Frightening Footage of Sussex Level Crossings: Network Rail's Summer Safety Warning
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Network Rail has released a harrowing video showing the dangers of misusing level crossings across Sussex. As the summer holidays begin, it's crucial for everyone, especially children and their parents, to understand the risks and stay safe.
Watch the video to see real incidents and learn why it's vital to respect the railway. Remember, even one near miss is too many. Stay vigilant and spread the word to help save lives.
When a dog has more of a safety sense than a human!
Yes, but surely everyone knows that dogs have more sense than humans, silly! 😉
The dog looks more like it was distracted by something behind them. It doesn't know what a rail crossing is and it's not even looking in the direction of the train.
@@andypalin3287 I think you mean "more sense than dog owners". Not "more sense than humans".
@@chrisamies2141 we’ve got places to be not wait around like you. You probably drive at 25mph in a 30 lol
More IQ
Nothing infuriates me more than seeing adults in charge of children encouraging them to take risks instead of teaching them to behave responsibly.
That’s because adults just let their kids do exactly what they want nowadays
@@mikes5637 Children should be encouraged to take risks. Nothing wrong with that.
*However* , there is a world of difference between teaching a child how to assess *worthwhile* risks and what we see happening here.
I don't he was telling us not to kakw kids take risks...but to do so with common sense is where its lacking in these videos. Like utter braindead@@thomasm1964
@@thomasm1964 Blah BLAH BLAH
True enough.
Lets not forget the train drivers and those witnessing these.
Yes, absolutely!
@@gazza2933 I have worked on The Railway for nearly 35 years and some of the stunts I have seen on level crossings and taking short cuts across the main line are simply staggering. These idiots just don't seem to realise that if it goes wrong for them, it's all over.
And us watching it.
@@stephensmith4480 maybe they do, they just don't care
Many have been traumatised for life because of morons like this
They all seem to be in a hurry, but something tells me these people have nowhere to be. Today or in life.
Comment of the month, right this here.
Seem in a hurry to get to the next life.
Not the guy with the bicycle at around 0:40. He seems to almost take a nap on the railway.
And a severe lack of imagination.
This is deep
0:38 this one is outright insane. Dude literally stared at the oncoming train for a solid 2 seconds like a deer
I suspect he was offended that the driver gave him the horn - "How very dare y.." splat!
This is why natural selection exists
@@MrStark-up6fi You don't seem to have even the faintest grasp of what natural selection is.
He was just checking if it's going or incoming
@_randolph2200 that actually could be a good reason, but i think it could be easy to tell if its heading to or away from you by if the headlights are on or if they are red. At least, thats what on/red lights mean on american trains, since a bright white or yellow headlight means "approaching", and red lights means "going away."
I don’t understand how people value their life so much little. They can spend hours on their phones but can’t wait a few seconds or minutes for a train to cross?! Smh
So much little💀 how are there no comments lmaoo
Bro trying to be my english teacher
@@Peek-A-Boom1 Fun fact: Not everybody is fluent in English and have other languages they speak 🤯
I was a Signalman for 24 years and saw many of these incidents. It still amazes me now I'm retired, as to how some got away with their lives.
Down to Sussex is a lovely BTF film
@@NigelOrmsvik lolllllllll
L mamz
@@NigelOrmsvik So many Darwin Award candidates that the human gene pool wouldn’t miss …
Shame shame Rail
Gene pool?! More like a gene puddle!
almost a gene smear.
@@telmas7183 Gene poodle 🐩
Fun fact: apparently,poodle is the second most intelligent breed of dog,after border collie.
@@rjjcms1 Indeed, an old girlfriend of mine had a standard poodle, very clever and a decent guard dog as well.
@@mickg7299seems that even the dog in one of these clips had more sense than it's owner, and wasn't even a poodle or border collie! 😂
That cycle accident. Looked like a clip from Charlie Chaplin
It just needs a old-time vaudeville piano track
More like a couple getting together.
I thought the top cyclist actually veered directly into the other cyclist.
The one who steered had a brain glitch.
At least the lad who went to assist had the sence to look left then right ...
0:16 The dog was like “ _You’re gonna get both of us killed you idiot.._ ”
🤣🤣🤣
even He knows that messing with trains and active level crossings are dangerous
Jesus, there is no intelligent life
He must have muttered that to himself at least once or twice.
In Sussex.😂
@@FSandG yes, Jesus knows that
@@rjjcms1 lol probably. Hypocrite 😂
@@FSandG well safely regulations allowed them to multiply.
