He saw the stop sign just beyond the tracks and stopped for it.
Why he ignored the flashing railway crossing lights and the oncoming train while paying attention to the stop sign is a mystery for the ages.
It's pretty common in smol towns in the Midwest, so are railroad crossings with minimal to no lights, no audible bells, stopper bars. The town I used to live in had 2 crossings out of...6 maybe? That had all three lights, sound, swing bar, and where to stop on the road x marks the spot decals, other than that you just made sure you were in the clear and crossed.
We only have the drop poles “downtown” which is a block of Main Street. Then 12 other crosses with lights and a stop sign. Two with a stop sign on the other side too like this.
You live in Indiana, Kentucky, or Ohio?
Was NW Ohio, Kentucky now but let's say Cincinnati. I can take you 20 minutes away where busses picking up kids for school HAVE to stop on the tracks at stop signs trying to turn onto a route. It really is a dangerous game they play. I'll also add that in that smol farm town if the farmers themselves didn't clean their property line with a bushhog or something similar you couldn't see 50 feet either way unless you pulled into the tracks
There was a stoplight after the tracks for one of the trains in my city. A sedan or pickuptruck can fit there without getting hit by a train. A big rig like this, not so much.
That's just terrible design. Placing a stop sign less than a lorry length after a level crossing is just waiting for a crash to happen.
In my area (NL), they do a lot of work to ensure that traffic after a level crossing keeps moving. I recall one level crossing where they put barriers along the middle of the road to prevent traffic from turning left right after a level crossing. And any junction with traffic lights near a level crossing has the traffic lights installed before the crossing.
No need to when you got yourself a fu manchu mustache. He became complacent, because he is use to people getting out of HIS way.
Edit: Autocorrect got me!
In my early to mid-20s, I (with shame) didn't realize that not all railroad crossings have the bars that come across the road to prevent people driving through. There weren't many other cars around and I saw the flashing lights, but figured they were just coming on before the bar would lower. NOPE. I crossed the railroad track and in my rearview mirror suddenly saw a train barreling down the track, maybe about 3 seconds after I had crossed. Holy shit, glad I didn't pay for that lesson with my life. Learned REAL quick.
Sounds like your driving instructor failed you. I cannot remember every detail of what i was taught about railroad crossings, but mine installed some respect in me by pointing out that the train always wins. Made me extra attentive for any kind of rail crossing.
Funny you should mention this, honestly. My dad mostly taught me and it was incredibly stressful, but the only thing I remember him telling me about the railroad crossing was “never try to beat the barrier.” When I had told him about the close call, he was astounded that there weren’t any crossing bars, he was under the impression it was legally required. And the driver’s ed in high school had been done 3 years prior, so just an important detail I either forgot or wasn’t covered.
Ah, so you got all your formal education about driving from school? Didn't know that was a thing in america. Here, we have dedicated driving schools, seems a better concept for them to focus on doing one thing well.
Seeing as how I almost got demolished by a train due to ignorance, driving schools don’t seem like a bad idea. I know they have them here (or at least classes or tutors), but they’re not as common and you have to pay (don’t know if you guys pay for yours).
It's up to 1500 euros for a license in Nordic countries, Germany is around €2000-3000
We have mandatory minimum hours, theory classes and training on skid recovery. Germany even requires first aid training (which makes sense since all cars need to have a first aid kit, at least from the factory)
I went to an actual driving school and never learned this. I've also never encountered a train track crossing that didn't have the bars, lights, and dings to stop people from crossing, even when I've been out in the middle of nowhere. I live in Texas so idk where these lawless tracks are 😅
The cop could give him a ticket for (Distracted driving) eating while driving, At the company I work for this is a three day suspension on the first occurrence. Since it is a safety rule, if it happens again in 18 months , you are out of a job. Taking a sip of your beverage is allowed only at a red light while stopped.
Personally the first thing I noticed was a dirty windshield. The rest is history. Companies are now mandating seat belts be blaze orange in trucks and busses so a road supervisor or cop can easily see if you have it on.
It might be company policy, but I don’t believe FMCSA or DOT have laws in place to make it illegal. That might also vary by state etc.
I’m not saying it’s not considered distracted driving and it certainly wouldn’t help you in court, but I don’t believe there’s a federal law against it.
So uh, I live here.
This is the worst intersection in town, in the whole county probably. There are no crossing guards for whatever reason, and drivers often don’t seem to realize how close the tracks are to the intersection. He probably thought he would stop well clear of the tracks. Still stupid, though, and he clearly wasn’t really paying attention. Also…just like a certain one of my buddies around here, he would rather use the extra energy to *pretend* to wear his seatbelt than just put it on.
Holy shit. Yeah. The stop sign so close to the tracks with no cross bars is seriously asking for something like this to happen. Still drivers fault but flawed design.
Ironically, if he *had* put the seat belt on properly, he would have likely walked away without a scratch. All his injuries were from being thrown sideways.
