Every near miss has an impact - Rail Safety Week
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2019
- Every single near miss has an impact. Close calls take a huge toll on train drivers and those who narrowly miss death. This video tells their story. Visit nearmisses.co.nz to learn more.
Please stay safe around trains and cross with care -
Kia tūpato te whakawhiti
This video was created for Rail Safety Week 2019, an annual event led by KiwiRail and TrackSAFE NZ. - Авто та транспорт
“Ah yes, the sirens are blaring which means it must be safe to cross!”
*logic*
I don’t get humans
"Ah yes, the 'Everything is fine' alarm."
Ah yes big red signs screaming at u nothing to worry about
big brain
As my mother always says:
"Better lose 15 seconds of your life than your life in 15 seconds"
Wise words.
Wise quote
Good one
She is very right
The russians say that it is better to be home at 6 o'clock than at half past five in the morgue.
I spoke with a locomotive driver (engineer) here in Washington. Train suicides are insanely common here. Multiple per month for BNSF's entire line. He spoke of the sudden terror and regret in the eyes of a woman in her very last moment, when it was too late to change her mind, less than a second before impact.
Blue states on the Left Coast have high rates of suicide. Very sad and unfair for the locomotive drivers.
@@calvinhobbes6118all the states on the left coast are blue. What are you talking about?
@@kassiogomes8498relax
@@kassiogomes8498 isn’t that what they said?
@@calvinhobbes6118 they have an extremely high homeless population because California and the surrounding states are some of the best places to be homeless in America. they have more compassionate homeless laws and infrastructure, more temperate weather on average, and higher donations.
Homeless people from out of state flock to these states for this reason. This skews a lot of statistics because homeless people commit s*icide and abuse substances at a higher rate.
We had a rail accident in my town once. A couple high school kids drove around a crossing barrier and a train hit their car. The news reporter said that the train engineer declined to make a comment. My brother yelled at the TV, "what's he going to say, 'I tried to swerve'?"
Brothers got a point
This is why nobody with more than 2 brain ells watches the news. It literally daycare for handsome adults who are addicted to attention and need to be on camera wearing male makeup
Getting hit by a train isn't an accident, it's an error. An accident is dropping a knife on your foot in the kitchen. Trains only run on tracks and you have to go there and decide to be on the track the same time the train is.
@@aluisious bruh what if ur brake doesnt work? then its an accident dont be dense
@@denissecalle9457 you cant just come to a stop with a train, it takes about a minute to do so, wtf are you trying to say.
How can someone not be super cautious when crossing a railway. I am even paranoid and checking each side like 10 times when there is no warning whatsoever.
Ya me too. It doesn't matter if i'm driving or walking near train trafcks. I always check out if i'm safe to go
But tbh sometimes they fuck it up and so i was driving through train tracks checking out on both sides if there was no train just in case. When i was on the track i saw a train. There was no sirens, no barriers closing the track, no lights... nothing. I thought i will be dead in a matter of few seconds but luckily train wasn't moving. It was just standing still waiting for passengers or train driver was on a break. Either way i thought i won't see another day
@@aregulardude428 probably that was why the sirens weren't off. But yeah, must have been horrible to suddenly see a train and not knowing if you could make it
That's because you have common sense good sir.
I'm guessing here that they go across a cross walk everyday and have gotten a little to familiar with it and feel safer than they should.
I do that even when I know it's an old abandoned rail.
Now imagine how traumatized they are when they actually hit somebody...
If your the person in the train i say just relax, take it easy, it's not your problem.
I would say chill out, take it easy, but you should at least care a little.
If you are feeling helpless.. well perhaps possibly that's because "you are!"
A person is already mentally ill if they think they can stop and prevent every problem on earth.
So instead of worrying about what you can't do, just do what you can do, and be happy.
Sometimes people even drive or run under those things to actually commit suicide. I cant even imagine the trauma and the guilt that the drivers have to experience
Most train drivers retire cause of trauma from those kinds of experiences.
Natalia Sinko
I never understood how someone could commit suicide by throwing themselves under a train, that seems to me like a extremely painful death that could go wrong in so many ways.
Julchen Sweet it’s done because it’s guaranteed to work, it also could be someone’s favorite thing or a good memory so to die by it could be nice
I remember being in a train that rolled over a body, we felt it bump over what at first felt like a log on the line....then the driver announced over the speakers why we were stopped, bless him, he sounded really shaken..
Same thing happened on a train I was on years ago. You could feel the bump as it passed down the length of the train. Everybody knew what it was.
@@revjimbob yep, there's that "oh no" moment 😟. I read later that the man was already dead on the line before the train got to him . A suicide who wanted to leave nothing to chance I think
@@revjimbob This is such a weird thing to lie about. If you were a passenger on a train you would be none the wiser if a body was on track. The force and energy of the moving train would do one of two things; either shunt the body completely off of the track, or instantly sever and destroy whichever part of the body was on the track.
Claiming you could "feel the bump as it passed down the train" is the equivalent of saying you could feel a beetle under the wheel of your car. You simply would never notice it. Stop lying about tragic events for internet points, it's fucking weird.
@@revjimbob yah |Bob stop lying!
@@AngelaH2222 At least it's was a suicide I guess
my grandmother has a saying
"Better late in this world than early in the next"
I don't understand why they would even think about trying to risk that
Because people are fucking stupid
very wise sentence.
Don't be selfish. Cross when it's safe and avoid giving the driver ptsd.
ItS tHe DrIvErS fAuLt! He DiDnT aPpLy ThE bRaKeS iN tImE!
@@cryptfire3158 not everyone can sit back and relax.
