It was at that very moment...

"Tohru" (tohrurokuno)
03/20/2015 at 17:42 • Filed to: None

... that the Camry driver knew they had fucked up.

(Video removed because I didn't realize that it was a fatal accident. I'm a fuckup, go call me names in the comments.)

DISCUSSION (72)

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:45

It was at that moment that they died. So...yeah.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:45

No, that was when the two on the passenger side decided they were going to haunt the driver forever.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:45

Kinja'd!!!

It's tracked to the tracks, fool.

Zohaibman72 > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:46

Jesus christ, that was painful to watch, considering I own that car.

I hope they are OK.

Why wasn't the barrier down or something, that's fucked up.

Tohru > Zohaibman72
03/20/2015 at 17:49

Not every crossing has a barrier.

Svend > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:49

Yes, because your massive size, yellow, honking your horny and there is 'dink dink dink' noise doesn't mean we know you're there.

I hope their car insurance doesn't pay up (health insurance yes), but car insurance I hope they say 'we pay for accidents and inadvertent damage, not sheer acts of great stupidity and ignorance. Is there anything else I can help you with?'.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
03/20/2015 at 17:49

IIRC the two on the passenger side were the ones that died.

Alex B > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:50

Why where there people filming? Is filming train crossings a thing?

bob and john > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:50

Kinja'd!!!

stay classy classless oppo

djmt1 > Zohaibman72
03/20/2015 at 17:50

Nope dead. Very dead. Getting hit by a freight train several miles long level dead.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
03/20/2015 at 17:50

Oh that makes sense. Either way, I don't care to make a big deal of it, but I feel like a video of two people dying isn't that humorous.

Zohaibman72 > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:51

I thought this did, from the crossing sign. The lights aren't flashing on it though, I would normally blame the driver for not being attentive with this stuff, but I genuinely feel bad for these people.

Kinja'd!!!

MrDakka > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:52

Should be titled: Watch Stupid People Die

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:52

"It handles like it's on rails"

lonestranger > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:52

On one hand, I feel for the passengers and for the deceased and injured's loved ones, not to mention the locomotive crew.

On the other hand, it turns out that there is a cure for stupidity.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 17:52

I can't say I blame the driver. There were absolutely no warning lights, the lights weren't blinking. Considering I can't hear worth a damn the same thing could of easily happened to me.

Kinja'd!!!

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
03/20/2015 at 17:53

It was put up as a non-humorous PSA yesterday. If the driver does have mental function after this, I don't know how they'd survive knowing of this carelessness.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Zohaibman72
03/20/2015 at 17:53

Not ok, unfortunately.

bob and john > Alex B
03/20/2015 at 17:55

to some extend. there are train enthusiasts just like there are car enthusiasts

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Alex B
03/20/2015 at 17:56

yes it is.

Alex B > bob and john
03/20/2015 at 17:57

There most certainly are. It's wild that they happened to be filming when this happened...

lonestranger > Zohaibman72
03/20/2015 at 17:57

There is no barrier, and the lights are flashing as seen in the alternate view:

Tohru > bob and john
03/20/2015 at 17:58

I did not know this was a crash that involved fatalities when I posted it. That's totally on me for not fact-checking.

Zohaibman72 > lonestranger
03/20/2015 at 18:00

This one is alot more crazier because of the reactions, holy shit.

Tohru > Alex B
03/20/2015 at 18:02

Train fans. They like to record the trains. They have locomotives they like and dislike. They follow certain ones by the locomotive number on them - the locomotive in this incident was Union Pacific 5024, which RailPictures.net tells me is an EMD SD70M which has been in service since at least October of 2002.

Tohru > MrDakka
03/20/2015 at 18:03

I didn't realize that people died in this accident when I posted it. That's on me for not fact-checking.

lonestranger > Zohaibman72
03/20/2015 at 18:08

I just found the location on Google Maps . It's a narrow residential street, presumably with light traffic which explains the lack of a barrier.

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:12

This is really depressing.

ttyymmnn > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:12

My mom used to work as an EMT in rural Illinois, and she saw her fair share of car/train crashes. She said they were utterly horrible, and she didn't like to talk about them. I do remember her saying, though, that when they went on calls for motorcycle wrecks where the driver wasn't wearing a helmet that it was like "picking up a sack of marbles." Wear a helmet, folks.