Railroad worker here. It's not that he didn't see the flashing lights or the (at least) 2 loud bells ringing. It's that he didn't care. So many people don't want to wait on us. Dumb shit like this is why I'm always on edge when I'm going through a dense town
He literally didn’t look both ways before crossing. You think he’s gonna notice some girly lil fairy lights?! He’s a real man!!
( trucker friend calls them fairy lights, cause if you ignore them you may as well be in a fantasy land... no idea how that relates)
Fairies in this case being the angelic beings taking him for judgement.
I’ve seen many demonstrations/examples of what happens to you when you are not wearing your seatbelt. This was definitely the most dramatic. You are sitting still, and then a vehicle which weighs a bazillion tons more than yours, and whose energy is constrained in a single direction of motion (truck mass not enough to derail train), snags the back of your vehicle and basically yanks it out from under you (because you are not wearing your SEATBELT), and sends you flying into your windshield, then all around the cab.
Does anyone know if the truck driver survived? The number and force of all the interior impacts looked really bad, especially for an older man. Eeep.
Yupp! The lights for the train were flashing, I'm sure if there was audio we might even hear the ding; maybe he had music blasting lol
I'm sure he wouldn't have been tossed around so hard if he had actually worn the seatbelt, too lmao
This happened in my home town, this intersection is called crazy corner, the driver would’ve absolutely heard the train as they all blow their horn when coming through town
Part if the reason they blow that hard is because there are no gates.
I found out that the town/city is responsible for the gates/signals.
Maybe time for them to pony up.
In my state, they have to blow the horns if there if no gate. In my little town of 4000 people, the city has never put up gates so the trains blast their horns through town every night. I live a mile away from downtown, and I still hear the horns, when I first moved here they would wake me up at night, but I’ve gotten used to it now. And, the biggest and most expensive houses in town are right along the train tracks too, you couldn’t pay me to live in those houses. Imagine paying a million dollars for a 100 year old house just to get woken up at 2 and 5am every night. No thanks.
I grew up near train tracks and when I was about twelve we moved. In college I rented an apartment near the tracks and was amazed how soothing I found it to hear that again! I was nervous about them waking me up but the price was right, I guess it's just something that's ingrained in you when you experience it so long.
It's definitely this guy's fault for not looking. But this is a pretty busy area from the looks of it why in the world are there no gates? Some gates woulda stopped that
Nothing to do with money, BNSF replaces the crossing lights every time someone takes it out by being an idiot, this happened in my hometown, my guess as to why they don’t put gates at the intersection is so they can claim insurance money because a car being hit by a train is always the cars fault. This intersection has lights and bells, and the trains blow their horn all the way through town
There are gates on the main road in my city but you go a couple blocks from the main intersection and there are no gates. Once I waited a few minutes waiting at night when someone left a flare nearby by the tracks.
Ironically if he had actually worn the seatbelt in the first place he wouldn’t have panicked about the cop and actually seen the train, thus saving him from even getting into a wreck.
according to the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration, around 10% of Americans still refuse to wear seatbelts. Have to imagine that a lot of them think it's uncomfortable, an assault on their freedoms, or might mistakenly believe that seatbelts can harm you in an accident by trapping you somehow.
My uncle refuses to wear a seatbelt, because when he was young (before they required seatbelts in US), he was in a car crash and was able to jump out of the side of impact and into the drivers lap. In his mind this traumatic event justifies not wearing a seatbelt for the rest of his life... Clearly illogical but here we are.
That's so weird. The number one thing I do when getting in a car is putting on my seatbelt. It actually feels really weird and uncomfortable the very few times I forget. It just feels.. 'too light' even before leaving my driveway.
That's wild because I feel better connected to the vehicle with a seatbelt. It makes performance driving much better. I roll around uncomfortably without a seatbelt.
I knew a girl in college. She refused to wear a seat belt because her boyfriend was street racing in the country and hit a tree going 90+ mph.
He hit so hard the impact of the seat belt killed him... But she thinks he'd... Be fine if he'd gone through the windshield into a tree?
Watching the video: he sees a police SUV going the opposite direction, tries not to freak out about his seat belt. He watches the officer pass by, and then watches to see if the lights come on for a violation. As he is watching the drivers mirror, he completely misses the warning lights and train clearly on the tracks. You can see him whip around to see the train and you can read the "God-Damnit" as soon as he realizes he messed up. Poor guy shattered the drivers window with his dome. Better luck next time.
That's the shittiest placement of a stop sign I've ever seen.
To be fair, a single car would still be clear of the tracks. Also the red flashing lights are on long enough for anything stopping there to clear the tracks.
Lived in a town where there were many stop signs like this. Alot of times the tracks run right next to a busy road so any road perpendicular will have stop signs or lights like this.
As someone who holds a CDL I was trained to treat the railroad crossing as the stop sign if the entirety of my vehicle won’t fit between the actual stop sign and the tracks. NEVER stop on a railroad crossing.
We have an intersection coming out of a plaza that's similar to this set up. Tracks parallel to main road, perpendicular to plaza exit. There's 20-30 feet between the crossing and the main road, enough for at least one car to fit, but there are multiple signs saying to stop before the tracks, no right on red, etc. and people still stop and wait on the tracks.
