Watching This Makes My Brain Hurt

[georged]

There's not being rocket science, and there's not being rocket science!!!

Train Collides With Vehicle Stationary On Crossing With No Injuries Sustained

A newly released video captures the dramatic moment a train collided with an SUV in Layton, Utah on February 4. Fortunately, the driver managed to escape j...

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[SBC]

At least he managed not to damage the level crossing signals behind him, by backing up more. That would have been much worse.

 

[brian64]

There's not being rocket science, and there's not being rocket science!!!

Train Collides With Vehicle Stationary On Crossing With No Injuries Sustained

A newly released video captures the dramatic moment a train collided with an SUV in Layton, Utah on February 4. Fortunately, the driver managed to escape j...

ark.media

It makes you wonder how someone that just plain stupid can be functioning in life at all. There was no barrier in front of him. How do you not just keep driving forward?

 

[Briarcutter]

I'm glad no one was hurt but yeah, why in the world did he just not go forward???? He had plenty of time. Geeze

 

[Briarcutter]

Never mind

 

[brian64]

I'm glad no one was hurt but yeah, why in the world did he just not go forward???? He had plenty of time. Geeze

The other weird thing is the manner both in which he backed up and walked away appears as though he wasn't panicked at all...seems very casual. Almost makes you wonder if it was intentional.

 

[Briarcutter]

The other weird thing is the manner both in which he backed up and walked away appears as though he wasn't panicked at all...seems very casual. Almost makes you wonder if it was intentional.

He was hit from behind and pushed through. Probably didn't realize he was still on the tracks and was going to get with the driver that hit him.

 

[beefeater33]

He was hit from behind and pushed through. Probably didn't realize he was still on the tracks and was going to get with the driver that hit him.

Good catch! I didn't see that when I first viewed the video........... what a mess!

 

[brian64]

He was hit from behind and pushed through. Probably didn't realize he was still on the tracks and was going to get with the driver that hit him.

Wow, I didn't notice that at all either. But it's still really dumb that he didn't drive on through.

 

[Briarcutter]

Good catch! I didn't see that when I first viewed the video........... what a mess!

Yeah, imagine the police report and they insurance nightmare! Calling......Briar Lee

 

[huntertrw]

Having worked for a manufacturer of locomotives, my guess is that one alone (not counting the consist behind it) weighed between 350,00 and 400,000 lbs. Further, although braking, it was probably traveling at least 40 miles-per-hour at the time of impact. I'll leave it to those here who are better at mathematics than I to calculate the destructive force exhibited in the video.

 

[Sigmund]

This reminds me of France...except the French driver would have kept going.

There are many incidents and deaths in France each year from people racing trains through crossings. They will boggie around barriers to do so.

The folks here will wait in line in a grocery store for absurd amounts of time but put them in a car and they simply get crazy. As you go south in Europe driving becomes increasingly wreckless. It doesnt help that there is almost a total lack of law enforcement. Defensive driving is not a concept they understand. Instead of assuming something IS in the area they cannot see they assume nothing is there. Traffic laws are literally suggestions.