I hope they got the reg of the transit flat bed that damaged the gates and sent them the bill
The dropside Transit is likely to have an untraceable owner, with no MOT and the VED hasn't been payed.
@@iwb316 on their way to “ find” some trackside cable
@@dwrowley Travellers
@@ramblingrob4693 You bet
Exactly.
Scariest thing is these idiots can vote governments in. No wonder we're in a mess. Appalling.
Scarier still, some of these people are likely to have a driver's licence.
I watched a video yesterday in Birmingham asking people the most basic questions you could think of and they got every question wrong... Even a financial adviser couldn't answer a simple maths question... We're shafted!
@@user-um1xt3kh And raise children.
This is how natural selection works....
@@pc750-V4 : yes, but it's clearly not working well enough.
@@pc750-V4 it’s artificial selection
@@smhorse give it time 😂
Non-survival of the dumbest.
Problem is, nowadays we let everyone breed... no more selection anymore
Only last week, I stopped at a level crossing because the red lights were flasing. East coast main line with trains going 120mph+. The driver behind me got out, banged on my window and told me I was a farking idiot because I had "plenty of time" before the barriers came down.
@@SteveHuntingdon you should have told him to go ahead! What an idiot
@@SteveHuntingdon should have told him it's your life not his
@@SteveHuntingdon for some reason people don't treat flashing red as stop, the same way they would treat a red light at a junction. Seems like they need to be literally restrained by a physical barrier to stop them darwinning themselves. Good on ya for stopping!
@@LiamBushrod Actual restraint is far better (and more grammatically correct) than literal restraint. 🤣
Just because Americans overuse and misuse the word literally, it doesn't mean you should.
Makes me wonder if the driver who got out of the car and banged on the window is competent to continue driving...
1.22 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this clip is full of darwin award nominees
I had to go back and rewatch several times. I figure the cyclist in black was slightly more in the wrong, on the wrong side of the road, but then again the blue cyclist had already centred up. They both should have stopped ahead of time, but the black cyclist seemed to make things worse.
Yea both were in the wrong but the guy in black made things worse.
@@johnbeech there's no more in the wrong here
1:22
For over thirty years I worked in railway maintenance. Inspecting and testing the level crossing equipment after an incident had been reported was a common occurrence. Vehicles if they clipped a barrier would often damage it. The reckless drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, as well as putting their own lives at risk, also affect other people. The train driver, the signaller, the passengers on the trains (subsequent delays may affect other trains) and the maintenance staff who have to go out in all weathers to bring the crossing back into normal use again. And all because they were inpatient and self centred.
“Daddy, what’s a cretin?”
“Watch this video, son.”
The only people I feel for here are the train drivers
To say some people are dumb is an UNDERSTATEMENT. 😵💫
0:36 Guy looked like he considered for a moment if he wanted to end it
You made me re-watch that clip, and I'm in agreement with this - He sprints over the first road, then stops _squarely_ in the four-foot of the second. His body-language is also very consistent with that of a person having those thoughts¹. 😢
(¹ - Regrettably, I know this all too well for having been in the same place myself recently - Thankfully not so close as standing in the four-foot in front of an approaching train, but dangerously close to it. Ironically enough; In my case this was for things to do with the non-acceptance of the consequences of historical abuse on the person, and non-acceptance of the limitations of non-chosen disabilities, on the part of a Spanish train driver... 💔😢)
0:34 ok this guy was definitely considering it
Where the two bikes crashed, the pedestrian looked before crossing. I have seen a heritage railway foot crossing used as a place to take pictures. They stand in the four foot while the train is going towards them.
These idiots see Heritage trains as harmless toys that cannot hurt them, unlike "real" trains.
I reran that particular accident many times. It just makes no sense, albeit both were on the wrong side of the road before it happened. What in the world was the one in black thinking to veer across to hit the other?
@@freeman8128 True, with crossings guarded by actual people they even are offended when they are being dragged off of the tracks.
Some people have no sense at all.
@@stephensaines7100 they are on the wrong side, and one turning even more so, to avoid the barriers as they close. The entry barrier lowers before the exit barrier. So they both have no excuse to be there at all. As for the path the one entering the screen from the top/right took - just bizzarre. But then, if they are smooth brained enough to jump the lights then even they won't be able to convey to a normal human what they were trying to acheive.
calculated risk
All those people need to be charged. Imagine being the train driver that's held responsible and/or has to witness someone being splattered by a train!!
stuff people do.....but those bikers took the bisquit....unbelievable.....
