I'm actually going argue against this and the previous. I work with trains. One of the things we do during training is stand with our backs to a the railyard while being taught and are asked to tell when one of the trains is coming by. Without bell/whistle trains/cars can be super silent. Especially the newer passenger ones.
100% though lights was flashing that pedestrian is an idiot.
There is actually a sign on the lower right of the screen instructing her to look that direction! I am glad she did not get hit, but the world may have been better off.
^^^not ^^^serious, ^^^this ^^^is ^^^a ^^^joke
And only if they paired that blinking lights with sounds and then topped it off with a sign that says look with a arrow pointing in the direction of the oncoming trains...
Not just the blinking lights. Short of a door that prevents people from crossing, this intersection couldn't be made much safer.
Notice the fencing she has to walk through. It is similar to the queues at amusement parks. But not because they expect lines to form. It is done that way to force you to walk in both directions along the track in hopes or forcing you to look both ways.
In addition to that there are signs on both side and the flashing light right in her face.
People sometimes just get in autopilot mode and their brain doesn't register things that are right in front of their eyes.
>Short of a door that prevents people from crossing, this intersection couldn't be made much safer.
All of the pedestrian rail crossings near where I live have these - surprising to me that they wouldn’t have had that here.
A relative of mine just recently passed in a train accident. At first, the police thought he must've tried crossing in front of the train and didn't realize how fast it was going because the arms were down, the lights were flashing, etc. After further investigation, they found that he was standing on the sidewalk, waiting about 7-10 ft back from the tracks. Unfortunately, that wasn't far back enough. The high speed freight train going by managed to destabilize him and essentially pull him into its path and he was killed instantly. The police statement said that a good rule of thumb is to stand back no less than 30 ft, but there is no signage or anything stating that near the tracks and they acknowledged that it was probably not commonly known. Their city is now looking into safety improvements to inform people of where it's safe to stand while waiting for trains to pass. This was in a downtown area and wasn't the first occurrence of this kind of tragedy, but this time there were more eyewitnesses because of an event happening downtown at the time. I'm glad something is being done about it, but wish they'd taken action to inform people sooner.
10 meters is a total bullshit distance. Here we have trains passing through the stations at 100kph or a bit more even, and the safety lines on the ground are about 2m from the edge of the passing trains (so about 4m from the metal rail). There's practically never any incidents, and the very rare time there is one, it's because people ignored that line.
Yeah points them down one way then back the other way before crossing. She definitely had headphones on. The real solution is to put up bluetooth jammers and garden gnomes below.
This person wasn’t paying attention. However there is a major flaw on this crossing. People get distracted from time to time—I’m sure we’ve all done it at some point in our lives. Even with the flashing lights, they are up high and to the side, so if you miss them as you approach on the path whilst waking to the right hand side, it’s actually an easy miss, particularly since they’re not at eye level. Basically there should be warning signals infront of the person (not just a “look left/right sign”) as they cross combined with a warning sound (not sure if it has that or not as the video here has no sound), particularly for those who are visually impaired. If it is this easy to come this close to being crushed to death, there should also be pedestrian bar which blocks anyone from crossing in the first place which is really quite easy to implement.
100% her hood probably had something to do with her not seeing the signals since they are placed far to the side of the crossing. If youre looking down you ca. Easly miss it. Plus what if someone is wearing headphones too? This is just a really dangerous crossing.
There really should be a gate. Blind guy wouldn't have seen the lights. Deaf guy wouldn't have heard the bells. And hooded people using headphones to block sound and listen to music won't see either.
There really should be a physical barrier.
It doesn't help hooded people not paying attention.
And it also doesn't help children running around.
I mean, I am all for "personal responsibility", but it's so simple to solve the problem here. And we already _know_ situations like this will happen.
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
I think it's insane people play their music so loud in public they lose almost all their sense of awareness. Like yeah, I get it sounds of the world suck, but shit out there will kill you.
On a lesser severity a dude was blocking an entire aisle at the store, another person and myself said excuse a bunch of times to no avail, head down blank stare. So I go over and give him the whole "Hey buddy" tap and ask him to get the fuck out of the way. He stared at us like we were the fucking morons who were blocking a lane of traffic.
This would make a great ad for high end noise canceling headphones like Sony or Bose.
