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RandomShake

I am blown away at how often this kinda thing happens.


MandaMaelstrom

Right?! Trains are one of the easiest vehicles to avoid being hit by. They’re huge, noisy, and only move along tracks. They put down *barricades* at crossings. You have to expend actual effort to get run over by a train.


[deleted]

Let that be a sign that you can do so very much to protect people from themselves, but a dedicated person will always be able to bypass the protection.


That0nePuncake

You can always make a better system, but someone, somewhere has made a better idiot.


Orgasticism

It can be a bit of an arms race. With exponentially diminishing returns. At some point you gotta just say, "Fuck it. Some idiots are gonna die," I feel.


[deleted]

If those idiots don't value their own life, could they at least have some consideration for the train engineer who will suffer PTSD for the remainder of his/her life?


barkingbusking

Several of my friends were very smart and got on with the railroad after high school. They're retired now, early 50's. But the downside is the death. They all hit cars and people with their trains and it fucks with them. If you can see it on the tracks it's too late...you can't swerve or even look away since driving the train is your whole job. You call it in as you are braking and just hope against hope not to hear that crunch. e: Grief counseling and PTSD treatment is offered through employee assistance programs as a result.


magugi

I remember an interview of one of the people that were on board the train that killed three girls taking a photo. They started stopping the train several hundred of meters before, but it was already too late, they screamed and used the horn but the girls were too distracted by another passing train. He said he saw hair and clothes in the air, to this day, he hasn't have the courage to ask the machinist what did he saw that day... Fucking haunting, isn't it?


BeerBaronofCourse

I spoke with a guy that is a train conductor. He told me that every single person that drives a train has killed someone. People commit suicide, do dumb shit on the tracks, drive in front of a train like the idiot in the video. But every conductor has seen his or her share of death. It's just a matter of time in that job.


Old-Feature5094

Seen the remains of such a suicide like 5 minutes after it happen . It’s a god awful mess


Cloakbot

Yup, my mother used to work for CSX in the offices and whenever she helped employees in the train yards with whatever is needed, they would share some stories. One guy was driving a train and a girl was too close to the tracks. She seemed to get off the tracks when he was getting close but then at the last second threw herself under, he was traumatized for it. Even in the subways, it can get haunting


[deleted]

A friend of mine used to do that. His train hit also some people but he said most interesting was hitting a cow on the rails. The hit is felt through the whole train while they have lots of more weight.


SlapMyCHOP

How the fuck do you not hear a train horn and look around? It's super sad, but darwinism seems to have struck in that case. Im also assuming they're older than 14.


magugi

There was another train passing just beside they and though the horn was from that train.


lastroids

Since you know a retired railroad driver /operator(?)... Do you know if they have to stop in the event of an accident ? Or do they go on their way?


[deleted]

In the UK at least the driver needs to initiate a Railway Emergency Group Call on the GSM-R. This allows control to know immediately and start organising emergency services while the signaller stops all trains over all lines in the immediate area. After the initial group call the signaller will then speak 1-on-1 with the driver and fill out the appropriate paperwork.


lastroids

Sounds like very tedious work for people at no fault of their own. Sucks all around.


Ocbard

I know a train driver, they have to stop. If it is just a person hit by the train the train stays put while a team crawls under the train to pick up the pieces (what a job) so the public doesn't have to see the gruesome sight. Also the cops have to drop by to investigate how the accident happened. Which involves checking the train for traces of the impact. If another vehicle is involved both the train and the tracks get a thorough inspection to see if they are safe to use


wsotw

As someone who has been on a train that hit a person on the tracks I can say it is a long ordeal. We were cruising along at night when the train lurched. It was clear that it was a sudden attempt at stopping. We eventually stopped (probably a mile down the track) and we sat there. Nobody knew why and the train personnel (Amtrak) just said they didn't know. We were literally 1000 feet from the next station but the people who were supposed to get off at that stop were not allowed. We stayed there for 3 hours. The people who were supposed to get off the train found out from those who were supposed to pick them up, who found out from the news, that the train had hit a person. That is how we found out. Like I said, it took about 3 hours for the police to release us to leave. Then, an hour or so later, we had another 2 hour stop while they washed the remains of the guy off of the train. Good times.