@@cryptfire3158 fucking asshole
@@cryptfire3158 lmao
Cryptfire ptsd a serious issue you fucking dolt
Alarm: *Is very loud and obvious*
People: "Ah yes, this alarm scares away trains, it's safe to cross"
lol
Stolen comment
@@ericktheapple3367 ok
@@ericktheapple3367 ok cool
Hungary
A neighbour used to be a train driver here in UK and, if anyone knows the NW of England, there's a line between Southport and Wigan Wallgate. He told me that he ran a dozen people over working that line at the many level crossings on it. Lots of nursing homes around that line with dementia and Alzheimer's sufferers ,who left unsupervised, WILL wander off. He said thats what most of them looked like, confused old folk who just got lost. Six months trauma leave on full pay and compensation. Anytime it happened to a driver, they were told by dispatch NOT to leave the cab and look, even after the emergency services arrived. Never put him off his job and he retired from it at sixty.
I use merseyrail regularly and can confirm there are a lot of old folk in the area. It's so sad to hear whenever something like this happens in my area or anywhere in the world.
I remember working on HMS Raconteer during the falklands war. One of our Harriers crash landed on the flight deck killing all the crew and flight engineers. The scene was horrible, human tissue and the smell of burning, not unlike rashers. I went to help on the flight deck, and remember picking up a human hand, slightly charred above the wrist. I remember thinking, this lark is not for me. I chucked it away and snuck away, avoiding the rest of the ongoings. Many of my shipmates had PTSD for years, thankfully I avoided the worst of the carnage and had a few sneaky beers down in the engine room while everyone else was busy. After the war I opened a small tea shop in hemel hempstead where I am today. No nightmares, no PTSD; all thanks to sneaking away. My mates were uncompensated by the MOD for their efforts; so glad I escaped.
@@burning4902 This never happened. The UK didn't lose any Harriers in carrier landings. Most Harriers lost were shot down by SAMs and of the remaining Harrier losses, two were lost in a midair collision during bad weather and one slid off the deck of HMS Invincible while it was waiting to take off.
Why do people post easily provable lies on the internet? What do you achieve from this? Is it for attention?
@@burning4902 HMS Raconteer? I can't find any ship with that name
I know it's sad and all, but, where do I apply?
I have to confess that a few years ago I was running late for work and I saw my train coming on the other side of the two-way rail. I started running and jumped on the rails at the place where the train is supposed to already stop. I wanted to cross it faster to be able to jump in and not miss my train. As I later realised, that was not my train. It went 2 SECONDS after I crossed the rails and the wind strikes me in my back, I fell on the snow. It was winter morning and it was dark. The signal coming from the driver was so long and loud it sounded like the train was yelling and crying at the same time. The speed was insane. I still feel sorry for the driver and I wish I wasn’t that selfish and stupid back then. I don’t even have that job anymore I don’t care about it. And I almost screwed many lives because of it. I still feel the years tears after that happened. The rest of that day I was just sitting at work shocked. Can’t imagine how tough it was for the driver. I wish I could apologise… Don’t be stupid guys nothing is worth dying and ruining someones life. Be safe!
You wrote this very well!
It moved me (and I'm cautious on train tracks).
Thank you for being kind.
Nice novel you're writing here, you forgot to write "and then everyone clapped"
@@stellviahohenheim this is not at all an unbelievable story lol
@@stellviahohenheim You just saw a video which showed this same story happening various times. The only difference is that this person is describing it from their POV and going into detail 🤦♂
Why? What's the rush? 🤦
Same as on our UK roads. Driver will overtake when its not safe to do so, then 100 metres down the road, turn left into a side road and park up.Totally fucking pointless yet risked their life and others to save nothing on their journey. Every day I have to put up with this sort of behaviour.
Cyber punk secs
No rush
Gotta catch the pokemon
Bro, she said _no one was home_
But when I got there, turns out she meant to say she left her home and moved out. *Titanic theme intensifies*
what’s worse is the idiots who almost got hit blame the driver
stupid people in a nutshell.
Bruh.
@@Khoirul_Anam2 Go spam on another channel..
Naturally
@@_GhostMiner we know it's a natural instinct, it's still stupid
Nearly a year ago exactly I was on a long train home after a wedding. The driver was making an announcement when all of a sudden there was a loud noise that completely drowned out the announcement. It sounded like we hit a rock wall and all we could hear was rocks for a good 10-30 seconds. It was SO LOUD. The train stopped and we stopped for over 2 hours. CSI went down the train in hazmat suits, police and ambulances were called. Eventually the driver announced we had hit someone. I didn't see it, I didn't see the body, and shoes out the window, nothing. But I broke down crying. I was a mess for the longest time. The shock really hit me and others on the train. I still have that voice recording from the driver announcing we had hit a person. Hits don't just affect the driver and the crew, they affect every single person on that train
Something similar happened to me when i was like 7, a train i was on hit someone and we were stuck on the train for hours. My mum lied that there were leaves on the track and she didnt tell me the real reason until i was 12.
In the netherlands we have signs next to crossings saying "talk about it" "talk to us (suicide hotline)" and regular blue signs saying "if you want to stay alive, please wait. There could be another train coming"
But this half cross is a really good idea. The qr codes on the back linked to specific near misses.
We should have the same thing in the netherlands, mainly at crossings near stations. Because thats where most near misses happen currently
Gates lowered, bells ringing, lights flashing, train blowing the horn. Perfect time to cross the tracks.
Are these people blind or idiots?
@@pauljordan4452Both
Well….it won’t be crowded out here.
Natural selection at its finest. If you can't pay attention to your surroundings and walk right in front of a train you deserve to die
Simple as that
@@stanavert905 But then others have to suffer at the hands of your stupidity.