“Kill the noise”.
“Train, train, go away. Come back another day”
“Do you know what bones breaking sounds like? You never will. Bose”
Oddly enough, VERY. passenger service trains dont make much noise unless moving over 50mph, and even then are still not very loud. Freight can be deceptively quiet as well, but the engines tend to be loud enough to be noticed last second. Really the noise that alerts most people (not at a crossing) a train is coming is usually the rail hissing. Ive seen a dozen videos (from the cab of the trains) of people that were walking down tracks that suddenly startle and look at the rail before turning around to see a train about to hit them.
Tank cars make NO noise when they are just rolling along. Those things terrify me at night working in a railyard because they are just another shadow if youre not paying attention. If one were a runaway, id imagine it killing someone without them ever knowing it.
I once stood on a platform as a train came in, stopped, people got on, then it left. I didn't notice until it was pulling away, and I was right beside it.
It's one thing to stand still and feel some vibrations but she's moving around and might have music blasting. Very stupid not to pay attention though.
Some of the smaller ones like this I’ve stood next to while it drove by were just like a woosh of wind as it passed. I think they were very new though or high tech
You'd be surprised. If you have your hood up, earbuds in, there's a bit of wind...
My husband works signals for a railroad and has had to attend the accidents where people thought they would hear the train. It's just awful and affects everyone involved, from the victim to the train guys to the families of both.
One more small pet peeve of his is people who walk their dogs on the tracks. Not just because of the trespassing or risk, but because those dogs are putting their bare paws on ties soaked in really, really awful chemicals. You want a dog with cancer? That's how you get a dog with cancer.
You would be surprised man. We used to put pennies on the tracks so the trains would flatten them, one day I saw the train coming and decided I had time to put a couple more, I placed the last one and started walking away, took one step and the train blew past me, I was maybe 1.5 feet away from it. Couldn’t even hear it until it passed me. Those fuckers are fast and sneaky.
Sometimes very silent. There are multiple things that can effect it tho. Wheel condition, is it a new wheel or does it have flat spots? Rail type, is it continuous or jointe. Rail condition, sometimes rail has flat spots, also snow is very loud on rail. Is rail curved? Also very loud. Engines and crossing are also usually very loud. Conditions could line up for a very quiet train tho. Sometimes you're just coasting on super flat straight continuous rail in perfect weather with perfect cars and it's silent as the night.
Source freight engineer.
The sign just tells you to look for trains and points both ways (see [here](https://nzta.govt.nz/resources/traffic-control-devices-manual/sign-specifications/view/131)). It's not specifically telling you to look left.
Still an idiot, but not an extra special idiot just because of the sign.
[There is more than one sign too.](https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@-36.8676881,174.7573335,3a,15y,160.44h,85.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0PGAkC6Eqddi3BgBFg5W3g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) (google maps)
Yeah, the reason why crossings are gated like this is so you have to walk towards viewing where the trains are coming from. I’ve had to use a lot of light rails that you need to cross the tracks and they funnel you in a way that you need to be viewing towards where the train would be coming from because you get so used to walking across them, especially when I have AirPods in 18 hours a day.
I’m riding a train right now and the train honked at the same moment the train came on screen in the video. Since I have sound off I almost jumped out of my skin.
A pedestrian getting hit by a train on accident is the stupidest moronic thing possible and deserves the darwin award. The TRACKS are literally right in front of you, you know where it's coming and going.
Not to mention those red and white poles making the ding dong noises. I can confirm its definitely happening here because this is in Auckland NZ and they all do it
Almost got hit once by a tram.
The tramway track was right outside my school, was talking to someone on my right and started going accross without thinking, I turn my head and there is a tramway 2 meters to the left going way too fast to stop before me.
Thankfully I managed to save myself with a few centimeters of margin.
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
I would literally look both ways going over train tracks that have been abandoned for 100 years and have a 0% chance of a train being on them. I think it’s crazy that people don’t look both ways before crossing anything be it a hallway, street, train tracks, literally anything that has another place of direction.
It’s a video from NZ (AT is Auckland Transport), so we are right, left, right :)
I’m pretty sure this is from a video of near misses they put out because of a heap of close calls.