MrDakka > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:15

Np, I'm just being a misanthrope laughing at their stupidity

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/loc…

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:16

That is a video of people actually dying. But Camry, am I right fellas? /s Good job, oppo.

lonestranger > Luc - The Acadian Oppo
03/20/2015 at 18:18

That's what I thought, too, until I watched the alternate video . In it, the lights are indeed flashing. They also seem to be somewhat dim from that camera's angle, so I presume the lamps have a narrow angle at which they shed light.

There are also a pair of lights on both sides of the road in both directions.

Tohru > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
03/20/2015 at 18:21

Yeah, I fucked up and didn't read the video description, so I didn't know what happened to them when I posted it. Blame me for being stupid.

Steve in Manhattan > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:21

Clarkson did a recreation of a crossing accident pretty much straight up. This clip was utilized, and showed someone with amazing luck:

Tohru > Steve in Manhattan
03/20/2015 at 18:23

If that train wasn't there, they would've rolled that Reliant at the corner after the tracks.

Good Guy Train saving lives.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn
03/20/2015 at 18:32

Some states do not require the wearing of a helmet. South Dakota, home of Sturgis, is one.
California has legal lane splitting. Let's talk about anarchy.

Leadfoot866 > Zohaibman72
03/20/2015 at 18:32

The two passengers on the right side of the car were killed. Last I heard, the driver and rear-left passenger survived, but were in critical condition...

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:33

It's all good.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:34

Tohru, don't feel bad. But even with the still image that remains, how does a driver find her or himself in a situation like that?

Steve in Manhattan > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:34

Difficult to believe there are fan clubs for those things. And the Morris Marina.

Cé hé sin > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:37

That's legal in America??

Cé hé sin > lonestranger
03/20/2015 at 18:39

Yes, paid by the passengers.

Leadfoot866 > Alex B
03/20/2015 at 18:40

Yes, believe it or not, this is a thing. It's called railfanning, or trainspotting (no, it has nothing to do with that stupid book/movie)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railfan

I mean, hey, car enthusiasts film and photograph cars, so why can't train enthusiasts do the same thing?

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/20/2015 at 18:41

You will find many fans of lane splitting around here. I am not one, though.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:48

That was the moment when the gene pool was left just a liiiittle bit cleaner.

Joel Ness > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
03/20/2015 at 18:48

Yeah, the news report said two dead two critical. That could only mean the two on the passenger side died. That driver will live with that for the rest of their life.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Svend
03/20/2015 at 18:48

It was a stunt they were trying to do. I'll chock this one up to natural selection.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/20/2015 at 18:49

They did it on purpose. They were trying to do some stupid stunt like stupid people do.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
03/20/2015 at 18:50

More like but stupidity.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
03/20/2015 at 18:50

No kidding? If that's the case, then Tohru definitely should not feel bad for posting the video.

Leadfoot866 > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:51

Oh boy, here comes my inner train nerd...

TRAIN NERD CONNECTION ESTABLISHED/

Indeed, the lead locomotive is an Electro-Motive SD70M. It's actually one of the later models with the flared radiators designed to accommodate the larger cores needed for split-cooling. The trailing locomotive, UP 4249, is one of the earlier SD70s that did not have the flared radiators.

/TRAIN NERD DISCONNECTED

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/20/2015 at 18:53

Yeah, I'm trying to find the full clip from the other angle. There were two people filming,a nd they signal the Camry driver to go at the last minute.

RockThrillz89 > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 18:54

Why should people call you names because you posted a video in which people died. It's not like it was full of gore or anything. Honestly, I think that this serves as a reminder to check rail crossings. Turn the radio down when you approach them and slow down. There's a reason school buses have to stop at railroad crossings. Even if they have a gate on the crossing, there's a chance that it isn't working.

I looked the video up anyway. With all those people pointing their cameras down the tracks, the whistle blowing and the lights flashing, there is no excuse for the driver to have proceeded at that rate of speed. Just shy of him having a medial emergency at that moment that didn't allow him to slow down (seizure for example), this was the result of being an idiot. This never should have happened.

