Level Crossings: Motorists

[minibus9]

interesting, hope its gets the message through

[TheLeafhopper]

And my parents only told me not to play with matches...

[Joshie7797]

so the advert said - don't play with trains

my 3 year old cousin cried over his train set

[emochiken99]

ouch

[Joshie7797]

0:39 MUUUUUM I DIED A VIRGIN!

[AmyRoseCute]

Where's Superman when you need him?!

[sk8erhawk360]

I'm a conductor and locomotive engineer on one of the Canadian railways. We nearly hit a woman stopped in traffic, in her vehicle, on a road crossing at 50 MPH. Luckily, we were able to stop short. If you're in this situation, GET OUT and run along the track towards the train, waving your arms crosswise.

[simon726]

Level crossing - don't run the risks!

[HabboRockz123]

omg im crying with the last bit OMG thats so sad thats a mothers nightmare.

[h3ll0b0b]

The crossing lights don't come on that late, but still, very well done ad, go the punchline!

[andymerrett]

Yeah, in the UK at least you definitely have a LOT of time to sort yourself out, and also on tracks with four gates it's the whole reason the front gates come down before the rear ones.

As a kid I used to be quite scared of the yellow and red flashing lights at our local level crossing -no idea why. It was in a daft place very close to a T junction (actually nearly all the level crossings in Worthing were) which meant it was more feasible someone might get stuck because they were queueing.

[KingCon636]

that was blody scary

[PeterKaneva111]

BEST BIT: I don't really know.

WORSE BIT: Mum with children getting hit.

[iluvyurbles]

I know she should have backed up or flor it

[samuraiali]

A lot of governments model their road safety videos on these aussie ones, including all the Think ones we have in the UK (remember the girl who got hit at 40? nasty).

But yeah, why didn't the focus driver reverse through the barrier? Clearly doable.

[computersmasher]

thre was a gate, but she could have very easily gotten off the tracks i agree with you

[m715fm]

It is called panic and many people freeze in the sight of danger. It always looks easier from the comfort of out computer desk. Australia made some great videos.

[lt1caprice57l]

That's gotta be the most haunting PSA clip I've ever seen. They NEED to run that in the US, far too many idiots stop on the tracks here.

[squishy3000]

@lt1caprice57l Same in Britain. It's crazy to think that some people actually zig-zag through the barriers

[Rosiedea]

This is really quite scary. It's the sort of thing we should have in the UK.

[boomersooner202]

i feel sorry for them

[boomersooner202]

why didn`t they either get out or back up?

[electrogeek77]

So haunting.