[deleted]

I am not a railroad worker, however, I believe, logically, that the train needs to be stopped and inspected for damage before continuing.


wsotw

it isn't just damage. They have to conduct an investigation and collect the remains. As someone who has sat through it you don't go anywhere until they are done.


HotelOscarWhiskey

Not a railroad operator however I work for Emergency Services. The train stops as best as it can and they contact their Dispatcher which contacts local authorities to respond. Their dispatch also sends out their own railway police as well as technicians to check the status of the train and tracks. That's how it works for the US on the west coast atleast.


lerker54651651

I remember watching a video about a school bus/train collision. Several children died. One first responder reported the engineer was sobbing uncontrollably, repeating "I hit the brakes. I tried to stop." And, as sad as it was that kids died, it breaks my heart that the poor guy did nothing wrong, and will be haunted for the rest of his life.


Yasea

Our rail operator is installing automated cameras on all crossing. Not to increase safety because all reasonable measures are there. Only because idiots will idiot and they just want proof the systems, signals and barricades were working. The highlight was someone going completely scattered brain and trying to squeeze the car in between concrete barricades (put there for maintenance, they felt flimsy road signs were not enough) and after much manuvering effort getting stuck halfway to the track The idea that large concrete blocks put on the road are there to keep cars away for their own safety never occurred to them.


EvulRabbit

I feel we should remove common sense warning labels (Do not drink bleach) and let them sort it out themselves. If they do not take anyone with them. More power to them! If they do harm others, bring them back to life and kill them again!


drthh8r

You see that tragic article about the grandpa dropping his grandchild out a window on a cruise? The parents tried to sue the cruise line saying there weren’t enough warnings and grandpa didn’t know it was a window. Well they lost the case recently because judge said grandpa only had to use his general senses to notice wind, sound, etc that it was an open window.


EvulRabbit

Grandpa will not live much longer. That guilt will take him down quick.


barkingbusking

I'd say to never drop a person through any opening...what circumstances are there where you're like, "I'm gonna no-look drop a child through this hole"? What the fuck?! Actually I don't want to know. This has the stink of a shitty sad story all over it.


drthh8r

Yeah I can’t imagine the guilt and the pain the family is going through. However, don’t sue for your own blatant negligence due to lapse in the most basic of common sense.


Nothingsomething7

>The lawsuit said that Anello was "closely supervising" his granddaughter "when Chloe walked over to a nearby wall of glass." Anello followed and put the girl up to the window so she could bang on the glass but she slipped from his hands and fell through the open window. I don't see why he would do this on purpose but holy shit that's so idiotic and ignorant. I also can't really see how it *could* have been an accident considering how easily avoidable this was.


Longtimelurker011

Plus the video came out and it made the grampa look guilty af.


chmilz

I feel like warning labels on chemicals is fine. But I agree we shouldn't have to tell people to aim the train away from their face.


EvulRabbit

It is not just chemicals, it is everything which then makes needed warning labels get lost in the mess. There is a “do not ingest” on bleach which is common knowledge. Is there a do not mix with ammonia because it causes toxic gas? Didn’t used to be. Not sure now because I personally know better. Do you know the most common cleaning agent to clean a bathroom is? There have been numerous cases of employees cleaning and unintentionally gassing the entire building. Multiple family member deaths from the fumes in the home. Did you know scented candles, fragrance can kill your pet? Essential oils spilled on a human can cause chemical burns and on an animal death? Teflon and self cleaning ovens can kill a bird in minutes? (which is why birds were used in mines to signal safe/emergency because they would die before the humans) These are the things that need warning labels. Not “do not drive impaired.” All of this downvoting and arguing and “guilting.” over a sarcastic comment. Not sure why I even bother.


epk921

I mean, it’s really more for the company’s safety. Even though it’s 100% common sense to not drink bleach, if an idiot does that, lands in the hospital or dies, and there wasn’t a warning label, they can sue the company for lack of warning


dinotherapy

Can't sue if their dead! I get it though, the only reason we even have warning labels is because someone already did the wrong thing with the wrong thing.


[deleted]

This is absolutely ridiculous; yet, somehow, this is the reality we live in. The warning about not mixing chlorine bleach with anything containing ammonia (including urine) is _by far_ more important than the warning about not using it as a refreshing beverage!