The roads are dangerous - be attentive at all times, even when you don't have other cars around you, there's still a million other things that can hurt or kill you.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
03/20/2015 at 18:59

I find that stupefying. I hope the survivors were charged with homicide.

Tohru > Cé hé sin
03/20/2015 at 19:01

This is a Union Pacific crossing a block from my house, here in Wisconsin.

Kinja'd!!!

If this roads sees 30 cars in a day, it would be surprising. The county highway crossing a block west has lights, the state highway crossing 3 blocks east has lights and barriers.

Signs-only is common on rural roads in Wisconsin. The train has to hit the horn before the crossing, but that's your only warning.

desertdog5051 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/20/2015 at 19:01

Exactly, I saw the footage yesterday. Un-signaled crossing, they were driving toward the train before they turned. Would you not look before you crossed?

But I used to be a contractor to the B&O/C&O and we would have people try to go around the grade crossing we had torn out to repair. They would get stuck on the tracks and we would charge them $25 to pull their car back off the tracks with a loader. People, WTF!!

Dusty Ventures > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
03/20/2015 at 19:02

I think the people filming were just railfans, not part of some stunt attempt. The second person filming had the camera focused entirely on the train the whole time, to the point that you almost don't even see the car (and wouldn't have seen the car at all if the car had actually made it). That and the way the car slowly approached the tracks (you can tell by the sound of the engine he's not even remotely trying to go fast) I think it was just a driver not paying attention at the same intersection as a cluster of railfans.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/20/2015 at 19:04

Rewatching it now, I could have been misreading the hand signals, but it looked to me like the guy on the right side of the road was signalling to the Camry when it was time to go. Fast forward to 2:35ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE1DW0…

Tohru > Leadfoot866
03/20/2015 at 19:04

Wasn't "Trainspotting" about heroin use? With the title referring to looking for needle tracks in the arms of junkies?

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Dusty Ventures
03/20/2015 at 19:05

Yeah, rewatching it now, I could have been misreading it. It looked to me like the guy on the right side of the tracks waved to signal when it was time to go for the Camry at 2:35ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE1DW0…

Tohru > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
03/20/2015 at 19:06

I pulled the video because I didn't realize there was fatalities in it.

Dusty Ventures > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
03/20/2015 at 19:07

Yeah, I'm 99% sure he was just waving to the train

Tohru > ttyymmnn
03/20/2015 at 19:09

Wisconsin does not require helmet use, but I always wear one.

One time I went for a short ride, and left the helmet at home. I was just over a mile from the house when a girl did a left turn in front of me and I crashed my bike into the side of her car. It was at slow speeds and I pitched the bike sideways so I just bounced off her car and didn't get tossed. Still, that was the close call that prompted me to wear a helmet from then on.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 19:14

Like I said, it's all good. Sorry if I was a dick.

Tohru > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
03/20/2015 at 19:18

Nah, we're cool. Sorry about the vid.

ttyymmnn > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 19:26

I ride a bicycle (not as much as I should) and I always wear a helmet. The once or twice that I do, it feels really strange.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 19:30

Don't worry about it, it was on th FP. Already saw it.

Tohru > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
03/20/2015 at 19:35

Shit, really? I don't go on the FP, so I didn't know.

Leadfoot866 > Tohru
03/20/2015 at 20:11

From IMDB...

There has been some confusion over the title as none of that particular activity actually takes place in the film. Irvine Welsh has since gone on record to explain the title, comparing the unusual hobby to heroin addiction, ie, something that only the people who indulge in that pastime truly understand. To them, it makes perfect sense.

Tohru > Leadfoot866
03/20/2015 at 20:30

Woah woah, hey, woah. I don't do that sort of shit, man. I just saw stuff on the Internet that implied drug use. I've never seen the movie.

Don't try pinning that evil on me, man.

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > Tohru
03/21/2015 at 00:01

It actually got me thinking a bit about the couple of close calls I've seen. We have tracks near my area and there's a half dozen fatalities a year within ten miles. It's something I will make sure to teach my child to be aware of while driving. Bless those people's family and even the poor driver who it looks like is just a teen and inexperienced.

Slave2anMG > Zohaibman72
03/22/2015 at 20:33

No barrier; just flashing lights and bells.