It's the same when you're driving and you see an idiot. You always want to ask them "What if there's another idiot coming the other way?" Well, these two tried it
@@stratman9449 “Break right”…”your right or my right.”
@@stratman9449 Bisquit? Don’t you mean biscuit. I like dark chocolate digestive biscuits 🍪
0.06 Train hidden behind a train, always one to watch out for.
You won’t have to watch out for them if you just wait for the barriers
What? They crossed when the barrier was down!
I didnt notice that, they assumed the barrier was down for the first train, so they crossed as soon as it passed, not realising another train was coming from the other direction. Obviously there is an easy way to avoid this by not crossing while the barrier is down. But I did wonder how they hadn't noticed that train coming until you pointed it out.
@@concept226 Used to cross a double line most days via a public footpath, over the 6 years I was there I've seen people stepping out as soon as the up line carriages pass while a train creeps up unheard unseen on the down line, seen a few close misses, I know of a few hit in other locations.
Yea he not only crosses when the barriers where down, he was too haughty to then at least look out for trains.
Omg!😮 that sent chills down my back! That girl looks just like my daughter!
Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on Earth!
- Albert Einstein
I recall a guy doing this at connonley in north Yorkshire, in front of my train. I got out of the cab at the station to go speak to him, at first he was adant that he was safely far enough from the train and that he wasn't at risk.
I was angry and said did he ever think of the example he was setting for those 2 boys that were waiting at the crossing? I told him that they see people jump the crossing and think it's OK for them to do it, only they'll make a mistake, they'll be the ones to die and it'll be your fault.
I asked him for ID to report him for it and he apologised and handed it over.
I'm glad he learned, I get the feeling he knew those kids, connonley isn't a big place.
If the level crossing is still down and the red lights shows don’t cross as another train is coming
And if you are that big of an idiot....at least check. Even when they are up I always quickly check if nothing is coming.
Sometimes barriers malfunction
@@des_smith7658 Then you call the signalman, there are phones by the barriers or call the police, you do not cross when barriers are down, do you not get it yet?
@@des_smith7658doesn’t matter if you think it’s malfunctioned, you should still never drive through a crossing while the barriers are down. Just find another way
@@ronrolfsen3977same. There’s always that feeling you get while exposing yourself to potential danger even when it’s safe.
The girl at the beginning must be the luckiest person alive.
*Dumbest
She'd have been turned into spaghetti
Unfortunately she will be around and have a family
Legend has it she is still running 😂
@@memphisdaniels3218 I can’t stupid some people can be, even a near miss can be very traumatic for a train driver.
If anyone suspects that stupidity and incompetence is the future, then these videos suggest that you may be correct.....
Don't know why my first comment was deleted, it's the truth. These people do not give a toss about the impact this kind of behaviour has on train drivers. Some drivers are left unable to work due to the stress caused by these near miss incidents. It's not funny, it's not a game, it's not smart, it's probably the most stupid thing anyone can do, fact!.
This.
That dog has more safety than a human?
1:20. Very romantic. Like two lovers rushing into each other's arms!
Those flat bed Transits are a magnet for terrible, selfish drivers.
I'm 50 and this just confirms my theory that there's never been as many smooth brains as there is now in the country!
It's just like some of them are playing chicken?
I lost a cousin who as a pedestrian got hit by a train on a crossing, his body could not be viewed before his funeral, I dread to think!!
@@Spartacus45 I’m a train driver. Stupid kids playing chicken is unfortunately more common than you think. Its also very difficult for people stood in front of a train to estimate how fast they are going and how long they have left to get out of the way.
Retired driver. People have no idea, the only person with a brain here was the bloke who looked up the line before crossing to help the cyclists. ( which was actually funny, both obsessed about beating the lights and just rode into each other. Fortunately it was controlled cctv monitored crossing, same as the Chichester stuck van, or else it’d be a different story. )
Had a few extremely close calls on foot crossings in my time
@@highdownmartin I've had a few _too-close-for-comforts_ in my time too, despite usually taking as much care as I can when using level crossings. There's one near me (An unsignalled pedestrian crossing) where there's a blind curve immediately up from the crossing, and this cuts the sighting for down trains to as little as three seconds on a section with a 90mph limit. I've even asked Network Rail to give us a white light to assist safe crossings in the past, but they won't. ⚠
The strange thing is that the path used by the crossing parallels the cess for at least 200m before leaving the line, and the road immediately down from there is at least one straight mile with excellent visibility. Is there any reason for why Network Rail _wouldn't_ move the crossing down by 200m, or at least make the down whistle board mandatory? 😇
My biggest is fear is one coming when the signals aren't working
That's one reason why I still check in all directions before crossing even if the equipment indicates that it's safe to proceed. It's very well maintained and kept to a high standard of reliability, but there's absolutely no harm in using your own eyes and ears to cover for that 1:1000000 failure... 👍
In France, every level crossing has a warning sign that one train can hide another - they’ve had lots of accidents too. But the pond life revealed in these clips beggars belief
That line - "Un train peut en cacher un autre"? - occurs to me every time I see one of these.
