Might be they have no depth perception or no idea how long the car is.... But if that's the cases they should never have gotten in the drivers seat in the first place.
"Brakes on" doesn't really mean much in this context, they take a good while to actually do something. Trains are long, air pipes have a good bit of flow resistance. Better now than they used to be, but you still need to plan minutes ahead.
Excuse my language but holy shit.Stop doing this to our train crews people, the trains are bigger than you so you're not going to win but then the crew has to pick up your pieces. Just stop it.
I worked on British rail for nearly 50 years and our greatest worry was interaction with the general public. People just don't understand how dangerous a railway is !
I don't get it. The gates were down, bells were ringing, engineer whistled, what did the driver not understand? Better, HOW did the driver not understand?
I'll give em benefit of the doubt, and assume they were in a line of traffic at the intersection, the barrier arm dropped on top of their car and they panicked and froze 🤷♂️ at least they came to their senses and backed off the crossing just in time!
I really have no sympathy for people who make brainless decisions at train crossings. The person was trying to push the gate up and out of their way with their car while they could probably see and definitely hear the train coming because they’re too impatient to wait. I mean do they have a death wish? The Darwin Awards never end
In fairness to the person, my take on it (after watching the video a lot of times) is that they were probably stopped too far onto the crossing in a queue of traffic at the intersection, the barrier came down on their car and they panicked and froze. There was no evidence of them pushing up once they came into view, and I haven't seen any other POV.
Had so.eone panic when the alarms came on down south one evening and skid onto the crossing in front of me. They backed up clear of the rail bit, not the arms, and one ended up resting on the roof, giving everyone a hell of a fright. Those days stick with the LE for sure.
@@dl9786-kr Saw the same thing in Utah with a Women who did the same thing but the silly thing keep on going , luckily I caught it on Camera and posted it on my channel .
The problem is that some road vehicle users think that a train can stop as quick as a road vehicle. They don't realise how a heavy a train is and the momentum a train as.
Funnily enough, the mass and momentum don't factor into that calculation much. As with road vehicles, rolling stock stops and goes through friction, which is very very low for shiny steel wheel on shiny steel rail contact. A light passenger train and a heavy freight train decelerate about as well as each other (which is not particularly well, low friction and all). Brake activation times will differ though 🤔
I worked for csx in Florida as a engineer and in Tampa one day we were going 50 when we hit a little van that did not stop at crossing. The other engineer threw the brakes so hard and we still took almost 2 minutes to stop. Please just stop at crossings😢
Honestly being a railfan for two years, i seen my fair share of people stopping on that tracks or a grade crossing when a train is coming or going around the gates like an idiot...
That's a set of safety points, so that if a train had a SPAD (signal passed at danger, i.e. went through a red) while the route is set for an oncoming train, it will be diverted to the runoff siding and derailed in order to protect the oncoming train who would be proceeding correctly on signals. The same exists for the opposite direction on the other side of the bridge.
Surely if that barrier wasn't fully in the down position the interlocking shouldn't have cleared the signals or allowed them to continue displaying a proceed aspect? If a barrier is raised on an LC on the UK network the protecting signals drop back to danger.
Our interlocking detects failed crossing alarms, but to enforce that the arms have to be in the fully down position to clear the signal? That seems unnecessarily hardcore and sounds like more things to fail and cause signal outages and disruption. (That's also at risk of being abused by the locals, who... have been known to tamper with equipment and loot stopped trains.) But hey, I'm just some monkey that pushes levers to keep greens coming towards me, and keep reds away from me.
In North America, crossing protection devices are not interlocked with the signal system at all, except in very rare cases where there is a road crossing within the confines of a track interlocking plant.
@@evanstauffer4470 Nor could they be, realistically. The crossing gates activate very roughly 20 seconds before the train occupies the crossing. It can easily take a minute or more to stop a train even in an emergency, so my the time I know that a car is on the crossing, it’s too late to stop. If a problem is reported in time, we obviously do either stop short or approach at a speed that will slow us to stop if needed.
That's a common Health & Safety term, and that's the terminology we use at work. I didn't come up with it, nor will I sit here and defend it. Call it what you want. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_miss_(safety)
Why more horn? Flashing lights, bells and a physical barrier didn't stop them. The horn won't help. Americans are horn happy and they still hit 1500+ cars every week.
@@trainsimulatordriver I agree with @jessejohnson, not enough warning of the train's arrival at the crossing. You are right, the bells, lights, and barrier didn't stop them in this incident, but one lousy toot of the horn half a mile away from the crossing isn't much warning to all the traffic (including pedestrian, bike, scooter, etc.) that may be about to use the crossing. Do I want a full 40 seconds of horn? No, but one lousy toot can be pretty ambiguous.