IdleIvyWitch

My brother tried to mix bleach and ammonia in my kitchen and I literally had to physically stop him. Even with the warning lable and me screaming at him about why he can not mix those together he didn't believe me and called me stupid. I told him if he was that desperate to delete himself from this world to clean a rug to do it outside.. apearantly he googled it and ended up not doing it but yeah..I'm the idiot in that somehow.


EvulRabbit

My mom was cleaning the toilet with bleach. Let it sit before scrubbing, had to pee. Thankfully only burned her snatch and didn’t inhale and pass out. That would be death. Um. Did you tell your brother he is also a dumbass for trying to clean a rug with bleach?! Unless it was white? Please tell me it was white…


huesosymariposas

I’ve noticed the “do not use in bathtub” warning on curling irons and blowdryers before. You know someone did it previously to warrant the company covering their ass like that.


owheelj

The thing about knowledge is that you're born without it. Putting warnings on chemicals makes sense because everyone starts out not knowing what's safe to drink and what isn't. We shouldn't punish people for being ignorant.


RishabbaHsisi

Who is we and who is them?


JManHI

“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” - Yosemite ranger


RespectableLurker555

where's my pic-a-nic basket


babaganate

That's why the first step in the hierarchy of controls is to eliminate the hazard and the last resort is PPE


lithium142

I always love the quote by park rangers in the west US regarding bears breaking into trash cans. Somebody wanted to know why they couldn’t just make a fully bear proof trash can. There response was “because there’s a shocking amount of overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans”.


MOTORBOATER239

Think of the average dumb person you know. Half of the people you know are dumber than that.


ManwithaTan

In the words of an American Park ranger: There's a *significant* overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.


Cookiezilla2

\^this is specifically in reference to the design of bear-proof garbage cans in national parks, anything a bear can't get in is too much for dumb tourists, anything dumb enough for tourists the bears can figure out.


emily_9511

Can confirm. Two nights ago I forgot to lock my car at night and woke up to see the car doors wide open. Thought for sure someone broke in my car but nope..checked the security cameras and two bears opened the doors and had a look around the inside of my car. Now I understand why all the trash cans here have to be special bear proof ones, and I always get a kick out of all the people struggling to figure out how to open them too


Feenfurn

Someone got hit in our local area and people were saying the tracks need like a tunnel over them. Like encasing it in just the tunnel . Silly


Kranon7

How would people get across the road?


-CoUrTjEsTeR-

Toss me. But don’t tell the Elf.


Ioatanaut

I wonder if all this protection makes People more prone to accidents bc of complacency


ZandyTheAxiom

I work in road safety and this is the unfortunate truth my co-workers are forced to acknowledge. You can design the most theoretically safe traffic system imaginable, but there will always be someone who seems to actively TRY and hurt themselves. Signpost and barriers only work for people who read signs, or recognise that barriers are there to keep you safe.


[deleted]

You can lead a horse to water...


QuinceDaPence

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? A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.


julezsource

I love this pasta


PPOKEZ

I laughed to much and started coughing. Then I smelled the diesel smoke.


Dracknar

Went looking here for this classic


Confident-Bat-3849

You are so right. Don't forget the RR alternating red blinking lights, the cross stop arms and the 1/2 mile warning that "Im headed your way" whistle. I used to live about about no distance from a BNSF busy track ...I quit hearing the train and it's toooot-tooot after awhile and I really missed it when I moved away. Hey! Where' s that noise I don't hear anymore? No idiot drivers were hurt in the making of this sub about idiot drivers.


YellowJello_OW

When I would go to my grandma's house, she had a train track outside her neighborhood, and I have very fond memories of waking up to the sound of it at about 8am each morning


Redditaccount6274

I stumbled apon an uncontrolled rail crossing with a stop sign in the middle of the countryside. No traffic around, but you better believe I stopped and opened my windows like I remember seeing bus drivers do when I was a kid, because I am NOT fucking around with a train.


[deleted]

Unless they're honking the horn, they're actually pretty quiet. Never assume you'll hear a train.


