The train came on the oppisite side of the tracks if he stayed where he was and didn't move forward he would have been fine...granted he was still on the tracks...there was no train on that side.
I've been driving an 18 wheeler for 35 years and haven't had any close calls with a train (yet). I have seen many rail crossings which the lights/bells initiate and the gates IMMEDIATELY drop, no warning at all. At low speeds, the truck can get "trapped" such as in this video. Compounding the problem could be traffic directly behind the truck. You have minimal time to assess the situation, many questions to answer. Can I see the train? How far away is it? How fast is it going? Very difficult to
He obviously saw the gates go down because the one side went down behind his truck and he tried to back up but couldn't then tried to get across really fast, it may have looked to him like the train was on the tracks he was sitting on in the beginning.
but in my line of work i'm the poor fucker who gets called out no matte what time of day or night depending what shifts i'm on to replace the front drivers screens after some ones chucked them self in front of it or after kids have lobbed bricks thru them!even a pigeon can seriously fuck up a trains windsheild(not nice)!
@mallardhead the trucker reversed just a little while trapped. if the trucker would've stayed just exactly where he was before he couldn't reverse anymore, this thing would've never happened. it had enough clearance from the tracks while "trapped reversing".
@mallardhead poor judgement pure and simple. I'm pretty sure a professional truck driver is aware that the horsepower available to him in his truck is capable of easily snapping a simple barrier like that.
@afrosamurai41 Yeah, but you'd never live to tell the tale unless you were EXTREMELY lucky in that sort of a crash. The trains around where i live don't weigh as much as this one, but you take a 350 ton freight train with three 6000 hp GE AC6000s for power and tell me whos going to win at 70 mph.
@Boss302fan Dude, a 350 ton train is a reality in some parts of the USA and a lot of Canada. Look up the video entitled "trains and idiots don't mix" here on youtube, and you'll see what i mean. Unit trains of double stack container cars, grain trains, or coal trains can weigh in excess of 300 tons fully loaded, and it takes more than a mile or more in some cases to fully stop one THAT heavy.
@Fireheart528 It's true dude. There are 350 ton trains. Very small ones though. Locomotive and a couple of cars maybe.
FYI...a loaded coal car weighs around 130 tons. Some more. 3 of these make your 350 tons and more. A heavy locomotive can easily weigh over 200 tons alone.
So not factoring in locomotives, the weight of a 100 car coal unit train consisting of 100 ton cars is going to be approx: 13,000 trailing tons. A bit more than 350. :>
@Boss302fan What we get around here is usually that weight, though I don't know exact weights. I know about weights of mainline trains and all, I just used that example from the downtown locals here in Brunswick, GA. Usually a GP40-2/GP38-2 with 6-9 boxcars bound for the seaport.
@Boss302fan Thnaks for the info. Like I said, I'm not too up to date on weights--I like reading about the history and looking at videos of trains more than figuring out weights.
@Fireheart528 Gotcha. Since I move the things for a living, I'll be the one to pay attention to weight! :> Although I'm a west coast guy, I have lots of friends railroading back east in the Brunswick, Savannah, Jacksonville area
BTW...the math I gave you should get you close. For most empties just estimate 30 tons. For loads 130 tons unless you know it is a light (or heavy) car.
It's not an exact science, but it can get you close.
@afrosamurai41 I rode with a train conductor who does these big trains and he said he hit a fucking car and didn't even realize it till someone Notified him some how. No a Human will not even scratch the paint neither will a fucking semi
@coolhandcanda obviously you don't know much about trains. to try to stop something that weighs that much, and is traveling that fast... that train probably didn't stop for a mile after hitting the brakes.
10 minutes away from were I live. Maple Ridge, British Columbia. It's happened a few times there. I remember driving by this one about 10 minutes after on my way home from work. It is the entrance to a lumber mill. Trucks have to stop and report into the office before driving in and some truck drivers have actually parked their trucks on the track. They even put a sign stating what should be the obvious, "Do not park on tracks". CN train, but it is the CP Rail mainline.
@coolhandcanada you clearly don't understand how difficult it would be to stop a train with that many carriages going that fast. Train looks like it's slowing down after the collision yet it's still going very fast.
I might be wrong, but it looks like this is what happened: obviously he wasnt paying attention or something, because he ended up on the other set of train tracks when he was supposed to be stopped. He then tried to back up but you can see he must have hit something, the truck stopped quickly. he probably couldn't see which tracks the train would be on, as it may have been around the corner, and decided the only way to get off the tracks is to go forward, not realizing how close the train was.