@@stanpatterson5033 let's take Europe, in most European countries they'll only blow the horn in an emergency and they have very few level crossing accidents. It's about people taking responsibility for themselves not relying on others to warn them and in this case provide a fifth warning (signs, lights, bells, barriers).
@@trainsimulatordriver Well, on the issue of horn use, I guess we will have to agree to disagree. However, I hope that we can agree on the fact that stupidity is Universal. Unfortunately, the hub of the Universe seems to be the USA for stupid drivers who ignore multiple warnings, take stupid chances, and end up becoming statistics. I see plenty of evidence that it happens often in Europe, though.
Narrowly escaping death in a Fuck Around and Find Out (FAFO) situation. Willing to bet that the driver of the little speck of a car was either drunk/high or glued to a cell phone. Glad the conductor had the wherewithal to blow the horn with as much advance notice as possible, because without that horn, that car would have turned into metal spaghetti and the driver, well, they wouldn't likely have walked away from such a horrible collision.
Train was 228, and for the worldwide audience, it was a freight train in New Zealand, and this happened going through a town called Ngaruawahia, between Hamilton and Auckland.
@@dl9786-kr Not necessarily, the size proportions of the sleepers in relation to the rails made me think of meter gauge. But yeah, in my country, standard gauge is, well, the standard, however, there are also some secondary/tertiary and heritage railways in narrow gauges like 750 or 1000mm. In the area of urban light rail and streetcar systems, there is even more variation, including some oddballs like 1100mm.
Brakes on for a few hundred meters not really doing much in the slowing down lol Respect trains and give them there space as marked on the crossing lol cause that a lot of mass moving at 80 mph ? that cannot just stop and your in a car that wieghts maybe 1500 kg and your 90 kg of organic matter vs a chunk of metal doing 80 that wieght 100s of thousands kilos that cant stop basic physics
New Zealand, man - they don't vote for Trump or Harris. Man, they don't even get to vote directly for their Prime Minister. Whoever's party gets the most seats provides the PM and cabinet.
This is a video of a near miss on a railway crossing in New Zealand. This is not a video of someone persuaded not to vote for Trump/Vance. Even though elections in the US are no way my business, I feel sorry for your disappointment.
I'm sure many would love to have all the thousands of level crossings in the country turned into over/underbridges, but the taxpayers aren't willing to pay for it ;)
Crossing gate comes down across your windscreen; yes, just stay exactly where you are. The train'll go around you 🙄
Obviously... 😐
We wouldn't want to scratch the paint, would we....
Might be they have no depth perception or no idea how long the car is.... But if that's the cases they should never have gotten in the drivers seat in the first place.
Train engineer had plenty of time to swerve.
*brakes on*
*no noticeable deceleration*
Yeah dont mess around on the tracks fam 💀
It’s slightly noticeable when it hits the car. Slightly.
"Brakes on" doesn't really mean much in this context, they take a good while to actually do something. Trains are long, air pipes have a good bit of flow resistance. Better now than they used to be, but you still need to plan minutes ahead.
@@KandiKlover The transfer of momentum into the car is also noticeable.
The traffic arm was... sitting... on the vehicle? Do they think that's normal? That's how they drive!?
yes, they think it will be fine. I drive trams and we have cars, trucks and busses stopped under the arm all the frickin time.
Excuse my language but holy shit.Stop doing this to our train crews people, the trains are bigger than you so you're not going to win but then the crew has to pick up your pieces. Just stop it.
I had to deal with accidents with cars and trucks on crossings . The outcome was not pretty .
Welcome back. Glad to see you're still uploading vids and the comments are turned on. 👍
I worked on British rail for nearly 50 years and our greatest worry was interaction with the general public. People just don't understand how dangerous a railway is !
Ngaruawahia. One of my favourite places on this earth. ❤
I don't get it. The gates were down, bells were ringing, engineer whistled, what did the driver not understand? Better, HOW did the driver not understand?
I'll give em benefit of the doubt, and assume they were in a line of traffic at the intersection, the barrier arm dropped on top of their car and they panicked and froze 🤷♂️ at least they came to their senses and backed off the crossing just in time!
How rude of that train driver to not let the car pass. He clearly owns the street, show him some respect!
(For the sheldon coopers, this is sarcasm)
@@hello-hb1ll sure, a sarcasm that ended up being deadly when you think about it.
