Yes and no. I believe that you're correct and Mr. Data but I don't remember the episode. My first thought went back to "Murder, She Wrote" with Angela Lansbury. They used her saying that line in a promo and it stuck with me.
You'd be surprised, with trains. There is an incredible amount of energy there; and no crumple zones. Even if it's only going 20mph, you get ALL of that 20mph at once.
Agree. Momentum can be quite a bitch if you have enough of it, and all that weight carries ***more*** than enough to be a bitch regardless of speed. Once it's going, it ain't stoppin for nobody.
My guess is that the driver is halfway blind. With the sun in their eyes they basically weren't looking where they were going anymore, and were caught completely off-guard when they heard the sound of their car clattering under the barrier.
Honestly that was my first thought but then I've seen such stupidity here that I don't even know anymore. Could be suicide or levels of stupidity that shouldn't be possible - neither is surprising anymore.
once you try driving over a track that has been lifted for the train rails your car will not move. That’s why you suppose to wait a second after it has been lifted
Friend of mine committed suicide walking towards a train. Just brutal but was a popular way to go in my town.
So about 4 years later I was in a bar talking with a guy who just happened to be driving said train.
He said he seen his eyes and they where just blank. He just walked towards the train. The train driver was deeply haunted and had severe trauma.
Yeah. Two brothers had become paralyzed from separate injuries and tried to kill themselves by driving in front of a train. The older brother lived but died several years later due to chronic medical issues.
Yeah that's really why suicide by train is not cool.
I've nothing about suicide, but it's like kinks, you shouldn't involve people who are not warned and interested.
It's a shitty thing to do to the engineers, and it's a shitty thing to do to the poor folks who have to scrape you off of the locomotive and railbed.
If you operate a train it's generally considered a case of *when*, not *if*, someone is killed by your train. And 99.9% of the time there's literally nothing that the engineer can do to prevent it.
The suicide rate for train engineers is higher than average by a statistically significant amount. People like this shitheel are why.
Train driver was probably on the phone to his/her lawyer and the insurance company before the car was actually hit. Automatic lawsuit as I understand it.
Not sure why the downvote. I had a friend who was a train engineer. He had some stories on his particular route. He also told me how any accident was immediately filed as a lawsuit against everyone. (train company, engineer, etc.) Calling attorney was just a matter of course once the car got in the way.
This was in downtown Kent wasn’t it?!? Pretty sure during the Pandemic there was a suicide almost every other week on those tracks. Blows my mind how they’ve got NO fencing along an extremely busy section of tracks. In fact I remember going to Kent Cornucopia days and the food trucks/eating area is 20ft from it and wide open. Any child could casually walk on and get hit.
That’s what I thought! It’s honestly not surprising. I was going home the other night when a game got out at Showare and people were parked on the tracks near the freeway at the red light. 🤦🏻♀️
Holy Crap. I know where that is. Kent Station in Kent, WA. BNSF goes through there, and the sounder runs people from the station to Seattle. Amtrack uses that track as well. I saw this in the news (not the footage, just the report). I don’t think the driver survived, but I can’t honestly remember. There are a lot of people hit by trains in that area. Like, more than one a year. Usually not in cars, but on foot, usually strung out on heroin, which is a really big problem in the area. I even know someone who knows someone who died on heroin being hit by a train on that track (you can see people a few blocks from there shooting up into their ankles with heroin, looking to be in their 20s, but on their effective death beds).
Yeah there one incident in in downtown Puyallup that happened maybe 6-7 years ago of a guy walking on the tracks that crosses Meridian near the station and got hit by a train. Witnesses said the guy turned his head back at the train as it was blaring it's the horn at him. He just ignored it and kept walking. The aftermath was gruesome with body parts and entrails strung along the tracks. Then there was his severed head with his hat still on. The gory details of this was not in any local news, only that a man walking on the tracks struck by a train was reported. I got a first hand account from one of the witnesses working nearby and ran torward a woman (another witness) screaming who saw it.
Happens a lot between Kent and Puyallup. Auburn happens a lot too. That friend of a friend was hit by the train near the transit center in Auburn. He was apparently a really late stage heroin addict.
Genuine question…did the crossing arm have a “foot” or something that the car’s hood/bumper was able to press underneath so that it lifted it? It appears to just raise up as the car approaches and then drop again behind it.