@Alecmueller123 actually they are pretty quiet, minus for them hitting the horn. you almost never hear a train coming unless it is already passing you. as for the driver, well the fucking dinging and the barriers dropped so he should have kept pushing on threw if he did not stop he would have had time to clear.
@analyzingfunny You seem to be good with numbers. What's the time between the *lights* coming on and the level-crossings coming down? I'd say the truck driver tried to race it, and lost.
@DevSolar He had already turned, onto the grade before the signal. He just panicked. But the point is, there should be a lot more time. At least 45 seconds. What is the national standard, Mr. Know it All?
@analyzingfunny I have no idea. But after twenty years of driving, including several years of driving trucks for a living, I know that anyone getting caught on a train crossing with the barriers down has not been paying attention.
@DevSolar Damn, man, You still dont get it. He had turned the corner, then the lights came on. He panicked. It is just that simple. This would not have happened if there were longer warning times. Not no fucking 12 seconds average bullshit.
@analyzingfunny OK, so he panicked. It should be comparatively easy to give back his driving license. "I panicked" might be OK if it's only property damage like here, but next time there might be people coming to harm.
@analyzingfunny I just checked the national standards. By the time the video starts, the warning lights and bells on that crossing had been running several seconds already. The driver simply did not pay attention until he saw the gates closing.
@analyzingfunny The 'standard' is going to be around 20 seconds. This is pretty much the case for most railroads around the world and not just the US, Mexico and Canada. Once you go longer people become far more inclined to just run the signals. In addition, communities themselves do not like to tie up the crossings any longer than necessary. Not saying it is right....just the way it is.
i personaly can not fathem the stupidty of jumping the lights. i dont live in an area of level crossings, we have bridges going over the tracks. but when i worked in London and Somerset last year, i had to use a level crossing everyday and I would slow down before crossing. maybe it's being paranoid but when the barriers are down and the lights are blaring, the last thing on my mind is to drive across to save a few minutes. people, like that mom who actullt raced the train derserve to die.
@0001Virus1000 of course not. it's a great shame that the kids had to be in the care of an absolute prat of a woman. but it's make her actions even more pathetic when she raced at those tracks, with the train right in her line of sight, and with her children in the car. a true pathetic scum of the human population. i just hope that the 2 who survived to live the rest of their lives with the burden of their stupid s**t mother's actions.
I can tell you the really sad thing, that train was chockers full of cheap shit from China. NYK Logistics containers are nothing but cheap clothes, electronics and other goodies. Don't buy Chinese shit, no train wreck.
I like how the truck driver slides off the road and pops his hood after getting hit so that other drivers know that he is experienceing difficulty and may need assistance. Thats safe driving. Well done sir.
@jasonsheil what are you talking about? you don't pop the hood of a semi from inside. it popped open as soon as it got it. there are little clips on the side of the cab that you unhook to pop a semi's hood.
@Formaniac13 Yes. I know. I watched the video. I have opened the front of several semis. I was merely being sarcastic. I guess youtube isnt the place for that then.
@jasonsheil what are you talking about? you don't pop the hood of a semi from inside. it popped open as a result of the accident. there are little clips on the side of the cab that you unhook to pop a semi's hood.
A train can only travel on train tracks. Why point out this obvious fact? To highlight that ANYONE WHO GETS HIT BY A TRAIN IS A FUCKING MORON. They are the easiest thing in the world to avoid, the only way to get hit by one is to get into the ONE path it can travel in. I call it natural selection.
@brivanas you sir are the most correct person in the world. I have always said that to be hit by a train means you have to be stupid enough to be on the train tracks when that "big loud fast thing" is coming by. it really is natural selection, natures way of picking off the thick-o's from the population. These idiots who jump the tracks when the lights are on and/or barriers down are saving a matter of minutes, but those who get hit and die get to arrive in the next life many years early. twats.
Yes..lack of intelligence for sure. Did you see that video of the mother trying to outrun the train in her minivan? Well not only did she came close to outrunning it and when she finally got to the tracks, she failed to see ANOTHER train coming in the opposite direction..She got hit by that one...THEN got hit by the train she was trying to outrun... Sad thing about it, she put her kids in harms way and they all died...
@brivanas If you look clearly at the video you'd see when the gates started to go down he was in the middle of the first track. He couldn't back up because the gate dropped behind his truck. He was also on a highway exit his only option was to drive through because there could be 2 trains going both direction and if you get the cab across the tracks there is a less chance of you going to die.
@Brandan09997 Ok first off...the lights are usually on a few seconds before the gates come down. Second, the train was on the second set of tracks. Even if he was stopped on the first, why not back up and break that gate, rather than move a slow ass truck with trailer across the second set of tracks, the set with THE ONCOMING TRAIN. Even if he could not back up, had he remained where he was, he would have avoided the train on the second set. Your logic is faulty at best, and absurd in reality.
