 This train was crashed on purpose, but it's probably not the reason you are thinking of. It's not being crashed to entertain or for a science experiment, but to reassure. You see this train is being crashed into something that's designed to carry nuclear fuel. The British public were a little bit concerned about trains carrying nuclear waste to sell a field for disposal. Well what a better way to show the reliability of the nuclear flasks, designed for the safe transportation of nuclear material than one big old crash. This would involve a 239 ton train running at 100 miles an hour into a flask on a test track on the 17th of July 1984. The result was a lot of people tuning in to watch the operation known as Smash Hit. And guess what? The flask survived. The train, not so much.