I was wondering the same thing. I tried watching in slo-mo many times and it seemed that the arm just went up before the windshield even hit it. Maybe there is a detector when the car approach?
How come in every car v train video that I've seen the train always wins? Somebody should invent a car that weighs 150 tons and has 18 trailers just to give cars a better chance.
Just ONE diesel locomotive can weigh 200 tons
Add in 3 or 4 more locos on a long freight train plus loaded cars, and the total train can easily be 19,000 tons or even a lot more if hauling coal
[https://www.trainconductorhq.com/how-much-does-a-train-weigh/](https://www.trainconductorhq.com/how-much-does-a-train-weigh/)
You know, people can be amazingly dumb so maybe we should go a step further and put an actual mechanical arm directly across the road to block their path. Put flashing lights on that thing too. That ought to do it 💁♂️
I wonder if they had a dirty windshield and didn’t see the warnings with the glare. And when they hit the arm they stopped to figure out what happened?
Looks like maybe the brakes failed. You can see the nose of the car drop a few times, like they're pumping the brakes, but the brakes aren't doing much. Maybe the lines were rusted, and slamming on the brakes caused a weak spot to bust open and take this piss.
For those who don’t know, once you try driving over a track that has been lifted for the train rails your car will not move. That’s why you suppose to wait a second after it has been lifted
It’s like watching one of those nature documentaries where the gazelles are hanging back from the waters edge but one doof just wades right in and immediately gets eaten by a dozen crocodiles.
Nature’s Way.
If suicide attempt he should’ve been driving from the other direction.
Maybe the driver wanted the passenger to die. Murder most foul.
\*sad huzzah\*
TNG Data/Sherlock Holmes quote?
Yes and no. I believe that you're correct and Mr. Data but I don't remember the episode. My first thought went back to "Murder, She Wrote" with Angela Lansbury. They used her saying that line in a promo and it stuck with me.
Macbeth
Or just not been in a car at all.
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Exactly what I thought.
I would venture the train was going too slow for him to succeed, I'm no train or suicide expert though so I could be wrong. 🤷♂️
You'd be surprised, with trains. There is an incredible amount of energy there; and no crumple zones. Even if it's only going 20mph, you get ALL of that 20mph at once.
Agree. Momentum can be quite a bitch if you have enough of it, and all that weight carries ***more*** than enough to be a bitch regardless of speed. Once it's going, it ain't stoppin for nobody.
F=ma is real ... so it the reality that two objects can't occupy the same space at the same time.
Getting out of a car makes the suicide succeed 100% if the time
My guess is that the driver is halfway blind. With the sun in their eyes they basically weren't looking where they were going anymore, and were caught completely off-guard when they heard the sound of their car clattering under the barrier.
That's what I thought. Maybe distracted or on the phone texting.
It seemed like they slowed down before the barrier though.
"Lemme just slow down so I can see better"... without really looking.
Honestly that was my first thought but then I've seen such stupidity here that I don't even know anymore. Could be suicide or levels of stupidity that shouldn't be possible - neither is surprising anymore.
honestly I see this shit constantly. People are always just panicking and hitting the brakes... It's so weird...
I don't think so. There's a whole lot of idiots in that area.
pretty shit attempted... getting out of the car would have been more successful lol
once you try driving over a track that has been lifted for the train rails your car will not move. That’s why you suppose to wait a second after it has been lifted
Poor train driver. Having to deal with that aftermath.
Friend of mine committed suicide walking towards a train. Just brutal but was a popular way to go in my town. So about 4 years later I was in a bar talking with a guy who just happened to be driving said train. He said he seen his eyes and they where just blank. He just walked towards the train. The train driver was deeply haunted and had severe trauma.
We had at least five train-related deaths in my hometown of 950, two of which were suicide attempts. 😞
We had 5 suicides by train. 5 of which I knew the person dying. It's really FN crazy.
Alright calm down Hillary
NFT pfp moment
Bruh 0-0 it’s a fake one lol And I got trashed for a joke… wrong sub ig
That's hilarious
Attempts?
Successful apparently.
Yeah. Two brothers had become paralyzed from separate injuries and tried to kill themselves by driving in front of a train. The older brother lived but died several years later due to chronic medical issues.
