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This incredible video is from Poland
That other driver just saved a bunch of lives
For moving the bar? I’ve been taught that the bars on railroad crossings aren’t sturdy at all, and you can easily just drive through them. Though I guess it could be different if it’s lodged between things like it got in the video.
I’m not sure if he even did anything, but he put himself on the line to try.
Wow the cursed railway crossings in euro truck sim are actually realistic? There’s no change in elevation or emergency stop button? Terrifying.
Idk what part of NA you’re in, but these level crossings are also everywhere in the Midwest and some parts of the south. You’re lucky if there’s even a grade.
I am not in Europe or NA. I am in a secret third location where
roam freely.
Almost made it to Valhalla
Never really considered how scary these crossings are with heavy traffic.
More context, most of these crashes are at nighttime due to poor street lighting in urban areas with lots of passenger traffic. This is because street maintenance crews need to send three men to replace every light bulb, one to hold the bulb and two to hold the ladder.
yes but how many democrats could change a lightbulb instead?
None! There too busy ??? there gender
No idea if this is a joke or not.
Dang it I fucked the joke up, meant to say “rotate the ladder”
its not, trust me im polish this is how we work around here
There actually are the same number of incidents per capita as in other European nations, it’s just more likely to die in a collision in Poland because screen doors are less effective at stopping the train.
had me going in the first half dot jpeg
is this a drinking and driving thing
That and likely a lot more level crossings without any barriers. They’re common in Europe and people just ignore the sign that says “death box incoming” cause they do it all the time and nothing ever happens, so why stop this time. Also if you’re in traffic and you leave the crossing free (as you should) people will honk you to hell and back.
That doesn’t actually seem to be true. Just like with Brightline deaths in FL, most of these people are deliberately placing themselves in the path of a moving train because
spoiler
they do not want to be alive anymore.
PKP PLK has an extensive campaign “Safe Crossing”, most cases do not seem to be that you are talking about but plain ignorance, impatience and sometimes stupidity. How do I know that? Every crossing in Poland has CCTV, yes every single one.
Check out their youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMaaBn2U0pR3dHeAzy9h-cg
Oh and also the police asked PKP PLK to stop sending them reports because they’re getting too many. I’m not making this up, but for the love of me can’t find the reporting.
Big oof. In North America at least, virtually all train/railroad deaths are actually suicides. It’s over 95% of the reported deaths related to Brightline "H"SR. Like, a lot of the reporting bodies are politically motivated to suppress the suicide rate in their reports.
Typically, mentally well people without plans to do something do not check a train schedule beforehand. They also don’t park their car in the middle of a level crossing or stand in the middle of the tracks and stare down an approaching train for 2-3 minutes.
Really interesting to see different behavior in Europe. I guess trains are a lot more normal and people are more likely to consider how it will impact people riding the train.
Spoiler
I’m expecting that to account for a lot, if not most, of the total deaths, but in those cases people usually aren’t in their car when they’re on the tracks. That’s usually a case of “i feel invincible in my car and do not understand that trains need for fucking ever to break.”
no alcohol needed. stupidity, ignorance, lack of patience and being polish are enough
I mean, drinking and driving seemed to be a normal as brushing your teeth when I was there… So I wouldn’t put it past most people driving in a hurry through a grade crossing to also be a bit drunk, especially at night
I had to cross a railroad track to make it to a bike trail recently and it was totally unmarked and you better believe I looked both ways 5 times!
this is a polish thing. no alcohol needed, check out the official channel of our railways https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMaaBn2U0pR3dHeAzy9h-cg
“I can’t hear your train collisions over the sound of our elevated rail lines”in every video i see, why do the cars always stop on the tracks instead of you know, driving off?
is it just their brain being frozen in a state of shock or something?
The shock thing is real, and since we are dealing with the kind of accident where freezing can kill you, we are going to see them over represented in the tallies, if that makes sense.
There’s lots of factors though, most people have conditioned themselves to see their cars as safe places to brace for an impact. So they’d have fight the impulse to hang tight.
how many of these are suicides?
They get flummoxed at the crossings because they think the flashing light bulbs need to be changed
lineu, não!