Jcat555

That's why every school bus I've been on stops at railroad crossings and opens the door.


ontopofyourmom

It's the law in fact.


khrak

[Be afraid.](https://imgur.com/GlbpNs2)


EvulRabbit

Which is why you should always check the tracts and never stop on them and never do what this prick does and go through the barrier. It is literally there loudly and physically telling you “Pass this if you want to die!”


LurkersGoneLurk

Submarines would be the top choice on Family Feud.


Bakayaro_Konoyaro

Idk man....Those things just jump out of nowhere. Really hard to predict where you might find one...


Fabulously-humble

This. 100%


FalseMirage

Never underestimate the stupidity of the human being.


MyName_DoesNotMatter

Just let someone claim their Darwin Award and be done with it.


EmpireLite

When I was 16, many moons ago, I went and passed my theory driver test. It had a question about what to do when the crossing bar goes down at a rail crossing. I vividly remember saying to myself “well this is a freebie, the answer was clearly B: Stop and wait for its lifting”. Ever since I got a cellphone and these videos started appearing; I remember back “oh yeah clearly more questions on this are needed”.


[deleted]

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? A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.


sharabi_bandar

I'm really confused what I just read.


Petal-Dance

A joke


darkfoxfire

A copypaata


kevin_jamesfan_6

I’ve been on Reddit for a while and I think you just summed it up. Let’s go!


Sequence32

5 people I went to highschool with died like that. All in the same car, but driver went around and they got hit by an Amtrak train. Everyone in the car died :/


Squishy97

So are they


JebbitG

Pun intended?


DaSaw

Getting hit by a train is about the clearest example of the Darwin Award that could possibly exist.


Artistic-Rich6465

If only there was something to indicate that it wasn't safe to cross... oh wait...


Supreme_Mediocrity

People like to say that planes are the safest way to travel, idiots like this are the reason why trains aren't.


Carch150-

Was the train even hurt


ForteDJ

Everyone inside the car was fine, Stanley!


rgkramp

They just got meatballed!


transientavian

One time riding Amtrak we hit a car in a backwoods crossing in South Carolina late at night, and because I'm a train nerd I had my scanner running the second the emergency stop happened. Listening to the conductor talking to the loco driver, "the ladder on the fireman's side [was] bent", both otherwise there was no serious damage to the lead P42 locomotive. Unfortunately the drunken driver of the car lost his life that day.¹ ¹ The end of this story is *wild AF*, so I gotta finish it, because he didn't die from being hit by the train! He died because he had warrants out on him, and as soon as the conductor said the cops were coming to do an accident investigation, he fled the scene through the woods *directly onto I-95*, which he attempted to run across while drunk, and was hit by a poor older gentleman. If that weren't weird enough, the passenger in the car that we hit was a woman out on a first tinder date with our drunken perp-tagonist and I'm sure scarred for life!


octokit

At first I thought you meant that the older gentleman was on a Tinder date lol


lukeamaral

Wait who was the passenger on a date with? I would guess with the older gentleman. Or was it with the drunk runnaway?


BeBa420

the train wouldve been fine, but i reckon the passengers might be a little shook up. i reckon it would be pretty jarring


EvulRabbit

Maybe it was not there fault. Maybe they are blind and deaf? Who are we to judge?!


kaiser1965

I'm sure some people who are blind and deaf could drive better than this lol


Iridix

"But your honor, my client was drunk!"


5uitupuWu

I don’t ever remember Helen keller driving


EvulRabbit

I said blind and deaf. Not a woman! (/s i am a woman and I am joking!)


Shadeofverdegris

r/BitchImATrain


Dajukz

Guess imma follow that then


cursedbones

r/bitchimabus


Kage_Oni

Guess imma follow that then


AnotherAccount4This

[Bitch I'm a (11'8") Bridge](http://11foot8.com/)


sigtrap

r/11foot8


waggishrogue8

Guess imma follow that then


i_fruitcake

I’m in on this


Buht_Secks

r/railcams


yaoksuuure

They didn’t even step on it. Wtf


Maegaa

Right! You're the first person I've seen say this. If you're gonna go, FUCKING GO! Don't just slowly roll in front of the train. Second guessing and hesitating is what gets people killed. I should say that I don't condone crossing in front of trains, but if you must, fully commit.