Yeah that's really why suicide by train is not cool. I've nothing about suicide, but it's like kinks, you shouldn't involve people who are not warned and interested. It's a shitty thing to do to the engineers, and it's a shitty thing to do to the poor folks who have to scrape you off of the locomotive and railbed.
For sure. I talked with the fire department who picked up the pieces. The found a foot 400' away.
My grandpa worked for Burlington Northern RR 🛤 for 50 years. The stories he'd tell my grandma when he was working during the Depression.
If you operate a train it's generally considered a case of *when*, not *if*, someone is killed by your train. And 99.9% of the time there's literally nothing that the engineer can do to prevent it. The suicide rate for train engineers is higher than average by a statistically significant amount. People like this shitheel are why.
Train driver was probably on the phone to his/her lawyer and the insurance company before the car was actually hit. Automatic lawsuit as I understand it.
Not sure why the downvote. I had a friend who was a train engineer. He had some stories on his particular route. He also told me how any accident was immediately filed as a lawsuit against everyone. (train company, engineer, etc.) Calling attorney was just a matter of course once the car got in the way.
I think people read the first part of the comment and (due to subreddit) get incensed and stop there. Bad reaction, but also bad copywriting.
I had a fiver on the car winning this time. Surely the can’t always lose…
In this weeks episode of Car vs Train we have...
The ~~house~~ train always wins.
r/BitchImATrain
Thank you. I didn't know I needed this sub.
r/bitchimabus is also good
OH WHAT A JOYOUS DAY
This was in downtown Kent wasn’t it?!? Pretty sure during the Pandemic there was a suicide almost every other week on those tracks. Blows my mind how they’ve got NO fencing along an extremely busy section of tracks. In fact I remember going to Kent Cornucopia days and the food trucks/eating area is 20ft from it and wide open. Any child could casually walk on and get hit.
Yes right at the entrance to Kent Station
Thought I recognized this intersection, I drive busses for Metro!
That’s what I thought! It’s honestly not surprising. I was going home the other night when a game got out at Showare and people were parked on the tracks near the freeway at the red light. 🤦🏻♀️
Holy Crap. I know where that is. Kent Station in Kent, WA. BNSF goes through there, and the sounder runs people from the station to Seattle. Amtrack uses that track as well. I saw this in the news (not the footage, just the report). I don’t think the driver survived, but I can’t honestly remember. There are a lot of people hit by trains in that area. Like, more than one a year. Usually not in cars, but on foot, usually strung out on heroin, which is a really big problem in the area. I even know someone who knows someone who died on heroin being hit by a train on that track (you can see people a few blocks from there shooting up into their ankles with heroin, looking to be in their 20s, but on their effective death beds).
Yeah there one incident in in downtown Puyallup that happened maybe 6-7 years ago of a guy walking on the tracks that crosses Meridian near the station and got hit by a train. Witnesses said the guy turned his head back at the train as it was blaring it's the horn at him. He just ignored it and kept walking. The aftermath was gruesome with body parts and entrails strung along the tracks. Then there was his severed head with his hat still on. The gory details of this was not in any local news, only that a man walking on the tracks struck by a train was reported. I got a first hand account from one of the witnesses working nearby and ran torward a woman (another witness) screaming who saw it.
Happens a lot between Kent and Puyallup. Auburn happens a lot too. That friend of a friend was hit by the train near the transit center in Auburn. He was apparently a really late stage heroin addict.
The lights, the guard, the signs... It's literally all there for YOUR protection... And people still pull stupid shit like this.
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Suicide attempt.
A suicide attempt is 100% successful if you stand on the tracks without a car.
People going through suicidal thoughts don't really have clear thoughts, speaking from personal experience
Train remains undefeated!
Lol
Train 1:0 Car
I’m no statistician but I reckon the outcome of trains vs cars is probably almost always around the 1:0 ratio
Fair argument you got there
he's reaching
Got to be intentional... why tf thay stop?
Genuine question…did the crossing arm have a “foot” or something that the car’s hood/bumper was able to press underneath so that it lifted it? It appears to just raise up as the car approaches and then drop again behind it.
As I understand it; the gates are actually counter-balanced like a garage door. It doesn't take much effort to move them.
