dibbons
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How dumb can one be? Well, the comments point out the teenage girl driving was rear-ended during the first moments of the video.
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Train Hits Stupid Driver
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33IMP
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There is a frightening amount of this kind of video on you tube. It's amazing how many stupid people there are out there.
33IMP
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.....that said, we had an incident at work a few years back, where the metrolink track right behind my shop almost got blocked..... by a runaway dump truck with several tons of rock-hard dried asphalt in the bed.
Fortunately, thru pure accident (read decapitated power pole) the track wasn't blocked.
The thing is.... NONE of us knew what to do, if it HAD been blocked.
I now know that at each street/train track intersection with lights and barriers, is a placard with a phone# to call in an emergency.
(Something useful that I learned from comments on you tube)
Fortunately, thru pure accident (read decapitated power pole) the track wasn't blocked.
The thing is.... NONE of us knew what to do, if it HAD been blocked.
I now know that at each street/train track intersection with lights and barriers, is a placard with a phone# to call in an emergency.
(Something useful that I learned from comments on you tube)
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abdywgn
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saw this on the news...why didn't they just keep driving forward was my first thought
harrisonm
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I hope she never reproduces or votes.
missing linc
Loose nut behind the wheel
I watched that a day or two ago on youtube, can't for the life of me understand why she wouldn't just go forward.
jos51700
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If she's like most teenagers these days, mom and dad do most of the thinking, and in that case, they're all three probably glued to their phones.
33IMP
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Or, do a u-turn. Or break off the barrier (which are fragile for that very reason!). Or, do ANYTHING other than leave it on the tracks, and abandon it.
MDchanic
Connoisseur d'Junque
"Getting hit by train: Clearly bad.
Denting rear of truck by backing up through barrier: Definitely worse.
Not damaging front of truck at all by driving forward where there is no barrier at all: Utterly unthinkable.
Making quick U-turn or swidging car parallel-wise against gate: Completely impossible.
Solution: Leave car on tracks and run away."
Note also that the car behind her, on the "happy" side of the gate, backed up to give her room to back through the gate.
– Eric
edited: hadn't realized there was no gate in front of her.
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33IMP
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Teenage girl. Apparently the Google search of "what to I do now?" didn't come thru on her phone fast enough.
It's a divided road. Look again, there were no gates in front of her, simply an open lane(s) of road. Hit the gas girl, and go!!
MDchanic
Connoisseur d'Junque
Oh Crap. I didn't look at it full screen.
I saw the gate on the opposite side and thought it was across her side.
I shall edit my post to indicate even more turbocharged stupidity than I had realized.
– Eric
33IMP
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Turbocharged stupidity! LOL!
Common sense is not common these days.
Common sense is not common these days.
Ahoey
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I’m a pretty handy guy, can fix lots and lots of stuff but somehow I just can’t fix stupid, have tried but no.
MDchanic
Connoisseur d'Junque
In the medical world, they say you can cure lung cancer and you can cure the clap, but you can't cure the common cold, and you can't cure stupid.
– Eric
MDchanic
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MDchanic
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You missed having your IQ reduced by several points.
No. Nobody did.
But, watching the video from :52 to :53 (hard for me to concentrate for that long), it does look like the truck's bumper is actually in contact with her car right up until the truck stops suddenly (and perfectly) at the STOP line, and she blasts through.
Is the truck actually in contact, and therefore physically pushing her?
Her car is clearly operational, because she is able to back up immediately, so it would not appear that the truck was pushing her because her car was disabled.
Pushing her car physically into a railroad crossing while a train was coming would seem to me to represent fairly aggressive driving (even I haven't done that... yet), the sort that one would expect to be noted in any news story about the event.
Interestingly, the truck, which may have pushed her into the railroad crossing, then backs up to give her room to back out, and also, when she does get out of the car, she appears to walk directly to the driver's side of the truck. To yell at the driver? Because they know each other?
I agree that there is more to this than meets the eye, and that nobody else noticed this particular element so far.
– Eric
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
so check out this version of the video, slightly more informative and much less jabber
if you pay close attention, the front bumper of the jeep is stopped, dead stopped at the 7 second mark
she (i think its a girl) is not stopped for very long, less then a full second when she get propelled forward by the white utility truck
the only thing that makes sense is that the guy read ended her
why? could be agressive act of road rage, like you eluded to, more likely, the gilr in the white jeep saw the crossing closing and slowed down, the driver of the utility truck did not and hit the brakes too late (added wildcard, maybe not used to driving a truck that doesnt stop on a dime)
once she gets rear ended, thats where the panic sets in because she knows the train is coming, that is why she stopped
MDchanic
Connoisseur d'Junque
Agreed.
This looks like the Mountain West. Odds are that you could see the train coming along the flat for a good distance, at least by looking between any buildings that might be there.
The engineer probably blew the whistle a bunch of times before the crossing lights came on as well.
The work truck driver probably saw or heard the train some distance before the crossing, and was tailgating her to get through the crossing before the (potentially) mile-long train came through. (In this case it wasn’t a mile long, but if it was only partially visible, that might not have been obvious).
She perhaps wasn’t clued into the train coming until she saw the lights come on, at which point she suddenly jammed on the brakes, got rear-ended by the tailgating truck, whose driver thought she was going to roll through, then jammed on the brakes in the middle of the crossing.
– Eric
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