@@wulla2 honestly, it can catch you out even if you know this and there's signage. At tramline stops, where it is designed to be crossed unprotected on foot, I've nearly been caught out a few times. There's a powerful illusion or mind trick at play, I think
So, maybe they should put a sign on every road along every road along both sides that there might be cars driving on that road.
There are just things you learn as a child. Those things are called common sense. Coffee is hot.
Something tells me there's an 11 foot 8 bridge lurking behind a corner...
Yes :D
Now it makes total sense that all those trucks run into that bridge, if they are THAT dumb :)
sometimes I wonder how stupid our generation is. I mean, its common sense to NOT GO ON THE TRAIN TRACKS WHEN A TRAIN IS COMING but yes at faygate there is a little public footpath thats go's on the tracks, and I stay there for train spotting and whenever a train is coming and whip out my phone stand WELL back and start recording. I want to be a train driver as well, and knowing im probably going to accidently end someones life, where it will either be suicide or people being idiots on the tracks. Thank you for reading and stay safe out there
What the hell is wrong with people ? No regard for their own, and others lives. No respect at all.
People are in a hurry to not arrive too late for their own funeral.
What's even more scarier is that the train looks like it is coming slow from far away, but it's actually going fast.
1:43 Can someone clue me in on whats wrong here? All I see is a dog owner with both dogs leashed and under control, who was mid way through crossing the railway when the warning turned on. What were they to do differently?
Indeed. The way they used x2 speed was also dishonest. There was nothing wrong.
1:43 is the bike accident
“The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.” Carlo Cipolla
What a great boyfriend/husband/brother/male friend at @0:08.
Yes, and girls will stay with such idiots, not caring about non idiot people.
What is it about train tracks that make people SO STUPID?!
They're blazing loud, blaring a louder horn, there's lights and bells at the crossing, the barrier lowers, visible tracks on the ground.
But for some reason, humans literally just magically into insentient zombies with all 5 senses cut off the moment they enter the vicinity. Literally. Some people only noticed, got up and bolted ONLY when the train was literally one second away. Some people & drivers literally stopped ON the tracks.
What was the crackhead at 0.33 trying to do? Square up to a train? Or it's very possible he was trying to get the Class number off the front 🤔 🤣🤣
2 Jackass at 1:21 . That couldn't have been more perfect.
0:39 bro just casually walked away💀
Schade eigentlich , daß so viel Blödheit nicht belohnt wird .
The video at 1:43 was an msl crossing and you cam see she starts to cross when the light it on green
The difference between genius and stupidity is that stupidity has no limits!
0:38 bro was just trolling the grim reaper so hard right there
The driver probably had six months off after a miss _that_ close... 😢
1:20, the beginning of almost every Korean love drama series
The dog really was like “No we will move back so the train hits you instead of moving forwards and having 3 seconds left to still move out of the way”
Why can’t people just be patient
Because a lot of railroad operators are sloppy. Don't care to calculate opening times, so it stays closed forever and a day.
That leads people to not take it seriously anymore since 'barriers closing' means 'in the next 3 minutes, a train might arrive'.
And every once in a while it's a real closing instead of a sloppy one, and someone dies.
We had a crossing here that routinely closed 20-25 minutes with up to 8 minutes between trains, with the barriers going up but lights staying on. On the way to my highschool. Yeah, kids crossed that one illegally all the time. I did too as I do get penalised for being late.
In 6 years of crossing there every single day, I've never once seen a train cross without the barriers down.
Railroad enforcement tried to penalise and berate people. It ended in fighting because they were enforcing an idiotic rule.
Because patience is a virtue that few possess.
@@mickg7299 most people are morons huh?
Why can't people just don't be idiots.
@@SVEVelsen That's very true and way too many people don't know this, barriers being down too early and too long are a severe safety hazard. And this applies in a much more general sense too.
Let's be honest. Who among us ever expects a train to be on train tracks?
Humans, the most intelligent creatures on earth.