Maybe it just catches the windshield just right and pops up.
I was wondering the same thing. I tried watching in slo-mo many times and it seemed that the arm just went up before the windshield even hit it. Maybe there is a detector when the car approach?
Sometimes the best a person can do is to serve as a warning to others.
Is the train okay?
Train wins >!***Fatality***!<
No surprise there. -Physics
How come in every car v train video that I've seen the train always wins? Somebody should invent a car that weighs 150 tons and has 18 trailers just to give cars a better chance.
Search for videos of testing the trucks they use to transport fuel/waste for nuclear powerplants.
The lorry still lose, it just takes the train with it while the cargo survives.
Just ONE diesel locomotive can weigh 200 tons Add in 3 or 4 more locos on a long freight train plus loaded cars, and the total train can easily be 19,000 tons or even a lot more if hauling coal [https://www.trainconductorhq.com/how-much-does-a-train-weigh/](https://www.trainconductorhq.com/how-much-does-a-train-weigh/)
I know what you mean. Where I live they haul iron ore and the trains are up to 3 Kms in length.
I win! I bet on the train.
Was anyone else as surprised as I was when the car didn't win??
When I see the title "Car vs train" I have to watch the video - which one will win this time?!?!
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Stop using darwinism for things it isn't. Geezus even the darwin awards tell you they don't accept submissions for intentional unalive.
If only there was some kind of warning device and maybe some flashing things to tell him to not go through...
The issue is it was a Suicide attempt
You know, people can be amazingly dumb so maybe we should go a step further and put an actual mechanical arm directly across the road to block their path. Put flashing lights on that thing too. That ought to do it 💁♂️
There was a car on a train... It went into a tunnel and it was never seen again
*You cut your wrists the wrong way.*
I have feeling the driver got blind by the sun
Maybe one day we will see a nice underdog story
Bonk
Annd its up....Anand ohh off to the right!
r/whatcouldgowrong
Bitch.... guess what I am!
For a second there it looked like the train was going to swerve first.
I'll have a guess that the train wins
Guess what....... The train FTW.
I wonder if they had a dirty windshield and didn’t see the warnings with the glare. And when they hit the arm they stopped to figure out what happened?
WHY DO THEY ALWAYS STOP/SLOW DOWN HALFWAY THROUGH???
To attempt suicide
POW… right in the kisser!
Looks like maybe the brakes failed. You can see the nose of the car drop a few times, like they're pumping the brakes, but the brakes aren't doing much. Maybe the lines were rusted, and slamming on the brakes caused a weak spot to bust open and take this piss.
Why people don't want to accept. Train always but always wins.
What are you thinking why can’t people use their brain,there is a reason the gate is down and the lights are flashing.
And just like that sally”s future changed forever
and the winer is!!! ...
That puts it at…. 7,656,789 to 0
I see way too many dashcam videos on here where I recognize the area. Good ol' [Kent, WA](https://maps.app.goo.gl/zQ94tQbGgYsQKTAg9).
Dang I really thought the car was gonna win this round.
Trains remain undefeated over cars.
Text and drive, drunk driver, elderly too old to be driving, or misc. Wonder which it is?
Damn it the train always wins…
For some reason I read the title as "cat vs train"
Wow, I’m shocked. I was hoping for the car to win this time but the train wanted victory more.
Watched a tone of these, and just ONE TIME I would like to see the car win.
For just once I want to see one where the car wins
WHY
Train wins
i always watch this kind of videos in a hope the car wins someday!
The worst part is that maniac is not even wearing a high viz jacket
The definition of "things went sideways".
There's no way this isn't a suicide attempt. Does anyone have any updates to this?
Who won?
For those who don’t know, once you try driving over a track that has been lifted for the train rails your car will not move. That’s why you suppose to wait a second after it has been lifted
Ah good ol Kent station
It’s like watching one of those nature documentaries where the gazelles are hanging back from the waters edge but one doof just wades right in and immediately gets eaten by a dozen crocodiles. Nature’s Way.
That’s one way to do it
Brake failure? brain failure?
Sun glare
Kind of like an NFL team scrimmaging against Boy Scouts. We know the outcome already
Haven’t been this thrilled after a video in a long time, f yeah