"Dumb ways to die....So many dumb ways to dieeeee"
*Be safe around trains-message from metro*
That show doesn’t come on anymore and it makes me mad.
@@somethinggrand144 if it was shown today, the complaints it would get.
Oh boy... memories
nostalgic memory, i remember playing that game as a kid. lol i’m still a kid rn (i’m 14) but it felt like so long ago
I heard that game is made by a metro company lol.
Someone I knew from high school recently committed suicide by jumping in front of a train. As sad as I was to hear about it, I couldn’t help but think about the poor engineer. This person had already made up his mind to take his own life, so while it’s tragic that he died so young, it was his own choice. The driver had no say in the matter. I imagine it’s hard not to feel at fault, even though there’s nothing you could have done.
Suicide is not a choice, you're delusional and blaming the victims.
I don’t think it’s fair to say the person made this choice, people in that situation often feel incredibly desperate and want to escape some form of pain
Instead of blaming people we should look at our infrastructure, grade separation with elevated tracks are harder to acess and you don’t have pedestrians, traffic, and trains mixing
You can fence them off so it is much harder for people to do something like this
My dad was also struck by a train, likely suicide but Ill never know for sure. I feel for that kid's parents the most... the worst part is imagining how their body got ripped apart, and wondering if they felt anything, or how long were they alive afterwards. It breaks my heart everytime my mind comes up with a new scene of how it all went down. When you are in a deppressed state like that, you simply forget sometimes that there is a person operating the train. Its fucked up but theres no real solution for this, and neither side should be blamed. Mental health and poverty should be taken more seriously.
@@ellewilliams5162 people who choose commit suicide didnt actually choose to commit suicide??
@@banditbuddies728 I don’t know what to think honestly. On one hand, I agree with you but on the other hand, I think of the engineer and how this might affect his life. What if he gets ptsd from it, gets severely depressed and kills himself, too as a result? If you’re depressed and it’s getting worse, it’s your accountability to get help. If you don’t, and this happens, you’re partially to blame imo. Because at some point you were capable of getting help but didn’t. Of course, not everyone can afford help or gets the right help but if you don’t even try when you could, it’s kind of hard not to blame you.
I'm a new train engineer for my local commuter rail, only about 2 months in being licensed, and I've already had more close calls than I care to count. The biggest offenders I've seen typically occur when more than 1 train is in a crossing. We even had a recent incident where a person immediately start crossing right after a freight train passed through, only for one of our trains to meet them on the next track going at a considerable speed. What happened next, I'm sure you can guess.
In the Netherlands, the signs next to practically all bother crossing says "WAIT until the red light is gone. A second train may come" for that reason
God rest that person's soul.
@@gfdx3214YEAH, but people don't care. The only solution Belgium could fine, is removing all the ways that cross a traintracks. This is already almost done.
@@grenade8572 That would be an insane amount of work in the Netherlands. We'd have to start adding hundreds of tunnels everywhere lol
@@YourComputerExpert Belgium is known for its "solutions". 😁
The people crossing the tracks have the instincts of a deer.
no they are just idiots waiting to die.
They just have a death wish.
@@LC-bv1gk lol
@@northwestmechanic8991 ikr
Unfortunately NO! Vast majority of them do not speed up (whilst already on tracks) upon hearing a thundering train, but slow down or stop entirely to turn sidewise to investigate. And this is how most of them die.
Don't worry the train will stop eventually
A mile away
Right 😂😂😂😂😂
But your dead body just keeps on going
Stop a bit slower with blood all over the brakes.
After you’ve been split in half by the wheels
in da 314 no he means 1 MILE
This is a brilliant use of social media to educate. Genius.
Remembers me of a newspaper article ive read. 2 young girls to lazy to go around to the other platform, decided to cross the rails instead, got hit by a passing train....they found parts of them as far as the next city over.
Is that a figure of speech? There's no way they found parts of them a city over
nothing of value was lost
Darwin at work. My sorry to the driver.
@@Azuria969 you're mental for that lad
@@cheman579 truth hurts
Alarm: *ding ding ding*
Pedestrian: "Alright alright, I'll cross, don't go on at me"
People think that you literally could derail a train if you put a single small strand of fabric on the tracks like trains can't stop that fast learn physics people
@@jaydottt_transitfanner wut
Ever heard of f*cking waiting until the train goes by??? Just a thought.
Its ok... but god damn it there is a 7km train
That would be a waste of time
@@forrestrycommitee3808 You're right!
And waste half a minute of my life, just standing!!! Life is precious, don't waste it, it's better to end it rather..
Better to be late than dead
When I was a child, mom would take me to an old mill converted into a fabric store. There was no parking near the mill. We parked in the lot on the other side of an active train track. The lights flashed, the train's horn blared but there were no barriers that came down. Mom and I would stop even if the lights weren't flashing, look both ways, and I would listen for the horn, I has better hearing than mom. Once we had done this, we crossed the track. I still do this to this day. I used to like to watch the train when it went by, and I knew how fast it went. I didn't want to be in front of it, no thank you.
Near misses must be horrifying for both the drivers and the pedestrians. I can only imagine what drivers are feeling in such a situation. Not being able to do much, expecting the worst case scenario. People underestimate how long the braking distance of a train is. My best friend had been sick of his job as a banker and became a train driver for Deutsche Bahn through retraining. He told me that, statistically, every driver will experience *at least* two incidents of personal injury in their career. Fortunately, he has not had such an experience. Yet.
I'm already dreading the day when he can no longer say that.
"Oh look the train is coming, perfect time to cross."
Seriously people, is it so hard to wait for 20 seconds?
Doubt it's 20 seconds Ngl.