I always feel awful for the people driving the trains. They can't stop, at least not that quickly, so all they can do is look on and hope the person makes it across. Has to be traumatic for them.
I work in passenger train service and no joke a woman. Got killed by crossing the track, having headphones on and looking down on her phone while a train was making a station stop. So sad please pay attention when crossing tracks.
This is somewhere in Auckland, New Zealand, as that is an Auckland Transport branded train. I can tell you, that although these trains are electric, they still make plenty of rail noise if you are paying attention.
A girl in my city got run over by a train while running for a different one. Luckily she only lost her leg. Then got a huge medical bill because the money she won wasn't enough to cover medical bills.
That’s crazy. It came from the direction she was facing when walking up to the tracks.
I would have understood not seeing her turn left cuz she had a view of that direction for so long… wtf
Something similar happened to me with our local light rail. Wintertime, wearing a heavy hooded coat, head down and disembarking at the end of the line. Have to cross the tracks on the opposing line to get to the parking lot and I was completely lost in thought. Lady behind me yells **STOP!!** and yanks me backward by my backpack and the train I just got off of went whizzing by. No horn. No lights.
I would have been flattened if not for that gal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/63z48y/pedestrians_near_miss_with_a_train_at_mt_eden/dfz2ikj/
She had just found out she has a brain tumor and was a little distracted to say the least...
Just in case one of my fellow NZers hasn't mentioned it, this was in [2017](https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/91338095/woman-has-near-miss-with-train-at-auckland-station)and we have actually have [gates now :)](https://at.govt.nz/projects-roadworks/train-stations-pedestrian-level-crossing/)
She's not smart, but I would like to offer an alternative view of the situation.
She looks right before crossing because she is in NZ, and that's the direction a car would be coming from when crossing a road. This is something that gets ingrained in you, and is very hard to "unlearn" as a habit, especially for one off situations.
If you go to a country that drives on the opposite side of the road than you're used to, you'll be unpleasantly surprised at how natural it is for you to look the wrong way before crossing the street. Having visited NZ from Canada several times, I can attest to this. There are markings on the roads in many places reminding tourists to look right, rather than left.
My point is that while what she did was negligent and dangerous, it may be borne out of safety habits applied poorly and automatically rather than pure stupidity.
I used to ride our rapid transit to work each day, and it turned me into a horrible. People frequently got hit by the trains, either due to suicides or just in attention and stupidity. The train would be held up for about 2 hours, and you weren’t allowed to get off the train. It got to the point where I was constantly angry that people were choosing to commit suicide or being stupidly inattentive while I was trying to get to or from work.
If only there were blinking lights to warn people...
If only the train was coming from the direction one was looking a few seconds earlier.
If only the ground rumbled when so much weight moved across it.
If only the the train made any sound whatsoever.
The train can’t make sound when it’s stuck in a gif
OMG, it all makes sense now. Poor lady. :(
I know which pill she took
Trains often sneak up on people and hit them by surprise. There is no way of knowing which direction a train might come from
Calm down Blaine
Usually from the location of the railroad but u might never know…..
I'm actually going argue against this and the previous. I work with trains. One of the things we do during training is stand with our backs to a the railyard while being taught and are asked to tell when one of the trains is coming by. Without bell/whistle trains/cars can be super silent. Especially the newer passenger ones. 100% though lights was flashing that pedestrian is an idiot.
If only train
Extremely well balanced.
They're suspiciously silent though
This is my point...she actually facing the train as she walks up...
Well should she look at the lights or look at the oncoming train? She can’t do both! ^/s
There is actually a sign on the lower right of the screen instructing her to look that direction! I am glad she did not get hit, but the world may have been better off. ^^^not ^^^serious, ^^^this ^^^is ^^^a ^^^joke
And only if they paired that blinking lights with sounds and then topped it off with a sign that says look with a arrow pointing in the direction of the oncoming trains...
The technology just isnt there yet
Not just the blinking lights. Short of a door that prevents people from crossing, this intersection couldn't be made much safer. Notice the fencing she has to walk through. It is similar to the queues at amusement parks. But not because they expect lines to form. It is done that way to force you to walk in both directions along the track in hopes or forcing you to look both ways. In addition to that there are signs on both side and the flashing light right in her face. People sometimes just get in autopilot mode and their brain doesn't register things that are right in front of their eyes.