@brivanas It actually look like he tried to backup. Maybe cars pulled behind him and prevented it. And again what if there another train coming in the other tracks sense there is 2 ya know.
First..it's "there ARE two", not "there IS two". And your "what if" is not relevant. There was no train on the first set of tracks, so why speculate. If there had been, then things would be different. But there wasn't, so that point is invalid and has no bearing on the actions taken by the driver in this particular instance.
@Brandan09997 Ah so you've resorted to name calling. A classic, mature tactic that wins any argument. The video proceeds for quite some time after the collision. Watch it. No train is ever present on the first set. It is obvious that I am wasting my time on an intellectual inferior so I will leave it at that.
@brivanas So is making fun of someone based on how they type on the internet is any better? How can you tell the train still blocks the view of the first tracks and its not like trains have to be in sync with each other where they have to hit the tracks crossing the tracks at the same time anyone with an IQ of 12 knows that. You have no proof to back that up or deny it also there is no other logical reason for him to cross the tracks unless he felt his life was endangered staying there.
@CrackinVTEC666 trains can go as fast as they want in crossings. that's why the IMPRUDENT DRIVERS SHOULD STOP when those bars come down and when hearing the 'train crossing bells'. i'm positive that if that asshole in the semi stayed in the position when he wanted to reverse, no damage had to be caused..
@CrackinVTEC666 I don't buy your argument. If this train had been doing 20 mph less it would not have mattered. They would have still hit the truck.
Should trains be limited to 20 mph at road crossings? 10 mph? 5mph?
The truck driver is the railroad's competitor. He can drive 60-70 mph in the US on freeways in and out among families in small cars with a much, much higher accident rate than railraods. Should we limit trucks to 30? 20? 10?
I see what happened now,look closly and you can see the crossing gate came down on top of his flat bed,he just panicked. Looked like the back of his trailer was sticking out in traffic.
@knutfheifer You are ridiculous and I stand by what I said on your statement being irrelevant . On that note, I really hope you were trying to be clever or something when you wrote/typed "americanian".
@Bitemyshinymetalass1 well we will agree to differ, but in actual fact I do agree with you as I was just winding you up all along, and I do like americans, or americanians as I put it lol, anyway happy new year
@Bitemyshinymetalass1 Yes, I was trying to be clever and did a most exsquitite job if you don't mind my say so too, it's nice to actually see someone show that they like my humour and I had to reply to your post after all the kindness that you have shown me, maybe some day we can meet the necromancer for a bunked up tuckey? Remember that every rainbow has a silver lining and glad that you are my friend, are you a trained american or a real naive to the lands?
@knutfheifer Ah, I see you felt the need to write me a paragraph over the internet. Hope you had a good time, I also hope you realize what a waste of time that was.
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He should have been patient. :D
CallOfDutyBoy321 3 months ago
I think truck's drive was alive ?
trongan91 4 months ago
Obviously some red neck driver with the competence of a Styrofoam cup.
ajpardi75 4 months ago
this is proof that drug babies should be abortioned
xxxR4MB0xxx 4 months ago
@xxxR4MB0xxx just not funny
clownstangler 4 months ago
Truckers are fuckers..... even on the roads they act like assholes
sswemmer 5 months ago
WHAT A MORON!!!!! at that time, he could just go reverse!!
creap32 5 months ago
Back up and break the barrier... much cheaper option.
mr2gti 5 months ago
serves that asshole right for not stopping.
SteelCity1981 5 months ago
Trains are outdated and serve no purpose,so scrap all of them and the rails they ride on. Problem solved.
Rebelwon 5 months ago
Bet that wakened him up.
normken 5 months ago
that must of been loud as hell
mattxXx13 5 months ago
What was that guy thinking? He stops, then he pussyfoots across, just right to get hit...?
O_o
randommagnum 6 months ago
Way to go,fellow truckdriver. Its dumb shitbags like this that reinforce the ignorant truckdriver stereotype. Bravo asshole
Roadhammer379x 6 months ago
The train came on the oppisite side of the tracks if he stayed where he was and didn't move forward he would have been fine...granted he was still on the tracks...there was no train on that side.
BloodyRosesx 6 months ago
dumb ass should of stayed right where he was at
crwjckss18 6 months ago
He should have stood still when the barrier came down on the truck.
istvanklein 6 months ago 4
this is not the biggest dumbass i know, goes right on top of the list
planbsk8er385 6 months ago
Straight up, don't drive around gates.
smallcenter 6 months ago
Dumb shit. Those gates aren't that strong. Drive though it if you must.