Just the other day, a woman was killed and her child seriously injured by TWO light rail trains...her car was hit by one going one way and then by the train that was going in the opposite direction....TWO trains were coming at the same time and she somehow thought it was a good idea to cross. Not to mention the fucking bars that come down that are meant to block cars from entering the tracks...
Some people just don't notice them
I one time did the same ran 2 blocks to beat it, I ain’t waiting 30 min 😂
Liam Collier idiots don’t notice them people that are never aware of their surroundings
Deer: I see a car! Time to cross it!
Human: haha stupid animal... oh a train!
😂
Train: stupid human... oh shit an offrail mountain
@tiffany william I hate the meme format they did it in but loved the humour in it
Try elk in the northern countries or 2m tall big reds in Australia. Just as clueless, twice as destructive.
lmao so true
I was recommended and watched this just yesterday, which is apparently the same day a woman tried crossing a train crossing on foot and, well, she was unsuccessful in crossing. Apparently my dad sort of witnessed it while leaving work, he said that he just saw the metro train slow down then come to a stop. This happened very closento my home, which is situated near train tracks. Its super eerie just thinking about it.
Only seeing this now. Back in 2018, Christmas night I almost ended my life on a train track a small walk away from my house. I now look back and feel so glad I didn’t destroy the life of the person in that train
Hey, I’m glad you made it. And I’m glad you left this comment. I kind of needed to hear something like this right now. So thank you for helping me as well. We’ll never meet, but I hope you continue to do ok and that the life you stuck around for has lots of beauty in it. Thanks
@@lar_s I’m glad I could help. Stay strong!
The mother with her baby should have got charged for criminal negligence.
Saim Shaikh or reckless endangerment
Yes agreed
Child endangerment
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Yes, lets completly ruin somebodues life over a mistake. Maybe a Fine would be more appropriate?
ah yes, "it's not my fault the train driver couldn't stop a fast rolling 600 ton steel tube on rails because I was crossing when I clearly shouldn't be"
I sometimes lose faith in humanity, but not as low as this
100 tons is only the locomotive and maybe the first car. Trains are way heavier than that. Here in Germany, a double decker regional train weighs about 600-700 tons, and goes 120-180kph. There is absolutely no way on earth that this thing could stop in time, and people tend to forget about that.
@@RatorLPThank you for the clarification, much appreciated my friend ♥️
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Stop being so dramatic geez
@@RatorLP true even after being hit the train is most likely to continue going for a bit
I used to take a secondary highway for my commute to school when I was younger, and there was an express passenger rail track that intersected the road on a curve. One morning I came around that curve, the crossing lights weren't engaged, but a train blew past the front of the car at over 100 km/h.
I almost peed everybody's pants.
You definitely become more aware of trains after that.
Plus, living next to train tracks for a few years, it's wild how many people are killed and maimed at a single pedestrian crossing or shortcut.
Four kids from our school hit a train in the middle of the night while driving home, all dead. I didn't know any of them, but just attending the memorial was the strangest feeling, I don't even want to imagine what the person manning the engine must have felt like. The near misses were extremely lucky, trains can and will hit you if you mess around.
People nowadays be like:
If the train doesn’t stop for me, it’s the train driver’s fault!
Lol
karens be like:
Oh and he is honking at me i will sue hi( bang) ... And now you can imagine the rest of the story.
Ray Dai
No, a normal human being wouldn’t be that stupid. What you are talking about is a psychopath ...
Karens
Trains have been around almost 200 years and we still can't learn to get out of the way
I think it's "natural" reaction to just run, run wherever you want to go.it's like siren tells you to do so.I am not psychologist but l would make a suggestion to change siren to: Stop Stop call or something like that.
Humans have devolved into privileged a-holes.
Yes, because the train is leaving its track and chases you totally unexpected - there is no way to determine beforehand where the train will have its path if you stare at your phone the whole time...
@Krabby Krab tell that to city leaders who keep telling people that its really expensive to do
And we also still wonder how birds get hit by cars when they can fly
Trains take a very, very long time to brake. The sheer horror of stories of deaths by train are heart-wrenching, especially for those who witnessed it. There is a train station near where I live. It’s a college town, and college students are everywhere. Unfortunately, two have been hit by trains in the last few years and died. It’s absolutely terrifying, and I feel horrible for the witnesses and the driver of the train who couldn’t do anything to stop it
One time as a kid I wittnessed wht I thought was going to end in a tragedy. Me + my family were standing close to a railroad crossing, waiting for the train to pass, when a car hit the 1. barrier full speed and crashed through it, but didn't make it through the 2. one, so he was stuck on the tracks (at least for some time). The train driver luckily managed to stop with more than enough distance, but it scared the crap out of me. We found out later that it had happened because the driver was quite old and had confused the brakes ads gas.
Nothing terrible even happened that day, but stuff like this still gives me the shivers, so I can't even begin to fathom what it must be like to witness such close calls as a driver on a more drequent basis.
What a shame
*People almost getting hit by the train*
My anxiety: 📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈
I couldn't finish the video.
@BigTestes your right, I shouldn't worry, it is every man for theirselves
*people ALMOST getting hit by the train*
my happiness ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌
Excellent use of a rarely utilized emoji!
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The worst thing you can experience isn't getting hit by a train, its hitting someone with a train knowing that you can't do anything to stop it.
Well, I guess if there was something they could do about it, and didn't, would be worse. More guilty
No. Knowing you can do something about somebody’s death is way worse than not being able to do anything
@@orangejuice8991 what is a train driver supposed to do when someone crosses the tracks like that? They can't just stop the train...
@@zacastica that's not what they were trying to say at ALL by that reply.
@@zacastica thats exactly what the main comment said. You know you can't do shit.