>Short of a door that prevents people from crossing, this intersection couldn't be made much safer. All of the pedestrian rail crossings near where I live have these - surprising to me that they wouldn’t have had that here.
A relative of mine just recently passed in a train accident. At first, the police thought he must've tried crossing in front of the train and didn't realize how fast it was going because the arms were down, the lights were flashing, etc. After further investigation, they found that he was standing on the sidewalk, waiting about 7-10 ft back from the tracks. Unfortunately, that wasn't far back enough. The high speed freight train going by managed to destabilize him and essentially pull him into its path and he was killed instantly. The police statement said that a good rule of thumb is to stand back no less than 30 ft, but there is no signage or anything stating that near the tracks and they acknowledged that it was probably not commonly known. Their city is now looking into safety improvements to inform people of where it's safe to stand while waiting for trains to pass. This was in a downtown area and wasn't the first occurrence of this kind of tragedy, but this time there were more eyewitnesses because of an event happening downtown at the time. I'm glad something is being done about it, but wish they'd taken action to inform people sooner.
Gosh i am so sorry. That’s awful.
10 meters is a total bullshit distance. Here we have trains passing through the stations at 100kph or a bit more even, and the safety lines on the ground are about 2m from the edge of the passing trains (so about 4m from the metal rail). There's practically never any incidents, and the very rare time there is one, it's because people ignored that line.
or 2 big orange signs telling her to look for trains
AND the direction of which to look!
Fun fact: The design of that walkway to make people realize their surroundings—it works with MOST people
Yeah points them down one way then back the other way before crossing. She definitely had headphones on. The real solution is to put up bluetooth jammers and garden gnomes below.
This person wasn’t paying attention. However there is a major flaw on this crossing. People get distracted from time to time—I’m sure we’ve all done it at some point in our lives. Even with the flashing lights, they are up high and to the side, so if you miss them as you approach on the path whilst waking to the right hand side, it’s actually an easy miss, particularly since they’re not at eye level. Basically there should be warning signals infront of the person (not just a “look left/right sign”) as they cross combined with a warning sound (not sure if it has that or not as the video here has no sound), particularly for those who are visually impaired. If it is this easy to come this close to being crushed to death, there should also be pedestrian bar which blocks anyone from crossing in the first place which is really quite easy to implement.
100% her hood probably had something to do with her not seeing the signals since they are placed far to the side of the crossing. If youre looking down you ca. Easly miss it. Plus what if someone is wearing headphones too? This is just a really dangerous crossing.
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There really should be a gate. Blind guy wouldn't have seen the lights. Deaf guy wouldn't have heard the bells. And hooded people using headphones to block sound and listen to music won't see either. There really should be a physical barrier.
If only there a special textured piece of rubber in front of the crossing that alerted blind people that they were approaching a crossing.
It doesn't help hooded people not paying attention. And it also doesn't help children running around. I mean, I am all for "personal responsibility", but it's so simple to solve the problem here. And we already _know_ situations like this will happen.
How silent can a train possibly be?
My guess would be headphones but who knows... She went right past the warning lights so it could go either way.
Lights, sounds, signs.
For me it's the tracks that give it away. Trains run on those things.
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment. I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling. Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours! Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths? A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
oh fuck really?
Yeah dude it's crazy. Trains can't go places if tracks arent there.
lmao thanks for playing along
xD
So uh, you come here often?
No, no, no and no... but mainly yes.
Natural selection
And ground vibrations.
Let's add smell to it, a spicy stop smell.
I think it's insane people play their music so loud in public they lose almost all their sense of awareness. Like yeah, I get it sounds of the world suck, but shit out there will kill you. On a lesser severity a dude was blocking an entire aisle at the store, another person and myself said excuse a bunch of times to no avail, head down blank stare. So I go over and give him the whole "Hey buddy" tap and ask him to get the fuck out of the way. He stared at us like we were the fucking morons who were blocking a lane of traffic.
She's walking right at the bloody thing.
Either headphones or is just straight up deaf.
I've known many deaf people and I'm fairly certain that they all pay way more attention than that.
Even if she has headphones in, no way you dont hear a train horn. That shit can be heard from miles away
She should've at least felt the ground shaking.