SuburbanDon 6 months ago
Dumb shit.
SuburbanDon 6 months ago
I've been driving an 18 wheeler for 35 years and haven't had any close calls with a train (yet). I have seen many rail crossings which the lights/bells initiate and the gates IMMEDIATELY drop, no warning at all. At low speeds, the truck can get "trapped" such as in this video. Compounding the problem could be traffic directly behind the truck. You have minimal time to assess the situation, many questions to answer. Can I see the train? How far away is it? How fast is it going? Very difficult to
BornTooLoose 6 months ago
MEXICAN TRUCK DRIVER!!!!
chris03653837 6 months ago
asi son los gringos... de pendejos
Alexis0175 6 months ago
dumb fucken trucker. i hope he got hurt from that.
zackis480 6 months ago
0:22
td234100 6 months ago
i dont know is this that situation where the driver woman was!
gatojurko 6 months ago
if that truck driver set off from work 4 seconds earlier, he would have been killed.
guppy818 6 months ago
That was on the tv show worlds dumbest look it up on youtube type in worlds dumbest motorheads 3
pitt1292 6 months ago
that won't look good on a resume
john6218att 7 months ago
very cool
Germy20111 7 months ago
You may be king of the road but we rule the rails.
awsem1o1 7 months ago
He obviously saw the gates go down because the one side went down behind his truck and he tried to back up but couldn't then tried to get across really fast, it may have looked to him like the train was on the tracks he was sitting on in the beginning.
nooblarg 7 months ago
The gate had been down for several seconds. The truck driver must have been completely oblivious.
vroomba03 7 months ago
it"s was a set-up.....the train never stop after the collision.....
roneyrozali 7 months ago
@roneyrozali Trains take more than a mile to stop idiot. Not a set up at all. Common sense
RazorbackV13 7 months ago
Shit..
TokeyMcSmokeyy 7 months ago
It's a train, Dewey, not a chipmunk!
peterandben 8 months ago 9
@peterandben unstoppable ???
MrMikejosh 5 months ago
@MrMikejosh Yep
peterandben 5 months ago
dumb ass!!!
MrFilmMakerNumber2 8 months ago
the truck driver must have been one stupid twat. A truck can never have so much horsepower as afreight train.
hommedterre 8 months ago
@hommedterre What does the horsepower available to the truck driver vs the horsepower available to the engineer have to do with this video?
Boss302fan 7 months ago
THE END OF OPTIMUS PRIME..:P
MrShreyz 8 months ago
Train - 1 Truck - 0
RemBot2000 8 months ago
Talk about atking your time. Do people even look both ways before they move?
pkrska 8 months ago
ripped....
shiburai 8 months ago
Did anyone else realize that if the truck driver had stayed where he was when the bar went down, he would've have gotten hit?
LindsayPoyser 8 months ago
wow stupid people
alexpok14 8 months ago
Train 1 truck 0
vampirehunterXD 8 months ago
Well thank goodness the driver didn't get squashed?
DimLightable 8 months ago
the bar comes down that means stop dumbass its drivers like this that give us truckers a bad rep
wequan 9 months ago
not disagreeing with you on that 1 buddy!
but in my line of work i'm the poor fucker who gets called out no matte what time of day or night depending what shifts i'm on to replace the front drivers screens after some ones chucked them self in front of it or after kids have lobbed bricks thru them!even a pigeon can seriously fuck up a trains windsheild(not nice)!
afrosamurai41 9 months ago
Wow! The drop bars trapped him from backing up!
mallardhead 9 months ago
@mallardhead the trucker reversed just a little while trapped. if the trucker would've stayed just exactly where he was before he couldn't reverse anymore, this thing would've never happened. it had enough clearance from the tracks while "trapped reversing".
Pseudofedrina 9 months ago
@Pseudofedrina
I saw that, but I bet, in the panic of the moment, the driver thought he was on the same track as the train.
mallardhead 9 months ago
@mallardhead Bars are made to break away. He wasn't "trapped"
Boss302fan 7 months ago
@Boss302fan
poor judgment then ... or ignorance of that fact.
mallardhead 7 months ago
@mallardhead poor judgement pure and simple. I'm pretty sure a professional truck driver is aware that the horsepower available to him in his truck is capable of easily snapping a simple barrier like that.
