Rescue 911 - Episode 325 - "Truck vs. Train"

A man in a pickup truck is hit by a train when he races to catch a burglar at his store. This segment was taken from Episode 325, a special international episode, that aired on May 12, 1992.

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[1RadicalOne]

How did they get the footage of the collision? This was before CGI, and noone else was around to film the event...

[allgood2000]

@1RadicalOne It's mostly slick editing. Notice that in the shot where the train actually hits the truck, the truck is parked on the tracks with no one in it. I'm not sure how they got the shot right before that of the truck driving in front of the train; perhaps they green screened it or had the truck positioned at an angle were it only looked like it was in front of the train.

[14Waverider14]

yes let's grab the phone book to look up the number for 911...

[allgood2000]

Not all areas had 911 back then. In some places you had to dial a seven-digit number.

[ajaaniajaa]

Actually, being a railfan, An EMPTY 50foot boxcar weighs roughly 65,000 pounds or 33 tons (approx)....A loaded one weighs about 286,000 pounds or 133 tons (approx). That pickup weighs no more than 5,000 pounds. This train obviously has more than one boxcar, not to mention a locomotive (train engine that pulls the train cars) that weighs about 268,000 pounds....its obviously heavy and like they say "A TRAIN HITTING A CAR IS LIKE A BICYCLE HITTING AN EMPTY SODA CAN"

[JakeTube4]

a gate could of easily prevented this

[someone7974]

@pizzalover85 its simple you have about 500,000 tons moving at a advrage speed of 50 mi/per hr, it takes the train about a mile to stop...the one in the vid looked like it was only going thirty so it still didnt have time to stop and it was night so the engineer can only see as far as the headlights will go....

[jaffacake1578]

the fault of this accident was the level crossing, it should have at LEAST had flashing lights

[jaffacake1578]

@pizzalover85 because they are so heavy that the mass keeps forcing the train forward

[ShabogamoLakeRider]

@pizzalover85

Extreme Weight. And the weight pushed the train forward. Try spinning around with 30 pound weights, and trying to stop on a dime. (Spin around really fast with your arms spread witht the weights)...

[scorpianofthesun]

@pizzalover85 It takes an average freight train one mile to stop. If there's something in the way, it's going to get hit.

[vickiormindyb]

When I worked in California, one of the nurses told us a man tried to kill himself by walking in front of a train, and he was actually conscious when medics arrived on the scene. They brought him into ER on several gurneys.

The guy lived through getting hit by a train he walked in front of.

[SonicMarrio11]

Boy u sure are smart

[chadg7200]

was that an SP?

[chadg7200]

a frieght train rolling at 50 miles an hour takes aprox. 1 mile to come to a complet stop