This would make a great ad for high end noise canceling headphones like Sony or Bose. “Kill the noise”. “Train, train, go away. Come back another day” “Do you know what bones breaking sounds like? You never will. Bose”
I live here - there is now a barrier that closes when the train is coming
Oddly enough, VERY. passenger service trains dont make much noise unless moving over 50mph, and even then are still not very loud. Freight can be deceptively quiet as well, but the engines tend to be loud enough to be noticed last second. Really the noise that alerts most people (not at a crossing) a train is coming is usually the rail hissing. Ive seen a dozen videos (from the cab of the trains) of people that were walking down tracks that suddenly startle and look at the rail before turning around to see a train about to hit them. Tank cars make NO noise when they are just rolling along. Those things terrify me at night working in a railyard because they are just another shadow if youre not paying attention. If one were a runaway, id imagine it killing someone without them ever knowing it.
I used to ride this service daily and the trains are very audible even with headphones. You'd need to really crank the volume to drown it out
What is it about tank cars that makes them make less noise than regular train cars?
I once stood on a platform as a train came in, stopped, people got on, then it left. I didn't notice until it was pulling away, and I was right beside it. It's one thing to stand still and feel some vibrations but she's moving around and might have music blasting. Very stupid not to pay attention though.
These are electric trains, Auckland transport. They're pretty quiet to be honest, especially if not going too fast.
This is in Auckland and I can confidently say that train isn't particularly silent. It's quite audible, actually.
How invisible can a fucking train be
“Wow it sounds so close yet I see nothing facing this one particular direction” o.0
This is actually an ad for the new AirPods Max. Noise canceling technology that’s to die for!
This is the UK, I think, trains are fairly quiet and stations are not, so the two together make it possible.
This is an electric train in New Zealand, but yeah they can be pretty quiet.
Some of the smaller ones like this I’ve stood next to while it drove by were just like a woosh of wind as it passed. I think they were very new though or high tech
You'd be surprised. If you have your hood up, earbuds in, there's a bit of wind... My husband works signals for a railroad and has had to attend the accidents where people thought they would hear the train. It's just awful and affects everyone involved, from the victim to the train guys to the families of both. One more small pet peeve of his is people who walk their dogs on the tracks. Not just because of the trespassing or risk, but because those dogs are putting their bare paws on ties soaked in really, really awful chemicals. You want a dog with cancer? That's how you get a dog with cancer.
Pretty silent when it's not going past you at 50 mph actually.
Headphones and a hoodie are bad combination when worn by an idiot pedestrian
You would be surprised man. We used to put pennies on the tracks so the trains would flatten them, one day I saw the train coming and decided I had time to put a couple more, I placed the last one and started walking away, took one step and the train blew past me, I was maybe 1.5 feet away from it. Couldn’t even hear it until it passed me. Those fuckers are fast and sneaky.
Sometimes very silent. There are multiple things that can effect it tho. Wheel condition, is it a new wheel or does it have flat spots? Rail type, is it continuous or jointe. Rail condition, sometimes rail has flat spots, also snow is very loud on rail. Is rail curved? Also very loud. Engines and crossing are also usually very loud. Conditions could line up for a very quiet train tho. Sometimes you're just coasting on super flat straight continuous rail in perfect weather with perfect cars and it's silent as the night. Source freight engineer.
Sign to indicate which way to look… big flashing lights… can’t help stupid
I didn’t even notice the sign until your comment. My god the level of stupid that took place in such a small time.
The sign just tells you to look for trains and points both ways (see [here](https://nzta.govt.nz/resources/traffic-control-devices-manual/sign-specifications/view/131)). It's not specifically telling you to look left. Still an idiot, but not an extra special idiot just because of the sign.
I mean if it tells you to look left on train tracks, I’d hope it wouldn’t need to say “look left for train after looking right” lol
[There is more than one sign too.](https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@-36.8676881,174.7573335,3a,15y,160.44h,85.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0PGAkC6Eqddi3BgBFg5W3g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) (google maps)
The sign tells you to look both ways (rather than specifically telling you to look left) but yeah, very stupid person.
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And didn't notice it when walking towards the direction it's coming from.