Boss302fan 7 months ago
bloody damn!!!
aaryan669 9 months ago
most trains travel upto speeds of 180 - 200 mph on a good run!
even at 80 mph a human body can do serious damage to the front of a loco!
afrosamurai41 9 months ago
@afrosamurai41 Yeah, but you'd never live to tell the tale unless you were EXTREMELY lucky in that sort of a crash. The trains around where i live don't weigh as much as this one, but you take a 350 ton freight train with three 6000 hp GE AC6000s for power and tell me whos going to win at 70 mph.
Fireheart528 9 months ago
@Fireheart528 350 ton train? huh?
Boss302fan 7 months ago
@Boss302fan Dude, a 350 ton train is a reality in some parts of the USA and a lot of Canada. Look up the video entitled "trains and idiots don't mix" here on youtube, and you'll see what i mean. Unit trains of double stack container cars, grain trains, or coal trains can weigh in excess of 300 tons fully loaded, and it takes more than a mile or more in some cases to fully stop one THAT heavy.
Fireheart528 7 months ago
@Fireheart528 It's true dude. There are 350 ton trains. Very small ones though. Locomotive and a couple of cars maybe.
FYI...a loaded coal car weighs around 130 tons. Some more. 3 of these make your 350 tons and more. A heavy locomotive can easily weigh over 200 tons alone.
So not factoring in locomotives, the weight of a 100 car coal unit train consisting of 100 ton cars is going to be approx: 13,000 trailing tons. A bit more than 350. :>
Boss302fan 7 months ago
@Boss302fan What we get around here is usually that weight, though I don't know exact weights. I know about weights of mainline trains and all, I just used that example from the downtown locals here in Brunswick, GA. Usually a GP40-2/GP38-2 with 6-9 boxcars bound for the seaport.
Fireheart528 7 months ago
@Fireheart528 Weights are weights. A car load of coal weighs 130 tons in Brunswick and 130 tons in Los Angeles.
OK..let's take a 9 car train of 70 ton boxcars and a light road switcher.
Locomotive: 200 tons
7 boxcars 700 tons
Train Wght 900 tons
So again, even for very small trains you are way under in your weight estimate.
Boss302fan 7 months ago
@Boss302fan Thnaks for the info. Like I said, I'm not too up to date on weights--I like reading about the history and looking at videos of trains more than figuring out weights.
Fireheart528 7 months ago
@Fireheart528 Gotcha. Since I move the things for a living, I'll be the one to pay attention to weight! :> Although I'm a west coast guy, I have lots of friends railroading back east in the Brunswick, Savannah, Jacksonville area
BTW...the math I gave you should get you close. For most empties just estimate 30 tons. For loads 130 tons unless you know it is a light (or heavy) car.
It's not an exact science, but it can get you close.
Boss302fan 7 months ago
@afrosamurai41Those trains don't go anywhere near 180mph. I see your point though.
MrPeteEa 9 months ago
@afrosamurai41 I rode with a train conductor who does these big trains and he said he hit a fucking car and didn't even realize it till someone Notified him some how. No a Human will not even scratch the paint neither will a fucking semi
14omega28ok 9 months ago
@coolhandcanda obviously you don't know much about trains. to try to stop something that weighs that much, and is traveling that fast... that train probably didn't stop for a mile after hitting the brakes.
MrFloydFix 9 months ago
is the guy ok?
348frank348 9 months ago
@348frank348 Yes, from all crashes that have taken place there, I don't think there has ever been a fatality or even a serious injury.
SilverstoneZED 9 months ago
10 minutes away from were I live. Maple Ridge, British Columbia. It's happened a few times there. I remember driving by this one about 10 minutes after on my way home from work. It is the entrance to a lumber mill. Trucks have to stop and report into the office before driving in and some truck drivers have actually parked their trucks on the track. They even put a sign stating what should be the obvious, "Do not park on tracks". CN train, but it is the CP Rail mainline.
SilverstoneZED 10 months ago
That train should of stoped, truck was there first. The damn conductor didn't even try stopping.
coolhandcanada 10 months ago
@coolhandcanada you clearly don't understand how difficult it would be to stop a train with that many carriages going that fast. Train looks like it's slowing down after the collision yet it's still going very fast.
joshy444 10 months ago
@joshy444 I smell bullshit.
coolhandcanada 10 months ago
I might be wrong, but it looks like this is what happened: obviously he wasnt paying attention or something, because he ended up on the other set of train tracks when he was supposed to be stopped. He then tried to back up but you can see he must have hit something, the truck stopped quickly. he probably couldn't see which tracks the train would be on, as it may have been around the corner, and decided the only way to get off the tracks is to go forward, not realizing how close the train was.
Vball2718 10 months ago
No more Flat bed.
twiligth003 10 months ago
bet the knob got fired.
fj9fl 10 months ago
i guess rather than being caught with the cross arm lowered down onto his/her trailer they decided its better to pull out in front of train?
looks like they had a clear view of what was coming.