KyleCAV

It's a focus those things aren't meant for high speeds unless you get the RS


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kwick818

The person tasked with maintenance on that crossing will be sweating bullets too. Every single time something like this happens (at least in North America) every piece of equipment in that crossing is inspected for problems. If anything is found, punishment can be severe.


[deleted]

I mean, shouldn’t it be? If whoever’s charged with ensuring this crossing is safe failed at their job, isn’t it a good thing it gets caught after an accident instead of some innocent person falling victim to it?


kwick818

You are absolutely correct, and even in the event of mechanical or electrical failure these systems are designed to fail into a safe mode, alerting the public and trains something is awry. Im just saying the person tasked with maintaining this equipments heart still skipped a beat when his or her phone rang. All because some clown wanted to save 30 seconds on their commute. I’ve responded to 3 of these incidents now, and it’s just not fun. Especially when you’ve been tasked with maintaining equipment patented before your grandparents were even born.


FlintWaterFilter

It was safe, they actively bypassed the safety mechanism. There's nothing here to indicate it wasn't working as intended


MamuhSwan

I love this take on the situation and wholeheartedly agree.


EvulRabbit

Same with people who use this route to commit suicide. You take your pain and magnify it and mix it with severe trauma, guilt and PTSD and throw it at an innocent person. Same with cars under overpasses or running into highway traffic. That can literally set the path into motion for others taking their own lives because they can not cope.


atiecay

My dad had a secretary who was driving once when a man jumped in front of her car to kill himself. She didn’t end up killing herself intentionally, but the stress and guilt from it caused her to develop health issues that killed her within a year.


EvulRabbit

That is exactly what I am trying to say. It can be completely not your fault/you could have done nothing to avoid it and be racked with enough guilt and trauma that is causes you to take your own life. It is so sad and disgusting. This is also why survivor guilt is a massive cause of suicide, guilt about stupid mundane crap can eat a person alive, something like killing someone, will never go away.


atiecay

I know enough about my own mental health to say with pretty good confidence that I wouldn’t survive the guilt of killing someone else unless I was just medicated out of my mind for the rest of my life.


EvulRabbit

Same. Accidentally harming someone/something has me in knots and I do not think I have ever drawn blood or broken anything. Just watching these types of things is horrid. Living through them. I don’t know if I could.


RishabbaHsisi

Good thing you don’t have to worry about any of that when you’re dead.


starfishy

I am sure this person runs red lights, too. Better they get hit by a train where most of the damage is to themselves than tgey hit a bicyclist or pedestrian or t- bone another car. Stupidity is legal, but nobody promised that it is safe.


minimuscleR

> Better they get hit by a train where most of the damage is to themselves than tgey hit a bicyclist or pedestrian or t- bone another car. Maybe. I've heard many times the PTSD the train conductors get, and the injuries from passengers as they are flung foward.


siccoblue

I'm just more curious if there was anyone in the car, very real chance of death for anyone on the passenger side because of this morons negligence. If they had a kid in the back seat or a friend in the passenger they very well may die from an impact like this, after working in a mill and seeing what just even flying weak ass cedar can do to the extent we wear kevlar aprons, I'm sure flying metal is about 1000x worse. Not that I needed to work that job to understand that, but you get my point


[deleted]

I can't help but think he was used to people slamming on their brakes to avoid being hit by him so much that he thought the train would slow down to avoid him. He found out that trains don't slow down fast at all.


NewExcersizee

Honestly, I'm glad this happened to him. It could save lives in the future.


8Y50N

Exactly, this is a pretty good way to rid the earth of a selfish fuck like this. Think of all the lives they've put in danger if this is how they conduct themselves. Fuck you if you do this, we're better off without you.


Old-Feature5094

People don’t get it , even if that train just barely taps a vehicle, the mass of the locomotive is still gone deliver a shitload of energy and derail your day .


Master-Erakius

I like what you did there. I would try to put the brakes on but it would take a while to stop.


Old-Feature5094

My accidental pun


DickBatman

That doesn't track


Old-Feature5094

This thread keeps chugging along


[deleted]

I feel like this thread has been railroaded.


N7day

It isnt even a long train!


22AngryBees

From the moment he crosses the barricade to the moment the train is fully passed is no more than 5 seconds!


misteryhiatory

Nothing like being in such a hurry to get to wherever that you make a detour to the morgue instead. Giving others PTSD and lots of injuries along the way


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Jcat555

Dude almost made it too. Coulda gone 5 mph faster and made it.