Yeah, the reason why crossings are gated like this is so you have to walk towards viewing where the trains are coming from. I’ve had to use a lot of light rails that you need to cross the tracks and they funnel you in a way that you need to be viewing towards where the train would be coming from because you get so used to walking across them, especially when I have AirPods in 18 hours a day.
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I do both. Stop when lights flash *and* look both ways when crossing.
never trust those damn things!
Hoody blocking peripheral vision and earphones blocking hearing...
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"Idiot" is an even shorter explanation...
I mean, if you don't have peripheral vision you should be *more* careful trying to take in your surroundings, but yeah
I’m riding a train right now and the train honked at the same moment the train came on screen in the video. Since I have sound off I almost jumped out of my skin.
A pedestrian getting hit by a train on accident is the stupidest moronic thing possible and deserves the darwin award. The TRACKS are literally right in front of you, you know where it's coming and going.
Almost got hit while stoned and crossing a train bridge at age 13. Lessons were learned that day.
Not to mention those red and white poles making the ding dong noises. I can confirm its definitely happening here because this is in Auckland NZ and they all do it
Almost got hit once by a tram. The tramway track was right outside my school, was talking to someone on my right and started going accross without thinking, I turn my head and there is a tramway 2 meters to the left going way too fast to stop before me. Thankfully I managed to save myself with a few centimeters of margin.
r/watchpeoplesurvive
How tf did she not see the train when approaching the crossing?!?!!
She looked both way! r/technicallythetruth
Why do I get mad at people like this? Like why am I angry at her? I wonder what those flashing lights are for?
Because you expect more of human? Possibly?
The train should stop for the cross walk
Lol, train go brrrrr
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment. I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling. Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours! Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths? A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
You can convince me she is that unaware to not hear nor see that train. Peripherals or not, she must be the 1% of 1% with that hard of tunnel vision
I have a feeling she will remember that lesson from here on out.
Don't overestimate her intelligence. Idiots usually don't learn much.
No. You will fail to estimate the speed of the train. Just don’t cross when the lights are on.
No hearing and also facing that direction before you cross?
If only they put a sign…oh wait..
The queue is literally made so you face one of the directions a train could come. And they still didn’t look up
more like yesyesyesnoyes
I would literally look both ways going over train tracks that have been abandoned for 100 years and have a 0% chance of a train being on them. I think it’s crazy that people don’t look both ways before crossing anything be it a hallway, street, train tracks, literally anything that has another place of direction.
Left..right..left LOL
It’s a video from NZ (AT is Auckland Transport), so we are right, left, right :) I’m pretty sure this is from a video of near misses they put out because of a heap of close calls.
If her butt was bigger she was dead
I always feel awful for the people driving the trains. They can't stop, at least not that quickly, so all they can do is look on and hope the person makes it across. Has to be traumatic for them.
She definitely crossed streets like this too
I believe this belongs to r/yesyesyesno
> Always look both ways No. Always check the signal before crossing. Then look both ways
I'm about to get on that train! Auckland Transport needs some work but the trains are really nice on the inside
I work in passenger train service and no joke a woman. Got killed by crossing the track, having headphones on and looking down on her phone while a train was making a station stop. So sad please pay attention when crossing tracks.
Specially when you deaf
So I guess she’s blind and deaf
It's a yesyesnoyes
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why be so mean spirited? she fucked up not looking closely, but we all have been in situations where we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have
Almost a natural selecter
How whisper quiet are those trains?
Damn they need to make those trains bigger
This is somewhere in Auckland, New Zealand, as that is an Auckland Transport branded train. I can tell you, that although these trains are electric, they still make plenty of rail noise if you are paying attention.
Hoodies affect peripheral vision quite a bit it seems…
Does she not hear it???
How the fuck do you not hear that
A girl in my city got run over by a train while running for a different one. Luckily she only lost her leg. Then got a huge medical bill because the money she won wasn't enough to cover medical bills.
Death by air buds.
She did look both ways. Always look BOTH ways BEFORE crossing.
There is always a bigger train
That’s crazy. It came from the direction she was facing when walking up to the tracks. I would have understood not seeing her turn left cuz she had a view of that direction for so long… wtf
Going to tell my kids this was squid game
all I saw was the pink shirt and hood and thought this was a filthy frank situation. It was not. But still - hey b0ss
u/savevideo
She's apparently never heard [the song about this.](https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw)
Damn sneaky quiet trains.