AndrewJ254 10 months ago
this looks alot like maple ridge ??
zackjp 10 months ago
@zackjp Yup, 287th and Lougheed. It's happened a few times there.
SilverstoneZED 10 months ago
because it's always a good idea to play chicken with a train
liamliam123456 10 months ago
Another thing. You may not see but there's another pairs of rails in the railroad crossing, I guess that's why he tried to make it.
MegaZsolti 10 months ago
A stack train hitting you at 55 mph. Worst case I guess xD
MegaZsolti 10 months ago
What a stupid man.
TudorRose85 10 months ago
"and he didn't spill his beer"
baaddwrench 10 months ago
Driver:Hmm Crosses going down.
Train:There you go back up.
Driver: I'm going across...
Train: Why the hell!?!??!!?
Driver: HA made it across
Train Oh well DIE!!!
methos319 10 months ago
stupid fat ass trucker
cjhicko13 11 months ago
Thumbs up if you waited for the train to stop
TheWabafet 11 months ago
Idiot was safe where he was THEN he pulls into the train' path. DUH.
Daehawk 11 months ago
I don't care if there's lights or not, how the he'll do you not see a fucking TRAIN coming?! There not exactly small and quiet.....
Alecmueller123 11 months ago 35
@Alecmueller123 actually they are pretty quiet, minus for them hitting the horn. you almost never hear a train coming unless it is already passing you. as for the driver, well the fucking dinging and the barriers dropped so he should have kept pushing on threw if he did not stop he would have had time to clear.
Baseshocks 7 months ago
The king of the road just got pwned by KING OF THE LAND VEHICLES...
scott93257 11 months ago
No, you haters. Look deeper into this. They average time from signal to train is 12 seconds in most rural regions in America.
This should have never happened. He was on the crossing when the signals came on.
Then he just panicked and felt trapped in the crossing.
analyzingfunny 11 months ago
@analyzingfunny You seem to be good with numbers. What's the time between the *lights* coming on and the level-crossings coming down? I'd say the truck driver tried to race it, and lost.
DevSolar 11 months ago
@DevSolar He had already turned, onto the grade before the signal. He just panicked. But the point is, there should be a lot more time. At least 45 seconds. What is the national standard, Mr. Know it All?
analyzingfunny 11 months ago
@analyzingfunny I have no idea. But after twenty years of driving, including several years of driving trucks for a living, I know that anyone getting caught on a train crossing with the barriers down has not been paying attention.
DevSolar 11 months ago
@DevSolar Damn, man, You still dont get it. He had turned the corner, then the lights came on. He panicked. It is just that simple. This would not have happened if there were longer warning times. Not no fucking 12 seconds average bullshit.
analyzingfunny 11 months ago
@analyzingfunny OK, so he panicked. It should be comparatively easy to give back his driving license. "I panicked" might be OK if it's only property damage like here, but next time there might be people coming to harm.
DevSolar 11 months ago
@analyzingfunny I just checked the national standards. By the time the video starts, the warning lights and bells on that crossing had been running several seconds already. The driver simply did not pay attention until he saw the gates closing.
DevSolar 11 months ago
@analyzingfunny The 'standard' is going to be around 20 seconds. This is pretty much the case for most railroads around the world and not just the US, Mexico and Canada. Once you go longer people become far more inclined to just run the signals. In addition, communities themselves do not like to tie up the crossings any longer than necessary. Not saying it is right....just the way it is.
Boss302fan 11 months ago
Did the trucker die?
sandyhembree 11 months ago
THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN UR BEING A FUCKWIT!
InGoodNick1973 11 months ago
What a dork!
XxAcexMetalxFreakxX 11 months ago
lol wasn't even close
buffaloborn71 11 months ago
Imagine this moron is a bus driver!
001FJ 11 months ago
some truck drivers should learn how to "stay in position"... I hope videos like this will give them a clear idea.
deimos2k6 11 months ago
i personaly can not fathem the stupidty of jumping the lights. i dont live in an area of level crossings, we have bridges going over the tracks. but when i worked in London and Somerset last year, i had to use a level crossing everyday and I would slow down before crossing. maybe it's being paranoid but when the barriers are down and the lights are blaring, the last thing on my mind is to drive across to save a few minutes. people, like that mom who actullt raced the train derserve to die.
QullVideo 11 months ago
@QullVideo but her children did not.
