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.

 

[rotate]

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

Try having an accident with three police cars, their fault not mine if you want an insurance nightmare, especially when the police officer who caused the accident was a drunk driver (DUI) and everyone involved is trying to cover it up, save for one extremely honourable Police Traffic Officer.

 

[Sobrbiker]

To to infer anything untoward or misogynistic, but the video I saw last week of that incident wasn’t blurred, and the “he” had all the outside trappings of a “she”.

I’m pretty sure there’s more than one way that SUV could’ve gotten out of the path.

 

[mortonbriar]

Just wow.

But also, do you get the feeling that rocket science is maybe heading this direction too?

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

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.

Yup, that’s a typical driver in the U.S. as well. Zero patience. I cycle a lot and try to stay on dedicated paths and side streets but damn it if I have the audacity to hold someone up for five seconds so they can safely pass around me. Got into a wild argument with a driver a few years ago who was pissed that I was in the bike lane…where I’m supposed to be. Like chill out. Unless there’s a medical emergency there’s no need to get so upset by having to wait a bit. The downside for cyclists like me is that we are not 400k pound locomotives so we will always lose to a car. I still go out and ride as often as I can though. It’s my moment of zen each day.

 

[sablebrush52]

An estimated 30% of licensed drivers lack the neuroconnectivity to competently operate their vehicles, the principle of which relate to an inability to be aware of and to assess environmental conditions, including surrounding traffic density, proximity, and behavior.

Here we have on display an example of the results when two such limited operators meet and greet. At the beginning the doomed SUV is rear ended by a pick up truck close following WAY too close. The driver of the SUV backs up to have a word with the driver of the truck, but pays no attention to where he is, leaving his SUV still sitting over the train track. The train barrels through, gives the SUV a glancing blow, resulting in a gratifying amount of damage.Hopefully the driver of the SUV will get priced out of further driving, reducing the danger to other drivers by an infinitesimal amount.

It is very much to be hoped that the driver of the truck, clearly incompetent in measuring environmental factors, will also be deprived of driving privileges to further protect the public.

 

[mortonbriar]

The train operator has clearly been drinking, you can see how he swerves just before he hits the car.

 

[renfield]

A few years ago a guy in a Cessna had just taken off, lost his engine and made a beautiful forced landing. Unfortunately he ended up on train tracks. A few minutes later a train demolished the plane.

 

[sablebrush52]

A few years ago a guy in a Cessna had just taken off, lost his engine and made a beautiful forced landing. Unfortunately he ended up on train tracks. A few minutes later a train demolished the plane.

Somehow, I don't see myself just standing on the street, close by, waiting to watch the piece fly by.