An 18 wheeler hit us. He wasnt paying attention. He stopped as fast as he could snd super fast ran back our car. It was in CT in 92. He was literally green. We eere in such shock ee didn't realize until 18 hours later we were injured. That poor man. We've often wondered how he is. His face showed his fear. Sir, we forgave you during the accident. Both my friends driving skill and yours kept us alive.
I tried reading your comment but it’s impossible.
@@sforza209 Try practicing reading with some middle school books that are easy but still challenge you :) You will improve quickly :)
This has made me reflect on how often I j-walk in front of speeding traffic on busy roads, I've thought in the past about how it could make drivers anxious but like the person said in the video it's a split second decision I've always made and I didn't think about how it could effect others in the moment.
People when crossing roads:
Looks on the left and right
People crossing railroads with an approaching train at high speed:
*H I T M E !*
You would think right? I stopped my car on the crosswalk to let a pedestrian pass and she looked in the opposite direction while walking across the second lane.
She didn't even see the car that hit her and sent her flying more than 20 feet. Almost died right there. Driver was at fault but if she was looking in the direction of oncoming traffic she could have saved herself.
“Ah yes, the train will simply stop to let me pass”
@@zainlookboonmee just yesterday i was on my bike and this woman literally does not look anywhere and walks calmly and slowly across the street. now its not a busy road but when people go down it they give full gas so shes lucky on my bike i just went around her.
but i just thought in my head in a few years i will be a truck driver. theres no way i couldve avoided her in a truck.
МРЪСНА ГАЗ These people are being so careless with their lives.
Longbeachgriffy 😂😂😂
Especially bad when it’s a parent driving a car and the kids in the back seat have no choice
Especially bad when you took your son on a train ride because he really wanted to
I wrote a comment about this. My second cousin did it. He and his son died, while his sons friend ended up in a wheelchair...
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 😨😨😨
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 scary chills
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 Oh! God 😲😢
Where I live, we have the oldest rail bridge in the entire world, built by Ralph Wood. He jumped off to to his death before it was opened in 1726, convinced it would fail. It's still there now, with it's sundial reading R.A.Wood, Mason.
That's an amazing campaign. In The UK we have a barrier that stops people crossing the tracks when trian is coming.
what does trian do? is he the ancient Scottish VIking who wandered off?
Being a train driver in the UK, its not nice killing someone, I've had 2 suicides in 40 years. My first in 2010 was horrendous and a day ill never forget.
I hope to be an urban designer one day. How can we improve the design of crossings to ensure these incidents happen less often? Your input would be very much appreciated and it is often overlooked by planners and architects. I live in horribly designed sububs where noone rides our public transit.
They should put the train driver's cab at the very back of the train so he sees nothing. he just drives a train. and all the automatic stop lights and guards? Either they work or they don't and if they don't? not driver's fault. just keep on (training) who cares.
And the second you just forgot?
Evan If only our politicians would looks at RESEARCH before approving crazy projects
@@evnejg94 Use bridges and tunnels instead. I don't think there is anyway to avoid some stupidity and/or negligence on behalf of the public using crossings. You might be able to get away with constantly monitoring the crossings to have someone always watching for idiots?
Dumb ways to die: “be safe around trains”
Me: “what kind of idiot would walk that close to an oncoming train?”
(Sees this video)
“Huh... they do exist”
I read idiot as idiotic...
So you play that game too?
Friz Trooperz I was referring to the original song. The game looked neat but I never played it.
You know dumb ways to die was actually created by metro because of the many deaths by falling in front of a train
Stxr KillerX and then they die
As someone who saw a deer get hit by a huge semi point blank and it flew across a 3 lane highway right in front of my car with its stomach cut wide open. I cant imagine the trauma of someone getting hit with a train or even a near miss.
Thoughts like this have been running in my mind for years.
Nobody:
Pedestrians in front of trains: *brake check*
Nobody:
Idiots: Stop! This is Mandatory annual brakes check
nobody:
redditors adding nobody: to their memes to make them "funnier":
@@eater9494 Buddy you messed up the meme format, you didn't even put "Redditors:". Also it's a meme, let people have some fun you absolute sad half-empty moldy condensed milk carton
@@ellies_silly_zoo Ok!!! :) I Have lernned from my mist takes and will NOT!!!!! REPEAT AGAIN.... :))))
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Stupid people: oh yeah, I'm gonna cross without looking. Surely the tons of steel will stop on a dime.........
Smart woman. You know the weight of trains. God bless you.
Stupid people: Yes, this 30 ton steel transportation system will stop within milliseconds!
@@ggssdfn 30 ton is not even one fully loaded truck. We're talking about a 1000 ton at least.
Funbag man Yeah😂
They should know that the trains gain a lot of Kinetic Energy when the are on their trips and when they get to stations, the wheels on the train are stopped in order to stop the train but when this occurs the train has too much Kinetic Energy and the friction between the stopped wheels and the track will not stop the train immediately due to the amounts of Kinetic Energy the train has but the friction between the wheels and the track will slow down the train until it stops, so the barricades at the edge of the road stop people from driving their cars over the track and the siren tells people that there is a fast moving train approaching them because they aren’t very close to the area the train becomes stationary at and yet they still believe that the trains will stop immediately for them despite the clear warnings and the train itself barreling down the track towards them. If I we’re then I wouldn’t even try it because no one wants to get crushed by a train or have its high amounts transferred to them.
One of my friends jumped in front of a train almost ten years ago. When i get depressed I think about joining him but after reading the horror the conductors go through I chose not too.