@@hello-hb1ll wait until it gets close to the tracks and then... you know things about to get messed up.
I really have no sympathy for people who make brainless decisions at train crossings. The person was trying to push the gate up and out of their way with their car while they could probably see and definitely hear the train coming because they’re too impatient to wait. I mean do they have a death wish? The Darwin Awards never end
In fairness to the person, my take on it (after watching the video a lot of times) is that they were probably stopped too far onto the crossing in a queue of traffic at the intersection, the barrier came down on their car and they panicked and froze.
There was no evidence of them pushing up once they came into view, and I haven't seen any other POV.
Had so.eone panic when the alarms came on down south one evening and skid onto the crossing in front of me. They backed up clear of the rail bit, not the arms, and one ended up resting on the roof, giving everyone a hell of a fright.
Those days stick with the LE for sure.
@@dl9786-kr The whole thing is a box junction for a reason though...
@@dl9786-kr Saw the same thing in Utah with a Women who did the same thing but the silly thing keep on going , luckily I caught it on Camera and posted it on my channel .
PAU50 - 2012 Toyota Aqua. Hope they enjoy their new carjam photo
The problem is that some road vehicle users think that a train can stop as quick as a road vehicle. They don't realise how a heavy a train is and the momentum a train as.
Ah... I see your error... you were under the assumption that these people think...
Funnily enough, the mass and momentum don't factor into that calculation much. As with road vehicles, rolling stock stops and goes through friction, which is very very low for shiny steel wheel on shiny steel rail contact. A light passenger train and a heavy freight train decelerate about as well as each other (which is not particularly well, low friction and all). Brake activation times will differ though 🤔
I worked for csx in Florida as a engineer and in Tampa one day we were going 50 when we hit a little van that did not stop at crossing. The other engineer threw the brakes so hard and we still took almost 2 minutes to stop. Please just stop at crossings😢
Honestly being a railfan for two years, i seen my fair share of people stopping on that tracks or a grade crossing when a train is coming or going around the gates like an idiot...
After watching the Paladin video - I mean I expected the train to win. I didn't expect it to not even blink.
The switch to nowhere right after the crossing is scary too.
That's a set of safety points, so that if a train had a SPAD (signal passed at danger, i.e. went through a red) while the route is set for an oncoming train, it will be diverted to the runoff siding and derailed in order to protect the oncoming train who would be proceeding correctly on signals.
The same exists for the opposite direction on the other side of the bridge.
@@dl9786-kr Thanks. Once upon a time I knew that such things existed, but had totally forgotten. :)
Otherwise known as "Catch Points" -they are deliberately designed to derail trains that pass a signal at danger [SPAD]
Man, I love trains.
Man, I worked with them for 50 years and I hate them !!!!!!!!!!!
1:05 World's shortest siding
Just a runoff from the safety points to capture (derail) anything that goes past the signal at red, to protect trains coming the other way.
Surely if that barrier wasn't fully in the down position the interlocking shouldn't have cleared the signals or allowed them to continue displaying a proceed aspect? If a barrier is raised on an LC on the UK network the protecting signals drop back to danger.
Our interlocking detects failed crossing alarms, but to enforce that the arms have to be in the fully down position to clear the signal? That seems unnecessarily hardcore and sounds like more things to fail and cause signal outages and disruption. (That's also at risk of being abused by the locals, who... have been known to tamper with equipment and loot stopped trains.)
But hey, I'm just some monkey that pushes levers to keep greens coming towards me, and keep reds away from me.
@@roblane6368 automatic crossings aren't interlocked with signals, they're activated by track circuits
In North America, crossing protection devices are not interlocked with the signal system at all, except in very rare cases where there is a road crossing within the confines of a track interlocking plant.
@@evanstauffer4470 Nor could they be, realistically. The crossing gates activate very roughly 20 seconds before the train occupies the crossing. It can easily take a minute or more to stop a train even in an emergency, so my the time I know that a car is on the crossing, it’s too late to stop. If a problem is reported in time, we obviously do either stop short or approach at a speed that will slow us to stop if needed.
Shit that was too close
Naaaaaa the bumper is just fine😵😵
Better outcome than the Levin area collision in which the car was collected.
Nothing wrong with the signals and barriers that’s for sure. What else could it be?🤔
I just subscribed to your TH-cam channel
People don't understand stand... seen some stupid people and a real close near miss down here...
This is why driving safety is important
That's a little too realistic reenactment there!
There's a video from India where the train hits a cow.
What is a "near miss"? If you nearly missed, that means you hit it, but almost missed? Doesn't make any sense.
