Close Call... Train Almost Strikes Vehicle Stuck On Tracks

[AndyJay15]

Lucky the train was travelling slow. If it was doing 45 then it most likely would have hit it.

[kev8338]

what was the car doing so far from the road anyways?

[LogWiz]

lucky

[kingtigertank]

what the hell was that guy doing? off roading? and it wasnt even a close call, the train stopped like 50ft away from the car of not more. close would be like 10ft

[ns3035]

how the hell did that guy get his car stuck that far down the tracks?

[PantherP74]

How is that a close call? Looks like the train was notified at least a mile or so back. There was zero danger, at that point, of there being a collision.

[MiNameIsNash]

Do you believe that the train enginner was notified a mile back??? So, why the train stop that close??? Maybe the danger was high...

[KD5XB]

BNSF Emergency Number: 1-800-832-5452

[stevesprinceofsteaks]

Not even close. lol

[TheDiscoZombie]

That was quite a quick stop, was the train equipped with velcro wheels or something?

[gebass6]

@TheDiscoZombie No.It was not going that fast to begin with.If a slow train hits the brakes it will NOT take a "mile" to stop.It's the same with a car.the faster it goes,the longer it takes to stop.The slower,the quicker it can stop.You should KNOW this.

[sdkfz7]

The train's brake dead !!!

[Ferronal3]

pfff!! por poquito! También la gente debe saber que no siempre saldra destruido el coche, siempre y cuando el maquinista vea la obstruccion y la distancia para detener el tren ( no siempre pasa así , dependiendo de la velocidad) pero deben hacer conciencia los conductores que no hay que onstruir el paso del tren, PARA NADA!!

[papabugs71]

I see. & someone just happened to have a camera to get it all on tape. How convenient.

My father was with the Oklahoma Hghway Patrol for 30 years & I have been with the railroad for nearly 10 years. This is not how it works, but if you say the call was made, well, then I guess it was made.

[djm448]

Yes, I was the cameraman. I was on the scene taking photos of the accident scene, and when we heard the train horn at a local crossing... i switched over to MOVIE mode on the camera to get footage of the collision. Want to see the other photos? I'd be more than glad to send em to you. About 20 minutes or so went by from time of page to train incident... i would hope you would trust us in notifying railroad on an incident like this...

[Videoengineer]

Also despite the efforts of both us as emergency personnel and our dispatch it is not always possible to get through to the operators. Things happen and usually right when the fit hits the shan. Don't be so quick to judge. Its not like we get a kick out of not calling the RR.

[sqhschief]

@djm448 Send them to me.

[VTATransitGuy]

You probably have a point about the call being / not being made, an area where I have NO experience whatsoever, but, I wouldn't attack the video on the fact that it seemed "convenient" for there to be a camera. I carry mine EVERYWHERE I go in a pouch on my belt. There are people who never leave home without it.

[CLayaway1]

I agree, most of the time i have my camera too, its too easy to bring em along, the sizes there making them these days

[papabugs71]

You can rest assured your dispatch did not call BNSF. This type of situation is considered a priority emergency. The moment you told BNSF your location, they would have been on the horn with the appropriate dispatcher. In turn, the dispatcher would have told all trains in the vicinity to stop immediately untill further instructed. I do this for a living & this kind of thing doesn't happen. It just doesn't. Thank god the crew was paying attention & had time to plug it.

[djm448]

and you can be rest assured that I as well as the supervisor on duty at the time with the police dept listened to the phone call that was placed to BNSF's emergency hotline.... the call WAS placed.

[robertgift]

I doubt they "plugged" yhe train.

Looked as though they were under speed and further slowed and stopped.

I hope they are ALWAYS paying attention for such things.

Reveal how it got there in (more info).

Elderly driver, or woman, hit gas instead of brake? Brake will overpower engine horsepower.

[robertgift]

1) Why do you not explain how it happened?

2) Why did you stop video at 0:43?

I do thank you for the speed information you provided.

[Surflliner458]

how in the hell did it get there!?

[bluebraids]

Originally posted by djm448 (1 year ago)

"The accelerator got stuck when the vehicle was put into drive. It had just backed out of a driveway at a house across the road (behind the camera)."

[robertgift]

Thanks blue.

DJM should have placed that information in the (info) area.

Who was idiot driver?

Brakes will overcome engine horsepower and stop the vehicle.

Also place in Neutral and turn OFF ignition.