A little bit of patience never hurt anyone. Where ever you're going, it will still be there. Its not just trains, its everything. I see people driving through red lights all the time. I actually had someone behind me get angry and honk their horn at me because I actually slowed down and stopped when the traffic light turned red. I've had cars almost hit me running a red light while I was in the middle of the cross walk. On the other side, I've had people step right in front of me in a crosswalk thinking I could just stop on a dime. I never do, I just keep going, they get the message. There are people out there who just do not care about the safety of others or their own. Its crazy. So many people are killed and injured in transportation accidents every year yet we seem to think it will never happen to us. Until it does.
It's has nothing to do with being impatient, it's people who are distracted and self centered
I live in Norway. There is only a single city in South-West Norway that has traffic lights, which is Sandnes and it is miserable driving there. Roundabouts helps so much with maintaining the flow of traffic.
Why would someone have a baby carriage and run in front of a train, or run in front of a train generally.
Don't mind me, I'm just trying to prove Darwin wrong.
When I used to work at a busy mall here known for the horrible traffic in the parking lot, I saw SO many people push their baby carriages into the road literally as a way to make the cars stop so they could cross. Sure it's all relatively slow compared to street traffic, but all it takes is one inattentive driver on their cell phone to turn it into a tragedy. So yeah, you'd think people would be more careful with their own children, but....
Jimorian damn
@@Jimorian that is heartbreaking and psychotic that people would use their small children to get some sort of advantage in traffic, seriously
She couldn't get an abortion, so she's tryna do it the "humane" way; By "accident".
I had a long talk once with a locomotive driver that ran over 3 people who committed a suicide on the rails on different incidents. He told me that their faces (from their last moment before their hit) are hunting him everywhere, and it never goes away. He even took long brakes from work, took therapy, but the sights never left him. Be careful out there, people! You're risking other people's lives, as well! Your actions will have consciousness on other people. Bare this is mind! *Your life is precious!* 🙏
suicide is a huge trigger for me so idk why i continue to read stuff like this. not saying you need a trigger warning or anything, its my fault for reading it the whole way through, i knew what i was reading, im just saying idk WHY i continue to
@@jpassa9093 it should be a trigger not to do it. Like why would you want to force someone else to witness your death and make them feel responsible. Also my dad tried to kill himself on train tracks once and a girl saved him and forced him off. He's so grateful now because he would've never met my Mom and had us. Life's so much more than sadness and self pity.
How would you know if anyones life is precious?
@@thebestplayer9811 all life is.
@@jpassa9093 That is your opinion. But who decides that in the end of the day?
It's both comforting and terrifying knowing that people being stubborn or oblivious resulting in tradgedy is a worldwide thing.
You know what'd be super ironic, if someone started watching one of those QR code videos of nearmisses, got distracted and got hit by a train.
I'm feeling really lucky to have this thing called common sense.
Yeah, it's not so common now, is it?
I'm feeling really lucky having this thing called brain
@@j.franklin21 Sadly, no. Common sense is becoming increasingly rare.
@@taylorsworkshop3764 everyone has a brain, but some people have opted not to use theirs.
@@spencerchappell6341 probably because of 9/11 and then the few idiots born after it who think they are gods
We always talk about the people who committed suicide on train tracks but nobody talks about how guilty but helpless the driver would've felt.
Disagree, that’s all I think about in relation to people who commit suicide this way. It’s incredibly selfish
Sarah Elizabeth I agree, I’ve been the on the train before when a poor soul took their life and you would not believe the comments from people within the train , about how selfish the poor person was.
@@gabriellamayes9134 yeah, it is selfish to kill yourself that way. Absolutely no thought for those who have to clean up the horrible mess or deal with PTSD. I understand some peoples lives reach that much of a crisis that they can’t consider it, though.
Life is selfish. None of us asked to be here. That’s something someone else chose for us.
@@sarahelizabeth2359 you stop giving a shit when you’re suicidal
Fantastic program! Wish we had something similar in the states.
Fun fact: If you die from being hit by a train in the US, your death certificate will say, "death by trespassing" because you will have died while trespassing on the tracks.
I almost died this way while running along some railroad tracks with my cross-country teammates. We did not hear the horn until the train was almost upon us, and, unfortunately, I was on the same track as the train. I tripped and fell as I was trying to get off the tracks, but fortunately, I landed safely away from the train. However, the train's wake shoved all of us down a steep ravine, and we all got hurt pretty bad. Deep cuts and broken bones were enough to make us think twice about going down there again, but I pray that someone else will learn from my stupidity and stay away from train tracks. If you have to cross, obey the signals. I'd rather wait than get dragged for a mile.
cellogirl11RW surely when you were doing this you must have thought the train tracks weren’t a great option?
@@smurphy2146 there are a lot of abandoned rail roads in the US, it's not too unlikely they figured they could easily get out of the way if a train is coming, maybe they thought it would come from the front or smth.
Wait seriously, I used to run on train tracks during cross country too. Could you not hear the train long before it arrived, horn or not? I'd figure a train would be pretty loud when you are running on the tracks
@@nonwibb it's not. The rails are build to transfer the energy to the ground, so vibrations won't reach very far. A train is sometimes more silent than a car.
The horn is pretty loud, but if you are unlucky, the conductor cannot see you, till the impact is only 4 seconds away.
@@bendervorleser8906 Then why in my experience are trains so absolutely loud, rumbling everything within 5 miles? I still don't get it
I don't feel bad about natural selections but I feel bad about the innocent drivers who suffer psychologically.
Totally agree it must be horrible to know a life got took by them not stopping
Same here
@@gallowaygaming75 nope
Glen Galloway they can’t stop
@@gallowaygaming75 it goes two ways, it either gets mundane for them after they see 10 living things splatter on the front of the cabin or they get scarred and quit, possibly going a downward spiral
Railways are no joke. I saw a woman walking across a platform without noticing the train coming towards her. It caught her by the leg and she was folded in half in less than a second.