That's a common Health & Safety term, and that's the terminology we use at work. I didn't come up with it, nor will I sit here and defend it. Call it what you want.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_miss_(safety)
I'm always surprised at how quiet trains are here in NZ as in the Horn is hardly used to warn traffic. Glad that this was just a very close call
Why more horn? Flashing lights, bells and a physical barrier didn't stop them. The horn won't help. Americans are horn happy and they still hit 1500+ cars every week.
@@trainsimulatordriver I agree with @jessejohnson, not enough warning of the train's arrival at the crossing. You are right, the bells, lights, and barrier didn't stop them in this incident, but one lousy toot of the horn half a mile away from the crossing isn't much warning to all the traffic (including pedestrian, bike, scooter, etc.) that may be about to use the crossing. Do I want a full 40 seconds of horn? No, but one lousy toot can be pretty ambiguous.
@@stanpatterson5033 let's take Europe, in most European countries they'll only blow the horn in an emergency and they have very few level crossing accidents. It's about people taking responsibility for themselves not relying on others to warn them and in this case provide a fifth warning (signs, lights, bells, barriers).
@@trainsimulatordriver Well, on the issue of horn use, I guess we will have to agree to disagree.
However, I hope that we can agree on the fact that stupidity is Universal. Unfortunately, the hub of the Universe seems to be the USA for stupid drivers who ignore multiple warnings, take stupid chances, and end up becoming statistics. I see plenty of evidence that it happens often in Europe, though.
@@stanpatterson5033 fair enough
Automatic Number Plate Recongition needed.
Narrowly escaping death in a Fuck Around and Find Out (FAFO) situation. Willing to bet that the driver of the little speck of a car was either drunk/high or glued to a cell phone. Glad the conductor had the wherewithal to blow the horn with as much advance notice as possible, because without that horn, that car would have turned into metal spaghetti and the driver, well, they wouldn't likely have walked away from such a horrible collision.
viewer discretion advised? 😆
I know someone who drives that badly.
And that person survives the Darwin test
What train is this on
Train was 228, and for the worldwide audience, it was a freight train in New Zealand, and this happened going through a town called Ngaruawahia, between Hamilton and Auckland.
@@dl9786-kris it just the perspective, do I have a broken optical apparatus or are the tracks really narrow gauge?
I'm European btw
@@thedoublek4816 New Zealand is on 1067mm gauge. You’ll probably be more used to 1435mm standard gauge.
@@dl9786-kr Not necessarily, the size proportions of the sleepers in relation to the rails made me think of meter gauge.
But yeah, in my country, standard gauge is, well, the standard, however, there are also some secondary/tertiary and heritage railways in narrow gauges like 750 or 1000mm. In the area of urban light rail and streetcar systems, there is even more variation, including some oddballs like 1100mm.
The train had priority as it was coming from the right.
Right or left doesn't matter. Trains have priority on ANY crossing.
@@am5p8 Only if there is no crosswalk. In that case, the train must yield to pedestrians.
@@ZombieMax Don't know what planet you're on but nowhere I know of is that correct.
@@am5p8 Look it up, it's the same rule between landing planes and seagulls.
@@am5p8 Mars possibly .
blind corner for the train driver to
Bad title. As George Carlin said, “A near miss is a HIT”! 😅😅
I remain flabbergasted by the amount of people that take issue with standard Health & Safety terminology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_miss_(safety)
Oh what the fack
I feel for the driver big time
duh!
Brakes on for a few hundred meters not really doing much in the slowing down lol Respect trains and give them there space as marked on the crossing lol cause that a lot of mass moving at 80 mph ? that cannot just stop and your in a car that wieghts maybe 1500 kg and your 90 kg of organic matter vs a chunk of metal doing 80 that wieght 100s of thousands kilos that cant stop basic physics
Darn! Almost one less Trump/Vance voter!
New Zealand, man - they don't vote for Trump or Harris. Man, they don't even get to vote directly for their Prime Minister. Whoever's party gets the most seats provides the PM and cabinet.
This is a video of a near miss on a railway crossing in New Zealand. This is not a video of someone persuaded not to vote for Trump/Vance. Even though elections in the US are no way my business, I feel sorry for your disappointment.
@@sergiyshklyar2573 By his insane behavior, I'm not voting for that windbag creep. I've got morales.
Hard proof that Harris-Walz backers are dumber'n rocks.
People have made and will make mistakes. So you have to improve infrastructure instead.
I'm sure many would love to have all the thousands of level crossings in the country turned into over/underbridges, but the taxpayers aren't willing to pay for it ;)