Dumb driver stayed on accelerator instead of brake?

[B4its2L8guy]

I agree, I worked in an auto repair shop(10yrs) and every "accelerator stuck" situation, usually brought in by insurance companies, was from an "older" driver, =NFF. Brakes will overcome horsepower. Neutral will damage the engine, but the ignition trick ALWAYS works, and if you quick enough to turn the key back to the run, not start position, your steering won't lock.

[davidjaa]

well that was just fukin stupid the best part of the vid was 0:43 WHEN IT FUKING FINISHED!!!

[tetrisking92]

Attention Video Poster:

DELELTE THIS FUCKING VIDEO....that was the biggest waste of time since i tried measuring my dick with a metre ruler :)

[Pellaz2112]

@tetrisking92 Indeed. You might have better luck using a micrometer.

The reason why it's a close call is because the train was -- luckily! -- doing about 28 mph around that corner instead of track speed (45 mph). If he'd been moving at track speed, there's a really good chance he'd have plowed into that car. The difficulty of stopping a heavy freight goes up exponentially with increasing speed.

Go back to playing Tetris, kid.

[sqhschief]

@Pellaz2112 Linearly not exponentially.

[MicraHakkinen]

@sqhschief No, exponentially. Stopping distance increases exponentially with speed.

[sqhschief]

@MicraHakkinen  Ah, you're right.

[achristiansooner]

well that was a letdown

[ES44ACBNSF]

NOW THAT WAS CLOSE !

[Surflliner458]

no it wasnt

[funkyhenry]

He was being sarcastic

[JTyler52]

good thing the train wasnt going fast.

Its when the train is going to fast or the crossing track is just behind a corner or turn is when the strikes happen.

[papermateeeeee]

that wsnt close

[railmaniak]

;-))

[gazcivictyper]

that was not close

[BradFieldMan]

how and why did they get their car stuck like that?

[Pupille00X]

NOW THAT WAS CLOSE !

[jozez333]

yawn.

[Subaruguy8508]

thats doesnt happen that often......they are lucky he was going slow

[trumpetoneson]

he probably got the warning ahead of time. it takes a few minutes to fully stop a train. seeing as theyre fast and really massive. they have crazy momentum.

[backwindow]

yeah, train operators have a special frequency in radio, the police or someone MUST of had to contacted them.

[Hotshot679]

Okay, there's a police cruiser there, so they radioed railroad control and told the train to stop. Good thing.

[syatemofadown55]

scotty, and robbie cant u read "As a tow company attempts to remove a vehicle that crashed onto BNSF train tracks"

[scottybojangles]

i have to agree with robbie but incase u didnt notice him, WHY IS THE CAR EVEN THERE ITS NOT ATA CROSSING THATS WHAT WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON

[purpleroses00]

Why is it hung up on the tracks for no apparent reason and out of sight of any crossing? Simple. Woman driver.

[yourpageitsasheed]

jajajaja cool very emotion adrenalin

[conductorbill]

its called "dumping the air on the train".... place the train into emergency and you can stop a bit quicker... I KNOW!!!!!

[robbie5380]

why is the car even there?? its not a crossing

[hathwit7]

My mates drives locos and he has killed a few peps who try to scoot across before loco gets to crossing. His latest one was a woman in a 4x4 who stalled cos she was nervous. He didn't feel the impact and the car flew three stories up and landed in the middle of road which inturn caused another crash. Talk about killing two birds with one stone eh?

[unku]

Boring man.. why even call it a "close call"?

This is more like a "I almost had to buy a new car".

[people4people]

haha not even that, "I almost did something exciting today"

[unku]

woah, I got a lot of negative ratings.. lol.. I had just seen awesome close call videos (plenty of great ones).. then i saw this one, it made me yawn :P

[people4people]

haha maybe its the thought of what could have happened in very different sircomstances that excites the people who made this vid?

[unku]

oh I see where the close call was! [In the description] apparently the train just happened to be going slower than usual.. if it had been going faster it would not have slowed down in time. :)

[Carfreak4]

how did the car even get there in the first place! It was completely away from the road!

[7FP3]

His GPS was turned off... ;-)

[Carfreak4]

yea and his brain was on standby :)

[7FP3]

She would rather have a brain to do that tough! ;-)

[Carfreak4]

would have been so much better if the train struck the vehicle

[7FP3]

Yeah, the "hardest" way to know where you were! re ;-)

[theUP844]

that train was not CP. it was BNSF.