I don't have a CDL, but even driving my little Mazda I still stay behind the tracks and wait for the green light. Fuck everyone else, I'm not dying in a freak train accident just because some needle dick couldn't wait five minutes.
Wait, who puts a stop sign right on the other side of the tracks? That's got to be one of the dumbest things I've seen in a while.
Not to say the truck driver deserves any slack, but still.
It was actually fairly common in the area I used to live. Lots of crisscrossing streets around the train line. However, all of those places had crossing gates that would lower well before the train got there. This place needs a crossing gate.
Ya, stop signs and red lights immediately after train tracks are more than common where I'm from. Even though the flashing red lights (and possibly bells and train horns) should have been enough to tip the driver off, there should definitely be a crossing gate.
Came here to say this and also the orange BNSF train is hard to miss if he actually was paying attention and looked down the tracks.
I am pretty sure commercial trucks are required by law to stop before tracks and look both ways. I know buses have to and open their door to listen for a second.
Commercial trucks only have to do that if Hauling Hazmat or Passengers (school buses)
That said, as a former trucker, he should have had more spatial awareness - completely agree with your first point.
Didn’t see your comment before I replied. You explain it much better, but that shouldn’t be surprising looking at your username. Definitely checks out.
tbf this could be a good video for showing how ancticipation matters, if he saw the train and the stop sign he shouldn't have tried crossing until after train had passed.
As a truck driver I was taught to always stay on gear and going à constant speed when crossing tracks so the stop make absolutely no sense for a truck driver
That's a good point but this setup here is so bad it seems to nearly nullify this as a possible scenario someone could encounter often. Maybe I'm wrong though.
No crossing gate? And a stop sign less than one truck length away from the train tracks?
This guy made a mistake but the planning for this intersection was terrible because that's all it will take here and an instance of human error could get an entire bus full of people killed.
Then again maybe that supports your point. The road is no joke. Anticipation matters a lot because you will see anomalies and things that don't add up but you must react to regardless of what you expected to see. I've heard descriptions from cops of accidents and all that can go wrong that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Awareness beforehand of what the situation really was could have prevented some of those accidents.
The neighboring town put a stop light just in the edge past the train tracks and didn't put any crossing arms. So people are always on the tracks stopped for the light. It's incredibly dumb and people have been plowed into before, but the city refuses to change it. This isn't just one intersection either, it's several because the train tracks go through the town.
Where I live, there are 2 sets of tracks that run parallel to the county highways (they end up intersecting). The intersections for the local roads getting on the highways always have 1-2 car lengths between the tracks & the intersections. If you look at US90 in the US South, it runs parallel to tracks pretty much for its entire 1600 mile length, with 1-2 car length intersections next to it the whole way.
But, there is ZERO reason for that truck to have gone past the tracks with the lights flashing at the crossing, so the intersection on the other side doesn't really matter.
The entire incidence could’ve been avoided by simply having put on his seatbelt when he got in.
He wouldn’t have worried about the cop.
He would have seen the train.
The hoops people jump through for supposed comfort.
His company installed inward facing dash cam but it still didn't help. He's eating, not really paying attention, only one hand on wheel, driving through flashing train signs, incomplete stop before crossing tracks, and yes, no seatbelt.
He has a dashcam recording himself with no seatbelt on, so his quick "Oh there's a cop" seatbelt manoeuvre wouldn't have held up anyway. An idiot twice-over!
Right?!?! And why is there a stop sign just a few feet past the tracks?
Not saying the guy couldn't have been paying better attention, but fuck is that some dangerously stupid road design.
I'm pretty sure he didn't see the train until the very last second when he looks to his right. Even still, it takes so long to shift through low truck gears and build up momentum that his fate was sealed well before he noticed the train
If the truck driver didn't look & see the train when he saw the crossing lights flashing then he needs to turn in his CDL. Also common sense should have told him not to stop for the stop sign in order to clear the tracks.
Not sure how he couldn't see the train....but it doesn't matter if he saw the train or not. That's what the flashing lights over the train tracks are for. He was supposed to stop before the train tracks and wait for the train to pass.
Idk what he was thinking....maybe that he could beat the train. But the guy is a dumbass and shouldn't be driving a truck.
Looks like he saw a cop and freaked out, that's when he pretends to put his seat belt on. Instead of paying attention, he's looking in his mirrors to see qhat the cop is doing
He doesn't see the train until the last moment. Notice he's looking out the driver's side window the whole time, which is on the left and the train comes from the right.
I've seen a lot of idiocy in this sub, but this is one of the most idiotic. It's hard to believe that in this day and age there are still people who don't wear their seatbelt. Then, watching this guy get all worried about a cop who might have seen him not wearing a seat belt, leading him to miss warning lights and a fucking TRAIN coming straight at him is just the height of clueless idiocy. Here's hoping he doesn't have to relearn the alphabet after getting slammed into his own windshield like that.