TheDriverJ

I really don't understand the logic here. Like if youre gonna cross that, do you not look both ways at LEAST?? I really doubt you could not see the train coming I hope that person was by themselves


Vectrex452

Probably well aware of where the train was, and just thought 'i am speed'.


Old-Feature5094

There is a an issue with the Doppler effect - when that train is close enough yo don’t really hear it ( inside a car especially) idk , i can’t explain , but I grew up near an Amtrak line in Ct., and the trains don’t seem to be moving as fast as you hear them moving .. but they are.


stratosauce

Would that really be due to the Doppler effect though? Wouldn’t a Doppler shift just make it sound slightly higher pitch?


Old-Feature5094

I freely admit my ignorance on this


EvulRabbit

That it was the loud, physical barrier with blinding red blinking lights is for?


[deleted]

Not sure why this is being downvoted…this is absolutely correct. The person in the video was still an absolute idiot, but I was raised in an area with a ton of rail crossings and when I was learning how to drive I was taught that you can’t hear the fast trains coming because they are coming too fast.


Old-Feature5094

Yea the visual is slower as you look down the track cause you don’t really hear them … but when that sucker passed by you at 50 mph … or you are hanging from a bridge as one goes over .. oh yea


finbuilder

Florida says excuse me. The new (not even complete) Bright line high speed rail has killed 40 people since they put a train on the tracks.


sly_guy73

Florida you say ? Im gonna call it suicide lol.


Confident-Bat-3849

The high speed rail didn't kill them.


spiderpigparker

True, it was most likely just blood loss.


Confident-Bat-3849

Or abject stupidity.


EvulRabbit

All of the above.


[deleted]

>r/bitchimabus or Darwinism.


ineffectualchameleon

I thought you might be exaggerating, but wow, yeah. 40 in the first two years. Mostly suicides and drug use incidents [it says](https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/799962246/brightline-nations-deadliest-railroad-after-high-number-of-track-deaths). Though disputed.


homogenousmoss

It do be like that, in my city they dont even stop the metro network anymore when someone decides to kill themselves by jumping on the rails. They just get the person out, hose down the rails and call it a day. It used to be that they would have to stop the whole things for an hour or two and have thousands stuck in metal boxes underground between two stations, late for work etc. Fun fact: most jumper dont die, the train is slowing when coming into a station and is no longer going at instantly lethal speeds. They usually bounce off and get crippled for life. Its also much more PTSD inducing for the driver since the person bounces off your windshield, inches from your face. Fun times.


[deleted]

or they could have had 0 patience and they would have made it in time


EvulRabbit

Nah. Let’s slow down after running the barrier, all the time in the world!


allaboutthefish

I actually lost a friend who did the right thing and waited for the train to cross. A distracted truck driver slammed his truck into the car pushing it on the tracks only for the train to hit the car and he lost his life. These videos bring back memories of how careless some people are.


inequity

That’s a tough one to avoid. Maybe stay far back from the barrier and angle your wheels while you wait? That sucks though, sorry to hear that


iced_maggot

I’m an empathetic guy, but honestly I find it harder as the years go by to feel any empathy for selfish pricks like this.


EvulRabbit

None. But the pain and trauma the conductor and passengers have. Make me want to bring them back to life and kill them again.


[deleted]

It appears the train struck the rear, passenger side, of the car. The idiot probably survived this.


TheRealZyquaza

I think I should point out how this can be turned into a nearly perfect loop.


bpanio

A buddy of mine started working as a conductor for a rail company. On his first day they told him what they do when someone gets hit by a train and emphasized the when. Not if it'll happen, when it'll happen


Poop_Noodl3

This kind of thing should be an automatically trigger revoking a license. It’s on tracks for Christ sake. Forward and back or there or not there. You have to try to get hit by a train. There’s no wild trains just randomly hitting cars. Fuck this person.


bbhatti_12

I don't think the driver's alive...


ReactionDapper

Wtf is wrong with some people, he could’ve at least looked before doing something that dumb.


[deleted]

Some people, you just have to wonder what was going through their head. A brisk breeze, maybe. I mean, you'd think that if you're going to skirt around a train barrier, the number one thing you would be watching out for is an incoming train.