0001Virus1000 11 months ago
@0001Virus1000 of course not. it's a great shame that the kids had to be in the care of an absolute prat of a woman. but it's make her actions even more pathetic when she raced at those tracks, with the train right in her line of sight, and with her children in the car. a true pathetic scum of the human population. i just hope that the 2 who survived to live the rest of their lives with the burden of their stupid s**t mother's actions.
QullVideo 11 months ago
FAILS ALL ROUND
funnylittlegirl12345 11 months ago
clearly a case of natural selection
dportass 11 months ago
Nice International tractor too...
Redlod79 11 months ago
always remember that u might have a trailer behind u
KevinRobots 11 months ago
holy mother of shiat
fenixans 11 months ago
dumb redneck is dumb
wickedpissa25 11 months ago
That's some natural selection right there.
murdocsvan 1 year ago
Ouchy.
LuisSuarez93 1 year ago
must be hard to exchange insurance details with something travelling that fast...
bidefordrfc 1 year ago
This guy gets my "DUMB ASS OF THE DAY" award
yendor1232 1 year ago
I can tell you the really sad thing, that train was chockers full of cheap shit from China. NYK Logistics containers are nothing but cheap clothes, electronics and other goodies. Don't buy Chinese shit, no train wreck.
CzechDetectingChap 1 year ago
I like how the truck driver slides off the road and pops his hood after getting hit so that other drivers know that he is experienceing difficulty and may need assistance. Thats safe driving. Well done sir.
jasonsheil 1 year ago
@jasonsheil what are you talking about? you don't pop the hood of a semi from inside. it popped open as soon as it got it. there are little clips on the side of the cab that you unhook to pop a semi's hood.
Formaniac13 1 year ago
@Formaniac13 Yes. I know. I watched the video. I have opened the front of several semis. I was merely being sarcastic. I guess youtube isnt the place for that then.
jasonsheil 1 year ago
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@jasonsheil what are you talking about? you don't pop the hood of a semi from inside. it popped open as a result of the accident. there are little clips on the side of the cab that you unhook to pop a semi's hood.
Formaniac13 1 year ago
A train can only travel on train tracks. Why point out this obvious fact? To highlight that ANYONE WHO GETS HIT BY A TRAIN IS A FUCKING MORON. They are the easiest thing in the world to avoid, the only way to get hit by one is to get into the ONE path it can travel in. I call it natural selection.
brivanas 1 year ago 65
@brivanas Very true. Well said :)
xP2K92x 1 year ago
@brivanas you sir are the most correct person in the world. I have always said that to be hit by a train means you have to be stupid enough to be on the train tracks when that "big loud fast thing" is coming by. it really is natural selection, natures way of picking off the thick-o's from the population. These idiots who jump the tracks when the lights are on and/or barriers down are saving a matter of minutes, but those who get hit and die get to arrive in the next life many years early. twats.
QullVideo 11 months ago
@brivanas
Yes..lack of intelligence for sure. Did you see that video of the mother trying to outrun the train in her minivan? Well not only did she came close to outrunning it and when she finally got to the tracks, she failed to see ANOTHER train coming in the opposite direction..She got hit by that one...THEN got hit by the train she was trying to outrun... Sad thing about it, she put her kids in harms way and they all died...
scott93257 11 months ago
@brivanas LOL ... so true !!
michaeldublg 10 months ago
@brivanas If you look clearly at the video you'd see when the gates started to go down he was in the middle of the first track. He couldn't back up because the gate dropped behind his truck. He was also on a highway exit his only option was to drive through because there could be 2 trains going both direction and if you get the cab across the tracks there is a less chance of you going to die.
Brandan09997 7 months ago
@Brandan09997 Ok first off...the lights are usually on a few seconds before the gates come down. Second, the train was on the second set of tracks. Even if he was stopped on the first, why not back up and break that gate, rather than move a slow ass truck with trailer across the second set of tracks, the set with THE ONCOMING TRAIN. Even if he could not back up, had he remained where he was, he would have avoided the train on the second set. Your logic is faulty at best, and absurd in reality.
brivanas 7 months ago
@brivanas Fuck up your company's truck or get a fine....
Brandan09997 7 months ago
@Brandan09997 I dont think you can fuck up a truck much worse than this driver did. And I'm quite sure he was fined as well.
brivanas 7 months ago
@brivanas It actually look like he tried to backup. Maybe cars pulled behind him and prevented it. And again what if there another train coming in the other tracks sense there is 2 ya know.