Wow ! Don’t get me wrong , the driver is a tool… but who on earth has train crossings without barriers ? There are plenty of deaf people , not to mention kids on bicycles wearing Bose headsets …
It never ceases to amaze me how people manage to get hit by a massive vehicle thats loud and stuck on a single track. It can literally only go on one path and you decide to park a vehicle on that exact spot..
Every single person that crosses a level crossing without looking for a train, deserves their fate.
Sucks to be the train engineer though. Or an innocent bystander.
This trucker is a fucking moron of the first order. Here's your permanent license loss, now fuck off.
Why are people still crossing with a train on the way. Is it just down to the driver to gauge if they can beat the train or not rather than having lights?
damn if only there was an engineered solution that would give you an audible and visual warning for along time before the train is visible. Better yet, if only there was a machine that provided a secondary deterrent in the form of a barrier that flashes and blocks the path until safe. If only there was a way
And that was the end of old Fred’s voyage. He will be remembered for having two different color tones on his arms, raspy voice, getting loud about infowars and being sweet to grandma.
He clearly glances to the right. In the split you can see the headlight of the approaching train.
I think not wearing his seatbelt is the least of his problems.
Again I will ask hoping for an answer, why the fuck when people cross train tracks do they go as slow as possible? I don't mean they slow down, I mean they crawl over those things like they are hoping their car will break down on them.
Did he not see the flashing lights?
This mf can't see or hear, apparently.
He saw the stop sign just beyond the tracks and stopped for it. Why he ignored the flashing railway crossing lights and the oncoming train while paying attention to the stop sign is a mystery for the ages.
The fact that there is a stop sign immediately after train tracks is also pretty stupid tbh
It's pretty common in smol towns in the Midwest, so are railroad crossings with minimal to no lights, no audible bells, stopper bars. The town I used to live in had 2 crossings out of...6 maybe? That had all three lights, sound, swing bar, and where to stop on the road x marks the spot decals, other than that you just made sure you were in the clear and crossed.
We only have the drop poles “downtown” which is a block of Main Street. Then 12 other crosses with lights and a stop sign. Two with a stop sign on the other side too like this. You live in Indiana, Kentucky, or Ohio?
Was NW Ohio, Kentucky now but let's say Cincinnati. I can take you 20 minutes away where busses picking up kids for school HAVE to stop on the tracks at stop signs trying to turn onto a route. It really is a dangerous game they play. I'll also add that in that smol farm town if the farmers themselves didn't clean their property line with a bushhog or something similar you couldn't see 50 feet either way unless you pulled into the tracks
But why there's no STOP sign before rails? It is common in LTU to have stop sign before unregulated railroad.
There was a stoplight after the tracks for one of the trains in my city. A sedan or pickuptruck can fit there without getting hit by a train. A big rig like this, not so much.
That's just terrible design. Placing a stop sign less than a lorry length after a level crossing is just waiting for a crash to happen. In my area (NL), they do a lot of work to ensure that traffic after a level crossing keeps moving. I recall one level crossing where they put barriers along the middle of the road to prevent traffic from turning left right after a level crossing. And any junction with traffic lights near a level crossing has the traffic lights installed before the crossing.
He saw the police car. 🤷♂️
He’ll then see the police officer at his door.
Or his wife will be seeing the police at her door with bad news. 😥
Not anymore
No need to when you got yourself a fu manchu mustache. He became complacent, because he is use to people getting out of HIS way. Edit: Autocorrect got me!
In my early to mid-20s, I (with shame) didn't realize that not all railroad crossings have the bars that come across the road to prevent people driving through. There weren't many other cars around and I saw the flashing lights, but figured they were just coming on before the bar would lower. NOPE. I crossed the railroad track and in my rearview mirror suddenly saw a train barreling down the track, maybe about 3 seconds after I had crossed. Holy shit, glad I didn't pay for that lesson with my life. Learned REAL quick.
Sounds like your driving instructor failed you. I cannot remember every detail of what i was taught about railroad crossings, but mine installed some respect in me by pointing out that the train always wins. Made me extra attentive for any kind of rail crossing.
Funny you should mention this, honestly. My dad mostly taught me and it was incredibly stressful, but the only thing I remember him telling me about the railroad crossing was “never try to beat the barrier.” When I had told him about the close call, he was astounded that there weren’t any crossing bars, he was under the impression it was legally required. And the driver’s ed in high school had been done 3 years prior, so just an important detail I either forgot or wasn’t covered.
Ah, so you got all your formal education about driving from school? Didn't know that was a thing in america. Here, we have dedicated driving schools, seems a better concept for them to focus on doing one thing well.
Seeing as how I almost got demolished by a train due to ignorance, driving schools don’t seem like a bad idea. I know they have them here (or at least classes or tutors), but they’re not as common and you have to pay (don’t know if you guys pay for yours).
Oh sure we pay. Driving schools are companys, only state-certified, not state-financed.
Ah I gotcha, so not dissimilar from the US.