We need this in Canada. There's still too many death related to people who try their luck and weren't lucky that day.
I remember my first pedestrian strike. I could see the expression her face and that she had blue eyes. She had a look of confusion, as to why we weren’t stopping. She just kept walking, not hurrying. You can hear and feel the bones breaking as the vibrations are transmitted thru the locomotive’s steel frame and into the seat. My conductor was shaken. I had to walk back. As I walked back, all the sounds were muted... except the crossing bells. They were blaring. I first came to her shoes. They were peculiarly standing at the side of the mainline where she would have been. . One of her shoes( they were brown Ugg boots ) was on its side, the other was standing up with a sock halfway hanging out. On the adjacent track was her body. A sack of bones slumped over a rail. One foot had a sock that was half way off, the other foot was bare. As I approached, her dog was curled up beside her. It jumped up and started barking. It knew something bad had happened. All I Could think to say to the dog was “I know”. I approached the woman. Her body was trying to move. I could only assume it was the last throws of death. I knew nothing was okay. I knelt down beside her, and whispered “Ma’am, help is on the way”. I stayed there until the first responders arrived.
Later that morning I found out her name. She was the exact same age as me. She had three sisters. She was a single mother, who left her 6 year old daughter and a dog behind.
Shit. that.. that is horrible. Are you alright now?
And what do you mean with my first pedestrian strike?
@@-Ailyn_ Thanks for asking.
Hope your doing okay. And remember it wasn't your fault ❤
This could be straight out of a horror film, it's terrifying how things can go from fine to horrible just by getting 1 step closer to the train.
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I love that half-cross display they use. It symbolizes a close call with death, it plays off the actual crucifixes you see roadside at the sites of fatal crashes. And the line-into-a-bar shape shows where the person luckily stopped, or from where they safely emerged, depending on its orientation.
It also looks a lot like a railway semaphore signal (I had to look up the term for it, but associated them with Buster Keaton).
not all people are christian.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Crucifixion was a Roman form of punishment centuries ago. Very common. It's history. Learn to accept it.
And it's placement forces people to stop so it could potentially save lives before people have even loaded the video, it's very clever
@@rizkyadiyanto7922A form of iconography having religious roots does not preclude it from being generally recognized iconography
This is a damn good ad. This idea about watching near misses on barcodes needs to be a worldwide thing
No way. Tick Tockers will be competing to see whose video shows them running the closest to the train so their video gets put on the signs and gets the most views.
That is so cool! We need to do this everywhere to get people to think before crossing. People don't care or they don't look or they are distracted. This could be a good eye opener for them.
Unbelievable, their heads are probably emptier than a hermits address book 🙄
My address book is non existent just like their brain. No need to compliment me mate!
If it doesn't have any addresses, it's not an address book.
Gotem
Their heads are as empty as flower pots
A relative used to work the underground in London UK, After a suicide hit his train he became distant and secluded himself to the front room where he would spend his days in silence just looking out the window. He was such a good man and now all that was left was this empty shell.
I came over a hill with my truck and hit a car stopped on the other side. Thankfully it was a slow impact as I had a few seconds to react. I had nightmares almost nightly for years. That helpless dread knowing you're about to crash with little hope for the other person. Luckily for me I woke up every time. Some aren't that fortunate.
I live in London and some of my colleagues were on the tube when somebody threw themselves under it and they were all traumatised for the day as they could hear them crunching under the carriage and they didn’t even see it, so lawd knows how it feels for the driver.
Stop abusing train driver just imagine how he will feel inside his heart.. that's not fun people open your mind
Probably traumatized
Close your eyes so you don't see their faces. Been there, bought the t-shirt.
Why?
And the fact that the train drivers are the ones responsible. Man humans have no heart
@@gerrard1144 The people who jump in front of trains are responsible, the train drivers can't do anything...
Alarm: *DING DING DING!!*
People: Its safe to cross, trains hate this alarm!
rofl
@@HacksignKT sw player?
@@dilyn7262 star wars? no I played warcraft, been thinking about resubbing you?
Ive seen this happening spomany times and btw I could hear Jeremy talks for hours ngl, very soothing.
My husband works at a train company (thankfully not as a driver). But he sometimes has to drive where somebody got hit to make sure the emergency personnel is save while clearing the tracks.
So he has some stories. Many people are blaming trains "that were not supposed to be there". Just because a train doesn't stop at the station and is therefore not announced. People never consider other trains that just pass by.
Imagine how heavy it is mentally for those train operators. Stacking up for every near miss.
@ぐ〈ツ ベーー ー ー ー ー that's a cursed comment if ever I've seen one
@ぐ〈ツ ベーー ー ー ー ー lmao
ぐ〈ツ ベーー ー ー ー ー omg LOL that’s cursed
Will being 30 seconds late kill you? Cause arriving on time might.
Amen. It's not worth your life to rush. Sure, you might be late, but you'll get there, alive and intact.
@I’m only Human no, I'm afraid this isn't church
@I’m only Human Hey, another human themed username!
@I’m only Human The ability to speak does not make you intelligent
You could be wait for the train to pass and be fatally hit by a car that pulled out of the driveway 30 seconds later than usual. I don't want people to do stupid shit like this, but life is worth rushing half of the time, because of something doesn't kill you now, it will later
@@Park_Place bro why you getting so mad they didn't even say anything offensive
Where I live in Melbourne they are getting rid of all of the level crossings and either making a bridge over them or under them, prior to that they had gates that close as soon as the lights start flashing so people couldn't get past
That's actually a really clever campaign. Nice one, Kiwis. 👍🏻
Damn, in Mongolia, whenever there's a train passing through the city, as soon as the alarms go off, a guard comes out of the small rail station hut next to the road and prevent every pedestrian from crossing even though the train is quite far away. One time I almost got beat up by the guard with a baton when I tried to run for it.
honestly? I think that's the only option :)) apparently people learn only from fear of something they've seen/experienced before... so maybe use those wild-thrill-seeking pedestrians as a punching bag and I'm pretty sure next time they will check twice...
