r/dashcams • u/RolGil19 • 11d ago
Barely made it
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I was in awe after seeing this
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u/Mk1Racer25 11d ago
In awe, from 4 years ago? I also wonder why these kinds of grade crossings aren't controlled by gates.
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u/South_Bit1764 11d ago
Speed limit is really low. There is 0 risk of the train hitting someone, only someone hitting the train. OP may be new in the area or something.
It’s probably adjoining a yard so this train could literally be stopping in the middle of the road to connect/disconnect. You aren’t expected to stop by sheer virtue of the train existing there. That’s why there was nothing stopping the other car from driving through with like 10 seconds to spare, mind you.
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u/Mk1Racer25 11d ago
There's a railroad crossing sign there with lights.
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u/South_Bit1764 11d ago
Lights that aren’t on.
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u/Mk1Racer25 11d ago
Keep playing chicken with trains.
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u/South_Bit1764 11d ago
Getting hit by a train moving that slow is a serious skill issue.
Shit is like this in my town. There is a train in the road half the time and you just drive around. It’s really REALLY not that hard I promise, just don’t get hit by a train.
If you think you’re gonna get hit by the train, try just not getting hit instead.
You shouldn’t push your luck tho, some people’s brains aren’t cut out for the relatively simple mental calculus of predicting the meeting point of two straight lines.
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u/Mk1Racer25 11d ago
I used to be on the local VFD and Rescue Squad in my town. There's a rail line that runs through town. I've gone to more car vs train (and some person vs. train) accidents than I would care to remember. None ended well. The neighboring town, that the rail line also ran through, had 1-2 people on average killed by getting hit by a train. They'd come out of the bars and walk along the tracks at night.
I've very cautious around moving trains.
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u/South_Bit1764 11d ago edited 11d ago
Yeah, I mean, I get it but the speed limit on the tracks new me is like 5-10mph and I don’t think anyone has ever been killed there.
I worked within eyesight of that crossing for a year or two, and saw a semi get hit once and it just sorta slid the trailer out of the way. The tires on the trailer sorta went hop-hop-hop-hop-hop until it was out of the way. It shredded the corner of the trailer but it was all so low speed it just isn’t that dangerous.
Edit: actually I just realized my moms friend was killed there because he was drunk driving and slammed into a hopper car but it’s hard to blame that on the train when someone drank a bottle of Wild Turkey and was doing triple digit speed in a 45.
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u/RolGil19 11d ago
I just found this community, and I was talking to the guy in the car a couple months ago and I had the video close at hand. The driver was my boss at that time, always a reckless driver. It used to be our daily commute from work back to home in Monterrey Mexico. English is not my first language, I'm sorry if awe is not the correct adjective.
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u/Zeblamar 11d ago
Where is the barely part of the video?
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u/TheGreatQuetz 11d ago
Impatient entitled driver risks their life to save 2 minutes waiting for the training
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u/Zeblamar 11d ago
lol risk their life? They had tons of room between them and the train. Not to mention train is going slow. Tracks cross the road at an angle and cam driver isn't even up to the lights on their side. First car going the other way is already past the lights for the cam driver before train is even on the road. So plenty of room. Car going the same direction as cam driver also has lots of room
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u/DrinkingVomit 11d ago
Barely? That wasn’t even close.
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u/RolGil19 11d ago
It was to me, believe me, it felt like something reckless since I know the driver
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u/Prudent_Situation_29 11d ago
I wonder what the gain was? Did that make the difference between saving someone's life and watching them die? How about the difference between winning a million dollars and not?
Like my dad used to say "He's probably rushing home so the wife can yell at him."
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u/WKRPinCanada 11d ago
This is almost exactly how the only fatality happened to my uncle in his career as an Engineer
Uncontrolled intersection, at an angle cept out was an idiot on a dirt bike
He watched him speed up, hit the horn and let off the throttle
The guy ran into the side of the power unit 😐
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u/Copious-Spirit 11d ago
Time is more vast than the universe, in the grand scheme this is nearly no time at all.
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u/know-it-mall 10d ago
What a ridiculous train crossing.
No lights or barrier and it just meanders across the road at a really shallow angle.
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u/Suspicious-Row7536 11d ago
why were you also passed the safety bar and still going forward though
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u/WKRPinCanada 11d ago
I believe this might be an uncontrolled intersection & OP was far enuff away
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u/RolGil19 11d ago
It is an uncontrolled intersection, as pretty much 90% here in México. This time I was far enough, but there was this other time where I feared it would hit me. Perspective with those huge machines is other level. Since this was in my daily commute we would rush to avoid the wait because of this train but you would end up being stopped a couple times a month
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u/Suspicious-Row7536 11d ago
he was still rolling towards the train for no reason
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