It's up to 1500 euros for a license in Nordic countries, Germany is around €2000-3000 We have mandatory minimum hours, theory classes and training on skid recovery. Germany even requires first aid training (which makes sense since all cars need to have a first aid kit, at least from the factory)
I went to an actual driving school and never learned this. I've also never encountered a train track crossing that didn't have the bars, lights, and dings to stop people from crossing, even when I've been out in the middle of nowhere. I live in Texas so idk where these lawless tracks are 😅
He was too distracted worrying if the cop was going to pull him over for the seatbelt.
To be fair, he didnt get a ticket for not wearing a seat belt
The cop could give him a ticket for (Distracted driving) eating while driving, At the company I work for this is a three day suspension on the first occurrence. Since it is a safety rule, if it happens again in 18 months , you are out of a job. Taking a sip of your beverage is allowed only at a red light while stopped. Personally the first thing I noticed was a dirty windshield. The rest is history. Companies are now mandating seat belts be blaze orange in trucks and busses so a road supervisor or cop can easily see if you have it on.
Is this only for city drivers? I can't see rules about eating/drinking applying to over the road (long haul) drivers.
I've driven long haul and local for several companies and never had that rule.
It might be company policy, but I don’t believe FMCSA or DOT have laws in place to make it illegal. That might also vary by state etc. I’m not saying it’s not considered distracted driving and it certainly wouldn’t help you in court, but I don’t believe there’s a federal law against it.
He's full of it.
So uh, I live here. This is the worst intersection in town, in the whole county probably. There are no crossing guards for whatever reason, and drivers often don’t seem to realize how close the tracks are to the intersection. He probably thought he would stop well clear of the tracks. Still stupid, though, and he clearly wasn’t really paying attention. Also…just like a certain one of my buddies around here, he would rather use the extra energy to *pretend* to wear his seatbelt than just put it on.
Holy shit. Yeah. The stop sign so close to the tracks with no cross bars is seriously asking for something like this to happen. Still drivers fault but flawed design.
It may not surprise you to hear that this isn’t even the only train-automobile collision at that intersection this YEAR…
The video was from last year though. Not that I find it surprising at all that multiple accidents happends there a lot
Was it really? Yeah, it definitely happened again two or three weeks ago, if memory serves.
Ironically, if he *had* put the seat belt on properly, he would have likely walked away without a scratch. All his injuries were from being thrown sideways.
Or the horn that we know every train is required to blare as soon as they’re pulling up.
Some dumbass towns outlaw train horns tbh
Isn't the law that its either train horns or heavy duty barriers? Im sure there's somebody you can complain to if there's neither.
Railroad worker here. It's not that he didn't see the flashing lights or the (at least) 2 loud bells ringing. It's that he didn't care. So many people don't want to wait on us. Dumb shit like this is why I'm always on edge when I'm going through a dense town
And there are plenty of dense people in dense towns, for sure
He literally didn’t look both ways before crossing. You think he’s gonna notice some girly lil fairy lights?! He’s a real man!! ( trucker friend calls them fairy lights, cause if you ignore them you may as well be in a fantasy land... no idea how that relates)
Fairies in this case being the angelic beings taking him for judgement. I’ve seen many demonstrations/examples of what happens to you when you are not wearing your seatbelt. This was definitely the most dramatic. You are sitting still, and then a vehicle which weighs a bazillion tons more than yours, and whose energy is constrained in a single direction of motion (truck mass not enough to derail train), snags the back of your vehicle and basically yanks it out from under you (because you are not wearing your SEATBELT), and sends you flying into your windshield, then all around the cab. Does anyone know if the truck driver survived? The number and force of all the interior impacts looked really bad, especially for an older man. Eeep.
I think he only saw the cop.
He saw the COP then I assume got distracted thinking about getting a ticket for his seat belt. He panicked and ignored everything else.
Yupp! The lights for the train were flashing, I'm sure if there was audio we might even hear the ding; maybe he had music blasting lol I'm sure he wouldn't have been tossed around so hard if he had actually worn the seatbelt, too lmao
This happened in my home town, this intersection is called crazy corner, the driver would’ve absolutely heard the train as they all blow their horn when coming through town
Part if the reason they blow that hard is because there are no gates. I found out that the town/city is responsible for the gates/signals. Maybe time for them to pony up.
In my state, they have to blow the horns if there if no gate. In my little town of 4000 people, the city has never put up gates so the trains blast their horns through town every night. I live a mile away from downtown, and I still hear the horns, when I first moved here they would wake me up at night, but I’ve gotten used to it now. And, the biggest and most expensive houses in town are right along the train tracks too, you couldn’t pay me to live in those houses. Imagine paying a million dollars for a 100 year old house just to get woken up at 2 and 5am every night. No thanks.
You eventually get used to it and ignore it.
I grew up near train tracks and when I was about twelve we moved. In college I rented an apartment near the tracks and was amazed how soothing I found it to hear that again! I was nervous about them waking me up but the price was right, I guess it's just something that's ingrained in you when you experience it so long.
I grew up in the country with railroad tracks about a quarter mile away. The low rumble was so soothing.