Exaggerating now, but I think a guard/officer + the right for him to give out fines or even a few hours jailtime for something like " threat to national security by trying to block the railway system " - turning this into a serious offence, will teach them a lesson... right?! :))
We used to have that in Australia but over the decades they got rid of the station masters in the huts.
@Gaming ZONE GAZO
Aren't the guards in India there to ensure no cow is injured on the train tracks??
@Gaming ZONE GAZO
But what about all those poor cows?
@@MICHELLE-gu2qc there was still a manual operated one in Brighton in 2011 I believe (with a guy in a hut)
i just realized this video has almost twice as much views as the entire population of New Zealand… you guys made a good job spreading the word!
I never realized so few people lived in New Zealand before
Not all from NZ, some from other places, me included.
Yes. Excellent idea! Talented people should be rewarded.
@@pixelzebra8440Even fewer now as the Aus government is importing labor voters fleeing their current lefty nigthmare 🥲
@@ThePsicloneThat is what OP was implying. They never said the views were all kiwis
I wish the rail crossing near me even had a bell, you have no choice but to peek around to see if a train is coming lol.
my father working at the SNCF told me a lot of horrible things that he saw.
a man who was on the rails and who lost his leg
and a woman who got out of the train while the train was traveling 180 km away!
She fell into the tracks and died.
The worst thing i heard was that most of the victims actually look up at the train cab and it affects the drivers horribly
Pedestrian or driver acts like an idiot; engineer has to see a shrink and/or take meds for the rest of his life.
@@donaldthomas7070
A friend of mine years ago used to work for the railway police in the UK, he reckoned to have at least 1 suicide a week on his patch, and it’s not a pleasant job collecting the pieces up, body parts can be strewn up to hundreds of meters along the track.
Likely it would have a lasting effect on the driver/engineer.
I can confirm
Or at least that's how it was (would be) for me with a car driver.
I was crossing a road and the wind for some reason sounded like a speeding car, my first instinct was to run while taking a wide step and looking straight at what the driver would normally be, and then there was nothing - just the wind lol
Please don't mock mental health issues. The person being hit is the victim the driver is paid to drive the train. Don't like the job don't do it.
@@fwwryh7862the driver is being paid to drive the train not kill people, go spit your bullshit somewhere else you retard
1:48 I thought she actually got hit
She ALMOST did tho, you can see her crossing the road shortly after.
Imagine being an inch away from getting ripped apart by a train and you stop to see what went pas like it wasn’t detectable from a mile away
I think she can forget about ever winning the lottery.
@@billyherrington6663 Kacper
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She turned on her noclip exploit at the last second.
There is a railway in my neighborhood that has been disconnected from the grid since last year, its still there but no trains can get onto it, I've crossed that railway for the past 12 years, even tho its impossible for a train to be on it, I still look both ways everyday.
There needs to be some kind of turnstyle or gate at crossings which locks when the alarm is going, with some kind of sensor to understand when someone is crossing and give them time to get over before locking behind them.
Enough room on the inside of the gates to stand by the gate as the train passes if you get stuck.
My heart goes out to all the train drivers who have to deal with this stupidity🥺
Likewise.
@Random kitty half of New Zealand does this type of stuff
Riding a scooter in United Kingdom is perfectly safe
But driving in New Zealand is dangerous
There’s always a retard in a Ute tailgating you
Same.
And my heart also goes out to everyone inconvenienced by such stupidity, like delayed passengers or customers awaiting late arriving freight. There's no excuse for such stupidity.
Please don't mock mental health issues. The person being hit is the victim the driver is paid to drive the train. Don't like the job don't do it.
This happened to an elderly couple a while ago. They were crossing the tracks of the light rail system I ride home from work. One got killed, one was in critical condition. The driver was treated for shock. I was a few stops behind when this happened. The trains had to stop and we all got out and had to take a bus instead. I guess older does not mean wiser.
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Nah when you get older you'll get slower....
When people say they are wiser as they age
They mean they already made mistakes and learned, not that they are perfect or intelligent XD
I'd say the old are more experienced (Obviously) instead of wiser
Sometimes wisdom comes with age.
Sometimes it doesn't
You have cameras over every intersection but not working boom gates? That's an odd prioritization isn't it?
A village I onced live in had a bridge for pedestrians at the train station which was handy as I was scared of walking over the track.
Loud Alarm: ***Rings***
People: *so anyway i started walking.*
Woman: look right. No train. Get halfway across and then look left. Near miss.
seems weird she didn't see it the first time she was walking strait toward it.
There's a reason most railways don't allow hoods to be worn. They fuck with your peripheral vision in a big way. Hats only.
@@capnskiddies then add the twatwaffle idiocy; what, no texting while crossing?? where's her phone?
That last one was ABSOLUTELY NUTS. They even stopped, probably thinking they were dead. They all notice there's a train. They just don't care.
Theres supposed to be a banner/stick thing that comes down almost immediately after the siren/alarm starts ringing to prevent people from still attempting to cross the tracks! You have one everywhere in my country Great Britain.
They are just playing “Dumb ways to die 2”
Real life edition
lmao
@@froztytrainfilms9148 y e s
But they cant retry....
@@racingraptor4758
Is because is hardcore mode ;))