Obviously don’t have to be too bright to live there, even if they built an underpass they wouldn’t have the sense to use it.
Absolutely wild!
The cyclists colliding, absolutely hysterical.
0:25 look at the people hanging on the barrier
BRAINDEAD
1:20 this made my day. I finally reached what people in the food industry called the Bliss factor
This is like a You've Been Framed compilation, just needed a Harry Hill commentary and canned laughter on each clip. Loved those kids hanging on the crossing gates 😅😅
🤯🤯 Some crazy people out there 🤯🤯
The craziest part is no care was taken and these trains can clearly be seen hitting speeds of 70-90mph what is wrong with people man. If that thing even KNICKS your ankle your entire leg or part of it, is coming off and the force of which could send your entire body flying forward into the direction of the train and you getting mangled to pieces
Like common sense fam.
Thank god my parents taught me to look both ways before crossing.
That girl almost got hit
hell nah my heart got cooked at the first one she was milli seconds away from death😵🤧
Rules don’t apply in this country anymore.
How's that boot taste boy?
Absolutely nothing to do with this video. Idiots have been idioting forever
Not only your country, idiots are everywhere sadly.
Never seen a bicycle head-on before.
All that road to themselves, but still they crashed !
There's almost no excuse to get hit by a train lol It's not like they'll jump out of the bushes at you 😂
I’ve attended a few accidents on level crossings in my 39 years on the railway and it never ceases to amaze and frighten me regards the sheer quantity of stupidity around LX’s there is amongst the general publics attitude towards their own and their children’s lives. If that little girl had been half second slower, bits of her would have found half a mile down the track.
And then what would her dad have said to her mother?
How stupid are some people to put their lives at risk to save a minute of their time
The people on the bikes! 😂
The nonchalant "unaware of your surroundings" attitude displayed is astounding! My sympathies to the train drivers whom have to carry these encounters in their brains.
And i get weird looks from people when i wait for the crosswalk light to go green because I value my safety.....
1:19 "Hey you ran into me!"
"No, you ran into me!"
The last time I saw Flying Scotsman it had a couple of Transport Police on duty on the platform and they did book a couple of people for ignoring signs not to cross a white line, with another person walking past the police and was stood on the track, he was quickly moved as a fast moving 2,000 ton trains was due, I think some people just have a death wish.
1:43 how is this misuse? You can see him already by the track as the light changes to red.
You're right
Yeah unless there was an audible siren before the light changed to red, he just got really unlucky with his timing, like he'd *just* walked past the green light and then it changed to red. Note that the video is sped up x2 to make it look worse, if you put the playback speed to 0.5 you can see how it was for real. It looks like the red light gives you about 20 seconds warning
@@ajl241 you can see he was off the track 12 seconds before the train passed.
It changed to red just before he stepped on it and the footage was played at X2 meaning he also took a ridiculous amount of time to cross it.
True, but how do you know he’s not disabled or injured? He might not have been able to walk faster. Yeah he should have stopped probably but still.
What do you call it when 2 bicyclists run into each other at a rail crossing?
There has to be a punch line there somewhere…
Frightening lack of awareness.
Natural selection at its finest. Cant believe the guy that just stopped with his bike...
the person who stopped infront of the train just to escape 0.01 sec before it hits, oh my god
More candidates for the Darwin award.
The fourth guy literally had a death wish
First one, YOU MISSED 😂😂😂
Wow! Just . . . . Wow!
Mindblowing. Sometime it's mindblowing and gut spilling literally.
It's the same here in The Netherlands, people are just getting more and more stupid.
1:21 OH JESUS I HOPE THEY WERE OKAY 😨
Some people are just idiots
the idiot who purposefully stood there definitely gave that driver some horrible memories
did that cyclist just sit there to scare the driver into thinking he wouldn't move, what a idiot needs arresting.
To be fair to the gentleman crossing at 1:47 we can’t see where the traffic light is located on his side of the tracks as there appears to be a tree in the way at the expected location. It’s possible he would have seen a green light showing as he passed wherever the traffic light is located.
Not to mention he had plenty of time to cross Abt 9 seconds before the train went by
@@HallsofAsgard96 Nope.
At 1:43 he has not yet walked past the position where the crossing light would normally be placed (the normal position is just on the non-railway side of the fence that is inline with the railway / perpendicular with the road), the light would have been showing green and would have changed to red just before he got to it. These crossing light units also have loud sirens.
@@Mark1024MAK
He clearly passed the signal when it was on green. The x2 speed make it look dangerous, it was not.
1:20 😂 u kidding me right