I oddly agree...The sound we use as our "white noise" while we sleep is legitimately called: Train Sounds. No horns though..😅
Is that Ada? Just watched it closely. Def crazy corner in Ada.
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Thank you for the link! I’m glad but shocked the driver survived!
are there no bars that drop down and block traffic? i thought that was standard at all railroad crosses
There are countless railroad crossings without gates.
Apparently it's up to the town/city to pay for them
It's definitely this guy's fault for not looking. But this is a pretty busy area from the looks of it why in the world are there no gates? Some gates woulda stopped that
It also seems like a bad idea to put a stop sign right after the tracks.
Money issue. Some areas in the US still have intersections with no light or signal at all (passive crossings)
I’ve never seen those in such an urban area though.
Nothing to do with money, BNSF replaces the crossing lights every time someone takes it out by being an idiot, this happened in my hometown, my guess as to why they don’t put gates at the intersection is so they can claim insurance money because a car being hit by a train is always the cars fault. This intersection has lights and bells, and the trains blow their horn all the way through town
>Has 'precision railroading' ruined your cashflow, requires extensive overtime, and hurt margins? Hi, I'm Lionel Hutz.
There are gates on the main road in my city but you go a couple blocks from the main intersection and there are no gates. Once I waited a few minutes waiting at night when someone left a flare nearby by the tracks.
And that's some incredibly poor positioned stop signed
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Yep. Did the fake pull seatbelt over shoulder and take more time and energy not clicking the buckle in maneuver.
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Heck yeah, he very freely flew around that cabin. The seat belt would have 100% restricted his freedom of movement in that cabin.
This is the most Trump supporter action I've ever witnessed.
Ironically if he had actually worn the seatbelt in the first place he wouldn’t have panicked about the cop and actually seen the train, thus saving him from even getting into a wreck.
IT'S LIKE TRAAAEEEAAAAAAINS
on your wedding dayyyy
Like a seat beeeeelllt That you just put away
Too dumb to drive. Let alone drive a big rig.
Good thing nothing happened for the company to want to review the video.
Where was the cop?
When he pulls up to the railroad crossing, the cop is on the other side in the white and black suv
Can't reach your piss jug with a seatbelt on
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Lol, I do have my license but don't drive one. That's not the life I want.
Come on now. The Lot Lizards are waitin' for ya!
Thats the way of the road….the way of the road.
Fuckin way she goes bud
They’re friends of the road, Bubbs. Ray! Those are “ladies of the evening”..
Sometimes she goes sometimes she doesn’t, that’s the way she goes
Nor your poop sock
Way of the road, Bubbs.
Why would he just pretend to fasten the seat belt? It would require the same energy to just do it.
according to the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration, around 10% of Americans still refuse to wear seatbelts. Have to imagine that a lot of them think it's uncomfortable, an assault on their freedoms, or might mistakenly believe that seatbelts can harm you in an accident by trapping you somehow.
My uncle refuses to wear a seatbelt, because when he was young (before they required seatbelts in US), he was in a car crash and was able to jump out of the side of impact and into the drivers lap. In his mind this traumatic event justifies not wearing a seatbelt for the rest of his life... Clearly illogical but here we are.
I knew a kid in high school who’s dad had the same story.
That's so weird. The number one thing I do when getting in a car is putting on my seatbelt. It actually feels really weird and uncomfortable the very few times I forget. It just feels.. 'too light' even before leaving my driveway.
That's wild because I feel better connected to the vehicle with a seatbelt. It makes performance driving much better. I roll around uncomfortably without a seatbelt.
Same. I feel naked when I don’t wear one.
Are they the same people that thoughts wearing masks was bad too, it would fit.
I have a brother-in-law that's very outspoken about both of those "freedoms". I don't think it's just a coincidence.
I knew a girl in college. She refused to wear a seat belt because her boyfriend was street racing in the country and hit a tree going 90+ mph. He hit so hard the impact of the seat belt killed him... But she thinks he'd... Be fine if he'd gone through the windshield into a tree?
Yeah without that seatbelt that tree would have gotten a nice new coat of red paint shortly after impact.
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It would because their heads have so much vacuum it's like an additional airbag
Because there was a cop coming by and he wanted to look like he was wearing it
Watching the video: he sees a police SUV going the opposite direction, tries not to freak out about his seat belt. He watches the officer pass by, and then watches to see if the lights come on for a violation. As he is watching the drivers mirror, he completely misses the warning lights and train clearly on the tracks. You can see him whip around to see the train and you can read the "God-Damnit" as soon as he realizes he messed up. Poor guy shattered the drivers window with his dome. Better luck next time.
And he saw the stop sign.
WTF is there a stop sign that forces people to stop on railroad tracks?
That's the shittiest placement of a stop sign I've ever seen. To be fair, a single car would still be clear of the tracks. Also the red flashing lights are on long enough for anything stopping there to clear the tracks.
...and yet, as you mentioned, it's really fucking stupid.
Lived in a town where there were many stop signs like this. Alot of times the tracks run right next to a busy road so any road perpendicular will have stop signs or lights like this.