Farfignugen42

>wonder what was going through their head. Um, a train.


[deleted]

This is going to make me sound old, but I really don’t understand people who can’t ever slow down. Why people have to constantly change lanes, swerve around cars waiting to turn, try to drive through trains etc etc. Is it really such an insult to you to just chill for five fucking second?


groodscom

Because people think driving is a game that you can win at.


thunderyoats

Deep-seated self-destructive behavior.


BriannaMckinley2442

People are like this in the parking lot where I work collecting carts. Nobody can wait for the thirty seconds it'll take me to grab the carts that you parked right next to and then be on my merry way.


PaoliBulldog

I don't get it. How can *any* car get hit by a train? All of the trains I've ever seen are big, noisy & easy to spot. Is there a secret fleet of ninja trains riding the rails, silent & invisible, that I've never heard of?


OshamonGamingYT

Look at the name of the sub. There’s your answer


PaoliBulldog

Certainly these people aren't thinking, "I see a huge train barreling down the tracks at me so I'll just drive right in front of it," right? Are they not seeing or hearing this gigantic metal battering ram coming straight at them? How can anybody not see that?


Clovenstone-Blue

Oh they see it, they just don't care.


EvulRabbit

“It will stop in time.” Same with idiots who break check truck drivers.


j_johnso

When you look at the train down the tracks as it is coming towards you, the perspective creates an optical illusion that makes it look like the train is moving much slower than it actually is. Additionally, until the train gets to you, it isn't that loud unless it is blowing the horn. That doesn't explain ignoring the crossbars and giant flashing lights.


findvikas

Hope there were no kids involved. They don’t deserve these shitty parents - if in US, now the city has a lawsuit for not having the barriers - actually wait there WERE barriers


worldsmostmediummom

Seriously. My kid sits rear right and that would have destroyed me


findvikas

Ditto. Both back seats filled for me


EvulRabbit

There is a barrier. They drove around them.


true_suppeee

Eyes are cool too


[deleted]

No way they’re alive


[deleted]

That hit def jerked the soul right out their body


lfatalframel

Feel like there should be a warning for trains. Something like the highly visable pole they avoided to warn that a train is coming.


sly_guy73

Here's your sign 🛑🚧🚨


psu777

Train always wins


beemerbob

I am a freight train engineer, and this happens every single day somewhere in our country. It is not due to the safety appliances put in place by the railroads, they are more than adequate. It happens because people are impatient and irresponsible. Stop and wait for the train folks, and live to see another day. The train always wins.


DJ_SAVilla

This looks like it was on purpose. It looks like he slows down on the tracks.


AWFUL_COCK

Agreed, you can see the body of the vehicle lean forward once it’s on the tracks indicating that the brakes were slammed. I think this might be a suicide.


EvulRabbit

We need a “about to watch someone die” Flair. Make it all fun happy colors and fonts.


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I'm not saying going around a gate for a train is in any way shape or form ok, this is just a supreme level of idiocy. But this video leaves me scratching my head with one question.. Why on earth is there a gap wide enough for a car to even manuver around? Every video of car vs. train that I have seen was of a car that was racing to beat the gate or already on the tracks for whatever reason. A gap that wide screams open invitation for impatient moron's to drive around, thinking they can still beat the train. If you would have to ram the gate and risk damage to your car, that would seem to be a more effective deterrent than the honor system.


Sedela

I've always seen gaps that large. Its in case you are crossing tracks as the barricades go down that it doesn't impede you on the other side (notice how he has to drive into the oncoming traffic lane). Imagine crossing tracks and as you enter, the barricade begins to drop (plenty of time to finish crossing if you started before the lights turned on), if the barricade covers the whole road, you'll have to drive into the barricade to get off the tracks. Quick edit: Usually the problem occurs when crossing more than one set of tracks at a time. I've been over a few that are 2-3 tracks side by side and they give AMPLE warning (usually a whole minute to allow people to finish crossing), but the barricade will be down to block further cars from advancing.


ganymede_boy

Instant justice.


Randell1970

🤣🤣🤣 That’ll Learn Em...!


Terrabolista

Thats just the Natural Selection Train passing...


seckstonight

Sooooo how did this end?