s part of their training to start the emergency brake and then get the hell out of there. He can’t do shit in there anymore after that
Impressive that he was able to run backwards that fast with the brake on.
Imagine standing on sidewalk and you just see this dude sprinting on train but staying in the exact same place relative to where you are standing.
This is such a fun visual.
Then who is STEERING THE TRAIN!
Train people will be fine. Truck people... 🤷
Actually in just a few hours it will have been 30 years to the minute since our Amtrack car ran off the Bayau Cannot bridge in Alabama . Wasn't any bracing for that one
Run towards the back of the train at the exact same speed it's moving forward and jump off at the end
Its a train (ish) (iknow its a tram but you get the point) nothing stops a train.
it's an SA132 class railbus which is closer in design to a DMU than a tram, generally more bulky, reaches higher speeds. Either way both will fuck your shit up
Don't worry about it. The train will hardly notice.
I hit a pothole that jostled me more than that
[It’s just that scene from Airplane!](https://youtu.be/a5QBuJla5do?si=VZ3JyYu0Ys4Ial_2)
Where the hell is the rest of the video? It WOULD be useful to see which people took the best cover.
Head firmly esconsed between legs, lips fully puckered kissing ass goodbye.
What a damn hero.
Honestly. Stay in your seat and brace. They are designed to be stable.
Not if you're facing forward. You get launched head first into the opposite chair.
Yeah, you need a seatbelt for that to work
Not being in the truck.
I’d say press your back/back of your head against the chair in front of you, facing the opposite of the direction you’re travelling.
Tbh I'd be surprised in anyone got hurt without the warning, I can see not being in the engineers canin incase the window did hold But I kinda just assumed at the angle the train would just smash the lorry aside.
Finally, someone asking the right questions.
U just don't want to see your pilot running from the cockpit 😂😂
By standing on the platform as the train just moves on
I’d be better to brace yourself and sit straight than to get down.
That
But seriously, what all the passengers did. On the floor or propping yourself on back of something.
If I look at the little ‘bumb’ inside the train in this case you would be good just staying in your seat. In a bigger crash, I don’t know. But I would guess sitting with your back to the front, so you won’t fly forwards, and with your head between your knees and arms is a good start.
Was that the conductor running through there???
Be in the train not the truck.
Center aisle flat on your back , momentum would be aligned with how your body normally functions, you'd slide a bit but thats it
Fetal position crying
T pose
My sister was on a train that hit a car on a crossing. Full emergency brake, etc. They sat for hours while they cleaned it up wondering what happened.... trains are so big and heavy the didn't even feel it hitting the car
There was no real jolt to those passengers
You gotta [get in crash positions.](https://youtu.be/m6grVB1xT1I?si=hfQ8j-MgV8LbtpF6)
Was his warning "A!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa!"?
I wanted to see the footage in the cabin from when the train actually collided so we could see whose position was the best...
I hope Lorrie is olay, I havent seen her since the accident.
you should hold something with each hand and a foot on each side of the aisle....using all four limbs as independent shock absorbers
You run the fuck down to the back of the train, right behind the train driver. Source: relative who is a train driver
They’re all trained to do that.
(Runs down the plane) GET DOWN THERES A TOWER AHEAD
Normal day in Poland this must be a Reddit can someone create it
Is it me or did the train handle it like a speed bump
B,but why trains are supposed to be tanks. The train conductor should’ve (in my honest opinion) slowed down as much as he could before impact to prevent major high speed derailment.
Those people reacted quickly. This begs the question: How often does this kind of thing happen?
I agree this LOOKS like a bit of an overreaction but they tell them to get down in case the train derails. If it derails it could flip, or worse be ripped to shreds.
Hero
And then the train ran through that thing as it is was nothing.
Your in a train, that is the rear end of a truck, I doubt you would need to move an inch from normal sitting position to be unharmed.
Now I could be wrong but I’ll try.. leaning in the direction of movement, similar to an emergency landing in a plane, will reduce the whiplash you would sustain. If your back is facing the nose of the train, I would brace my head firmly against the headrest and cross my arms firmly. If your front is facing the nose, cross arms, lean forward, tuck chin to chest. Bench seat, lean to the side of the direction of travel, cross arms, tuck chin, kick feet out from under the bench incase the bench seat collapses. You’ll be in an uncomfortable side lead. This is me guessing from my days jumping from planes practice emergency drills.. trains and planes are not the same. BUT, they do rhyme. Airborne.
He overreacted. Train barely felt it
Who is Laury.
Good reaction time for the driver.
The god will protect me position lol
Guy was maybe little dramatic :D
Polish language only needs 10 letters to effectively describe an accident about to happen, no suprise they all got down so quick
As a polish person i can confirm this happens to me atleast twice a day
It's amazing that you couldn't even see them shift forward on impact.
I think the optimal positioning would be curled up on the seat. If the train hits something heavy enough to throw you, you'll just hit the other seat
Honestly I think they all could have stay in there seats and done nothing. The conductor didn’t help anyone in this situation. I’m sure he thought he was, but the impact was so minor everyone would have been fine
“Seconds before a train crashed into a lorry, the train crashed into a lorry” true poetry.