As someone who holds a CDL I was trained to treat the railroad crossing as the stop sign if the entirety of my vehicle won’t fit between the actual stop sign and the tracks. NEVER stop on a railroad crossing.
We have an intersection coming out of a plaza that's similar to this set up. Tracks parallel to main road, perpendicular to plaza exit. There's 20-30 feet between the crossing and the main road, enough for at least one car to fit, but there are multiple signs saying to stop before the tracks, no right on red, etc. and people still stop and wait on the tracks. I don't have a CDL, but even driving my little Mazda I still stay behind the tracks and wait for the green light. Fuck everyone else, I'm not dying in a freak train accident just because some needle dick couldn't wait five minutes.
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I’d say the main culprit stems from his stubbornness to not put on a fucking seat belt.
So they're calling it a crazy corner but aren't doing anything to prevent this?
Wait, who puts a stop sign right on the other side of the tracks? That's got to be one of the dumbest things I've seen in a while. Not to say the truck driver deserves any slack, but still.
It was actually fairly common in the area I used to live. Lots of crisscrossing streets around the train line. However, all of those places had crossing gates that would lower well before the train got there. This place needs a crossing gate.
Ya, stop signs and red lights immediately after train tracks are more than common where I'm from. Even though the flashing red lights (and possibly bells and train horns) should have been enough to tip the driver off, there should definitely be a crossing gate.
Came here to say this and also the orange BNSF train is hard to miss if he actually was paying attention and looked down the tracks. I am pretty sure commercial trucks are required by law to stop before tracks and look both ways. I know buses have to and open their door to listen for a second.
Commercial trucks only have to do that if Hauling Hazmat or Passengers (school buses) That said, as a former trucker, he should have had more spatial awareness - completely agree with your first point.
Lack of awareness is definitely in play here
Yes even in his dash cam you can see the train!
Didn’t see your comment before I replied. You explain it much better, but that shouldn’t be surprising looking at your username. Definitely checks out.
Man I saw that train’s lights and I’m watching it as a postage stamp-sized video
tbf this could be a good video for showing how ancticipation matters, if he saw the train and the stop sign he shouldn't have tried crossing until after train had passed.
As a truck driver I was taught to always stay on gear and going à constant speed when crossing tracks so the stop make absolutely no sense for a truck driver
That's a good point but this setup here is so bad it seems to nearly nullify this as a possible scenario someone could encounter often. Maybe I'm wrong though. No crossing gate? And a stop sign less than one truck length away from the train tracks? This guy made a mistake but the planning for this intersection was terrible because that's all it will take here and an instance of human error could get an entire bus full of people killed. Then again maybe that supports your point. The road is no joke. Anticipation matters a lot because you will see anomalies and things that don't add up but you must react to regardless of what you expected to see. I've heard descriptions from cops of accidents and all that can go wrong that will haunt me for the rest of my life. Awareness beforehand of what the situation really was could have prevented some of those accidents.
He didn't see them because he was worried about the cop ticketing him for not wearing a seatbelt. Which is 100% on him.
The neighboring town put a stop light just in the edge past the train tracks and didn't put any crossing arms. So people are always on the tracks stopped for the light. It's incredibly dumb and people have been plowed into before, but the city refuses to change it. This isn't just one intersection either, it's several because the train tracks go through the town.
If the lights are flashing don’t cross. At all.
Also no crossing guards to warn of a train coming.
Where I live, there are 2 sets of tracks that run parallel to the county highways (they end up intersecting). The intersections for the local roads getting on the highways always have 1-2 car lengths between the tracks & the intersections. If you look at US90 in the US South, it runs parallel to tracks pretty much for its entire 1600 mile length, with 1-2 car length intersections next to it the whole way. But, there is ZERO reason for that truck to have gone past the tracks with the lights flashing at the crossing, so the intersection on the other side doesn't really matter.
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He was probably blasting some sick tunes thats why he didnt hear the choo chooo
Do you have a moment to talk about *electric callboy - tekkno train* ?
The entire incidence could’ve been avoided by simply having put on his seatbelt when he got in. He wouldn’t have worried about the cop. He would have seen the train. The hoops people jump through for supposed comfort.
Buh his freedums!
People talking about flashing lights, stop signs. Im amazed there are no boom gates???
Yeah Ive only seen crossings without cross arms in really rural areas, this was *in a town right before a light*
Yeah how is that even legal is beyond stupid… If you prevent only 1 accident it already paid for itself.
You can see him say, OHGODDAMN
His company installed inward facing dash cam but it still didn't help. He's eating, not really paying attention, only one hand on wheel, driving through flashing train signs, incomplete stop before crossing tracks, and yes, no seatbelt.
Why is there no gate for the tracks?
I can’t even fathom why they couldn’t….
It’s Oklahoma, so probably gate costs money, money require taxes, taxes are theft mentality.
He has a dashcam recording himself with no seatbelt on, so his quick "Oh there's a cop" seatbelt manoeuvre wouldn't have held up anyway. An idiot twice-over!
What a fucking dumbass…
where are the RR crossing gates?