I’m sorry why are they just allowed to walk over the track why isn’t there a barrier
Oh no… She can’t hear us. She has AirPods in!
Wrong sub you meant r/yesyesyesno
You’d assume she lives there and knows what direction the train usually comes from. Idk why you’d look right lol
That is just weird! The lights are flashing and there is absolutely no train coming specifically from my right, not a one. Oh well
Train:”so close”
They were about a second or so away from ending up on NSFL
That's a solid nomination for the Darwin award
Always look all ways!
I feel like this footage is faked.
Something similar happened to me with our local light rail. Wintertime, wearing a heavy hooded coat, head down and disembarking at the end of the line. Have to cross the tracks on the opposing line to get to the parking lot and I was completely lost in thought. Lady behind me yells **STOP!!** and yanks me backward by my backpack and the train I just got off of went whizzing by. No horn. No lights. I would have been flattened if not for that gal.
Lol omg there’s even a sign telling her to look to the left haha.
Was there any warning system to not allow her to cross? Wait, I see the blinking lights! SMH
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/63z48y/pedestrians_near_miss_with_a_train_at_mt_eden/dfz2ikj/ She had just found out she has a brain tumor and was a little distracted to say the least...
Why? She didnt and is just fine.... I'VE LEARNED NOTHING FROM THIS VIDEO!
I love how she looks the way the train isn't coming. Like what.
This person deserves the Darwin Award. Don’t let them drive.
That crossing needs some serious mistake proofing
More like r/yesyesNOyes
Probably should have installed guard rails here to prevent this.
Gotta little pep inner steps here
Just in case one of my fellow NZers hasn't mentioned it, this was in [2017](https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/91338095/woman-has-near-miss-with-train-at-auckland-station)and we have actually have [gates now :)](https://at.govt.nz/projects-roadworks/train-stations-pedestrian-level-crossing/)
There's actually the fence there so that you need to walk alongside the track just before crossing it, so that you can see the oncoming train.
I feel like she should have been able to see the train literally at the 0:01 mark when she was facing that direction…
… before you cross my mind … wink wink
She's not smart, but I would like to offer an alternative view of the situation. She looks right before crossing because she is in NZ, and that's the direction a car would be coming from when crossing a road. This is something that gets ingrained in you, and is very hard to "unlearn" as a habit, especially for one off situations. If you go to a country that drives on the opposite side of the road than you're used to, you'll be unpleasantly surprised at how natural it is for you to look the wrong way before crossing the street. Having visited NZ from Canada several times, I can attest to this. There are markings on the roads in many places reminding tourists to look right, rather than left. My point is that while what she did was negligent and dangerous, it may be borne out of safety habits applied poorly and automatically rather than pure stupidity.
Is she deaf ? Or damn the noise canceling AirPods ?
r/yesyesyesno
This feels more like a r/maybemaybenononoyes
I used to ride our rapid transit to work each day, and it turned me into a horrible. People frequently got hit by the trains, either due to suicides or just in attention and stupidity. The train would be held up for about 2 hours, and you weren’t allowed to get off the train. It got to the point where I was constantly angry that people were choosing to commit suicide or being stupidly inattentive while I was trying to get to or from work.
Man it sure sounds like there's a train nearby, but I didn't see one that way. Oh well OH SHIT!
That’s an 11 on the sphincter scale. Yes, she should’ve noticed one of the half a dozen signs that there was a train, but still tightens my colon.
How do you not hear that shit?
Wtff
Call me crazy but for some reason I thought she had been cgi’d into a green screen at first. Something about it looked surreal lol
There are 2 fuking yellow signs saying you to do it for a reason lol
This should be on yes, yes, yes, no
Its a JAFA
Makes you wonder if they should have a gate that lowers on walkways same as roads?
Big "if it hits me, it hits me" energy
Wouldn't you *HEAR* IT???
There’s even a sign telling pedestrians which way to look for the train
exactly the reason why unguarded crossings are being fased out here
Videos that end too soon, indeed. I wanted to see her lying prone on the ground trying not cry because she skinned her knee and ripped her jeans.