[aaron13133]

wow that CP has good brakes

[colbs33333]

thats not too close but still pretty... well... yeah...

[FARTYPANTS30]

Good train engineer... Good speed control...

[aikeno7777]

was he tryin to show off to his buddies by jumpin the track?? lol

[Stephenson18]

how in the hell do you get a car that far out on the damn tracks ?the train shoulda hit it and send a message to people who got it up there to teach a lesson

[CSXSD70M]

how the hell did that car get on the tracks?

[luki9875]

if i would be the driver i would speed up xD haha

[aaron13133]

idiot

[hairy19]

ohhhhh.... omg how stupid!

[hairy19]

i didnt get it

[Bellwestern80]

people can be such asshats.

[rvrjr7]

stupid 4 wheeler drivers everyone who gets a drivers liscense should be given a test on how to drive when trains and semis are around

[GreatRailwayJourneys]

Close call

[mafarnz]

If the train was only going 28mph in a 45mph speed zone then the message about the car did reach the train. It looked like they were going slow enough to avoid any obstructions on the tracks, which is what they did.

[negerpungrally2]

They probaly just had a wreck or something, people dont always act retarted around RR tracks

[heathfiedler]

yeah no shit.. trains always wins no matter how bad ass you think your shit is

[SkIttle2The0]

probably someone being retarded

[Derailedtrain666]

Lucky owners of that car the train ws only moving slow

[Hickthu06]

hahahahahahaha

[TKnHappyNess]

Did they ever say what happened that caused the vehicle to get stuck on the tracks?

[ortingdude]

Hmm, you were lucky. I work for a railroad, and it's RARE you get to talk to the actual dispatcher. Kinda like the police side, you usually get to talk to a call receiver and the info is passed on.

[djm448]

I am a 911 dispatcher and a train buff.. When I have an active emergency on the tracks, everytime I called the 800 number, and chosen "Option 1", he operator routed me to the dispatcher (we are in the Cuba Subdivision for BNSF, and the dispatcher dispatchers for River Sub, Thayer Sub, and something else)... Last time, I spoke with the dispatcher while a train stopped due to loose load that a deputy spotted. Very nice people.

[ortingdude]

Being that the railroad is dispatch from Fort Worth, TX for all of the US, it takes a while to notify. And ANY deviation of location whatsoever and the wrong trains are stopped. Who knows what happened here. And they use phone lines and VHF radios, not satellites.

[djm448]

Actually it does not take long... you get connected directly to the subdivision's dispatcher when calling the emergency number. The same lady that dispatch spoke to is the same lady that talked to the train crew.

[tombstoner79]

If he had been going fast, he could have never stopped in that distance.

[levi79]

Wow reminds me of hitting a car stuck on the tracks the same way only the guy was higher than a kite with his wife and baby on board luckly they jumped put just in time. Hopefully Big Bubba is boring him a new one for the next 5 to 10.

[rescue76]

So did ya hope over into the woods to clean out your shorts???

[djm448]

The accelerator got stuck when the vehicle was put into drive. It had just backed out of a driveway at a house across the road (behind the camera).

[robertgift]

The brakes should overpower the engine and transmission and stop the vehicle even if accelerator is stuck full open.

Did she depress the accelerator instead of the brake?

Engineer just happened to see her early and was moving slowly enough. Just a brake application, or full emergency?

[djm448]

No clue on the driver... Train was placed into full-blown emergency.

[dragon075]

i thought i heard the sound of full dymanics kicking in too... i'm sure the crew was giving it all she had!

[robertgift]

Also, someone should have placed flares far up the track in both directions so any train would slow to a safe, not emergency, stop. Then proceed at slow speed to within sight the vehicle.

[mrdquick]

Wow... I'm surprised with their satellite communications they didn't get the message sooner. Were the authorities further up the tracks that pre-warned him or is that a fair grade the train was on? Cool vid thanks for posting.

[djm448]

We were told that ALL train traffic was stopped, so nobody was up the tracks. I spoke with the train crew who said that there was a new dispatcher on-duty, and they had no clue.

[mikokat]

Aren't the dispatchers suppesed to be trained (No pun intended.) for this kind of thing?

[djm448]

Our dispatchers (the 911 dispatchers) did everything perfectly by the book. The ball was dropped by the railroad dispatcher.