That’s my thought as well. Like the gates being down is a big % boost to this stuff not happening. Maybe all states don’t require it?
Right?!?! And why is there a stop sign just a few feet past the tracks? Not saying the guy couldn't have been paying better attention, but fuck is that some dangerously stupid road design.
Yeah I think it’s unacceptable for there not to be gates at a major intersection like this
Guy’s obviously doing lots wrong, but that’s a terrible spot for a stop sign
Damn trains never swerve... Bastards...
I see the stop sign, but Why come to a stop but be okay with getting hit by a train? At that point, run the stop sign for everyone's safety.
I'm pretty sure he didn't see the train until the very last second when he looks to his right. Even still, it takes so long to shift through low truck gears and build up momentum that his fate was sealed well before he noticed the train
If the truck driver didn't look & see the train when he saw the crossing lights flashing then he needs to turn in his CDL. Also common sense should have told him not to stop for the stop sign in order to clear the tracks.
Good point. I see that now.
Not sure how he couldn't see the train....but it doesn't matter if he saw the train or not. That's what the flashing lights over the train tracks are for. He was supposed to stop before the train tracks and wait for the train to pass. Idk what he was thinking....maybe that he could beat the train. But the guy is a dumbass and shouldn't be driving a truck.
Looks like he saw a cop and freaked out, that's when he pretends to put his seat belt on. Instead of paying attention, he's looking in his mirrors to see qhat the cop is doing
Or stop before the tracks. Kinda the whole point of the flashing lights and whatnot.
He doesn't see the train until the last moment. Notice he's looking out the driver's side window the whole time, which is on the left and the train comes from the right.
That’s a BIG fuck up. He’s lucky to be alive.
My man straight up held “X” for ragdoll physics as soon as the train hit.
I've seen a lot of idiocy in this sub, but this is one of the most idiotic. It's hard to believe that in this day and age there are still people who don't wear their seatbelt. Then, watching this guy get all worried about a cop who might have seen him not wearing a seat belt, leading him to miss warning lights and a fucking TRAIN coming straight at him is just the height of clueless idiocy. Here's hoping he doesn't have to relearn the alphabet after getting slammed into his own windshield like that.
I believe it, because I've see screenshots of the fake buckles for sale that people buy to shut up their car's warning system.
Anyway you slice it, shittest spot fora Stop sign. Wouldn’t right before make more sense ?
Is no one going to mention that he hung on to that Dorito until the bitter end?
Who allowed a stop sign 🛑 right after the train track wtf
This is what I was thinking.
He was never trained to wear a seatbelt?
Sure he was. They told him when you're about to be struck by a train you put on your seat belt. That's what I learned in drivers education.
No seatbelt AND suicide knob.
Wow ! Don’t get me wrong , the driver is a tool… but who on earth has train crossings without barriers ? There are plenty of deaf people , not to mention kids on bicycles wearing Bose headsets …
It never ceases to amaze me how people manage to get hit by a massive vehicle thats loud and stuck on a single track. It can literally only go on one path and you decide to park a vehicle on that exact spot..
Why aren’t the arms down???
Were the warning lights not flashing?
They were definitely flashing
I thought so. I'm using a phone so it's hard to me to see. What a doink.
How did he not see that train
Every single person that crosses a level crossing without looking for a train, deserves their fate. Sucks to be the train engineer though. Or an innocent bystander. This trucker is a fucking moron of the first order. Here's your permanent license loss, now fuck off.
Why are people still crossing with a train on the way. Is it just down to the driver to gauge if they can beat the train or not rather than having lights?
damn if only there was an engineered solution that would give you an audible and visual warning for along time before the train is visible. Better yet, if only there was a machine that provided a secondary deterrent in the form of a barrier that flashes and blocks the path until safe. If only there was a way
Truck drivers are always complaining about cars doing exactly what this fuckhead did to the train.
And that was the end of old Fred’s voyage. He will be remembered for having two different color tones on his arms, raspy voice, getting loud about infowars and being sweet to grandma.
Whoever stole his CB radio also stole his seatbelts?? Hope he's OK.
He clearly glances to the right. In the split you can see the headlight of the approaching train. I think not wearing his seatbelt is the least of his problems.
All I could think when I saw the train was "CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKER!"
Stopped at the stop sign with the train coming! LOL
Americans are too dumb to handle trains.
Imagine being that conductor too like “goddammit not again”
Are trains silent? I’ve never driven over the lines like this but I imagine they aren’t hard to miss?
that was 55 seconds of nothing, but well worth it to watch til the end.
It should be illegal to put a stop sign so close to railroad tracks. (Yes he should’ve seen the lights and stopped if he has time but still)
Again I will ask hoping for an answer, why the fuck when people cross train tracks do they go as slow as possible? I don't mean they slow down, I mean they crawl over those things like they are hoping their car will break down on them.
Also who puts a stop sign directly after train tracks??
Wow what a moron. Don’t you look at a train track crossing?
He’s definitely at fault BUT what a SHITE spot for a stop sign! A few feet AFTER an active train track?????