Brandan09997 7 months ago
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Brandan09997 7 months ago
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First..it's "there ARE two", not "there IS two". And your "what if" is not relevant. There was no train on the first set of tracks, so why speculate. If there had been, then things would be different. But there wasn't, so that point is invalid and has no bearing on the actions taken by the driver in this particular instance.
brivanas 7 months ago
@Brandan09997 Ah so you've resorted to name calling. A classic, mature tactic that wins any argument. The video proceeds for quite some time after the collision. Watch it. No train is ever present on the first set. It is obvious that I am wasting my time on an intellectual inferior so I will leave it at that.
brivanas 7 months ago
@brivanas So is making fun of someone based on how they type on the internet is any better? How can you tell the train still blocks the view of the first tracks and its not like trains have to be in sync with each other where they have to hit the tracks crossing the tracks at the same time anyone with an IQ of 12 knows that. You have no proof to back that up or deny it also there is no other logical reason for him to cross the tracks unless he felt his life was endangered staying there.
Brandan09997 7 months ago
there is NO WAY to stop a train in 3 seconds and in 50 meters..
Pseudofedrina 1 year ago
train should never have been going that fast through a crossing
CrackinVTEC666 1 year ago
@CrackinVTEC666 trains can go as fast as they want in crossings. that's why the IMPRUDENT DRIVERS SHOULD STOP when those bars come down and when hearing the 'train crossing bells'. i'm positive that if that asshole in the semi stayed in the position when he wanted to reverse, no damage had to be caused..
Pseudofedrina 1 year ago
@CrackinVTEC666 And why is that?
Boss302fan 1 year ago
@Boss302fan for the exact reason you see here
CrackinVTEC666 1 year ago
@CrackinVTEC666 I don't buy your argument. If this train had been doing 20 mph less it would not have mattered. They would have still hit the truck.
Should trains be limited to 20 mph at road crossings? 10 mph? 5mph?
The truck driver is the railroad's competitor. He can drive 60-70 mph in the US on freeways in and out among families in small cars with a much, much higher accident rate than railraods. Should we limit trucks to 30? 20? 10?
Boss302fan 1 year ago 3
@Boss302fan obviously we should
EldestSauce 7 months ago
LOL that truck got fucking owned
reptilelover666 1 year ago
This is pure redneck stupidity at its' best. WATCH and LEARN !
throttlehard 1 year ago
I see what happened now,look closly and you can see the crossing gate came down on top of his flat bed,he just panicked. Looked like the back of his trailer was sticking out in traffic.
vikings844 1 year ago
what was he thinking
vikings844 1 year ago
thats a lot more g-force or whatever on the driver than it looks
RPsheep 1 year ago
Wow, some truckdriver needs to lose his job, what a dumbass.
1fordman2011 1 year ago
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wow that was a big accident
adahead 1 year ago
wow that was a big accident
adahead 1 year ago
Why are they always cut videos like this ? I'd like to look at driver of semi-truck - his reaction and maybe interview
Boom7fly 1 year ago
never underestimate the power of stupidity.
surfandsand2 1 year ago
im telling u boss, the trailer was on there when i left!
RoadworkCallum45 1 year ago
He who hesitates loses.
sjtom57 1 year ago 37
@sjtom57 He who falls into dormancy loses too. :)
Bitemyshinymetalass1 1 year ago
@Bitemyshinymetalass1 the problem with this accident is that the driver was americanian
knutfheifer 1 year ago
@knutfheifer Irrelevant?
Bitemyshinymetalass1 1 year ago
@Bitemyshinymetalass1 not at all, just natural that americans are visually and mentally impaired thats all
knutfheifer 1 year ago
@knutfheifer And how does what your saying have anything to do with my clever retake of an old saying?
Bitemyshinymetalass1 1 year ago
@Bitemyshinymetalass1 a lot, go and try to think about it, thanks
knutfheifer 1 year ago
@knutfheifer You are ridiculous and I stand by what I said on your statement being irrelevant . On that note, I really hope you were trying to be clever or something when you wrote/typed "americanian".
Bitemyshinymetalass1 1 year ago
@Bitemyshinymetalass1 well we will agree to differ, but in actual fact I do agree with you as I was just winding you up all along, and I do like americans, or americanians as I put it lol, anyway happy new year
knutfheifer 1 year ago
@Bitemyshinymetalass1 Yes, I was trying to be clever and did a most exsquitite job if you don't mind my say so too, it's nice to actually see someone show that they like my humour and I had to reply to your post after all the kindness that you have shown me, maybe some day we can meet the necromancer for a bunked up tuckey? Remember that every rainbow has a silver lining and glad that you are my friend, are you a trained american or a real naive to the lands?
knutfheifer 1 year ago
@knutfheifer Ah, I see you felt the need to write me a paragraph over the internet. Hope you had a good time, I also hope you realize what a waste of time that was.
Bitemyshinymetalass1 1 year ago