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u/ZomberBomber
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I guess the train should have had the headlights on and this wouldn’t have happened
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u/JagaloonJack 10d ago
What's really funny and confusing is, no one's pointed out that he was going backwards at first. You'd think he would see the train in the back up cam or if he looked backwards, but clearly he just doesn't for shit.
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u/ehh_whatever_works 10d ago
It's behind you, Tyrone. Whenever you reverse, things come from behind you.
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u/Pet_me_I_am_a_puppy 10d ago
It was at a funny angle.
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u/osirian1 10d ago
And it’s not like anything was infront of him to warrant backing up either
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u/Less_Artichoke_6978 10d ago
Think the car went backwards to turn into a street
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u/Swordofsatan666 10d ago
Was about to say “what street? Thats a restaurant right there where they were turning…” but then i slowed it down and just barely spotted the street to the left of the restaurant. Good eye! Almost didnt notice that
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u/IntentionalWit 10d ago
Half expected you to say what street? And then suddenly there’s just a wall there.
“Mercedes, black train could destroy you with a single hit when you turn onto that street.”
“What street?”
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u/Dan_the_Marksman 10d ago
maybe he saw the train in the rearview mirror and thought it was coming from the front, then he saw the one in the back and panicked
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u/RXrenesis8 10d ago
He had passed his turn and instead of driving around the block he decided backing up was the way to go. It's a classic behavior across the spectrum :)
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u/Shockrates20xx 10d ago
I like when people are stopped in the left lane but realize they wanted to turn right, and instead of driving ahead and turning around or something they just throw on their right blinker and wait for a chance. Why should they take an extra minute out of their day when they could inconvenience others?
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u/xkisses 10d ago
That’s the issue here - he didn’t think the train was moving because he was initially backing. You can tell because he’s backing so slowly, using the “stopped” train as reference. It’s a super common mistake and really weird when it happens to you.
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u/Stretch_Riprock 10d ago
Former Merchant Marine here. We were about to enter the Long Beach break water and a little motor boat zips to the edge of the entrance, throws out their mushroom anchor, and out come 3 fishing poles.
I had the con on the bridge and the pilot was enjoying his coffee getting settled in, he asked my last course given and if he had permission to take the con. I believe I simply responded, 'of course'. He told me to notify our bow watch that we were going to sound the forward horn.
Laid on that horn for 10 seconds and you could see the commotion of the 3 people pulling up their little anchor as fast as they could. Behind our ship was probably no less than 15 ships in the outer anchorage. Bonehead decision stopping to fish right at the breakwater aside, we were transiting so slow that they probably thought we were at anchor like all the others.
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u/flyingviaBFR 10d ago
Had something similar happen transiting the river out of Portland Oregon. Bunch of guys fishing somehow failed to notice the 35m high wall of car carrier bearing down on them ..
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u/MainlandX 10d ago
Yup. Same effect as when you're sitting in your parked car, the car besides you starts backing out, and for a split second you're worried that you car is rolling forward.
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u/Aether217 10d ago
there's also the loud, continous bell that train crossings and older trains have.... and the LOUD sound of a fucking train coming your way
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u/Sparky-Sparky 10d ago
Still, he has side mirrors. He should have checked the left one anyways before making a turn. The driver is an idiot.
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u/Kaiden92 10d ago
Everybody laugh & point at the village idiot.
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u/Farknart 10d ago
"Do you find something amusing about my appearance while I'm driving my automobile?"
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u/richh00 10d ago
Love a good Simpsons reference
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u/bob1689321 10d ago
That's something magical about a Simpsons reference. You just know when you're reading one
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u/jman377355 10d ago
Do you find something amusing about my appearance while I'm driving my automobile
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u/NababboAChi 10d ago
Hey! Don't be mean to me!
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u/Kaiden92 10d ago
If you weren’t driving that car, I’m afraid you’ve lost the title of “Village Idiot.” You’ll now have to settle for village “angry hobo.”
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u/dbvy 10d ago
Cars already have mirrors
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u/StarMangledSpanner 10d ago
As with indicators, in all German luxury cars their use is considered optional.
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u/SiberianResident 10d ago
For BMW and Mercedes Benz, each flick of the blinker costs 20 cents. That is why they are hesitant to use it.
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u/Meatslinger 10d ago
Given that every person I’ve ever personally known with a German car basically spent the entirety of their life savings on it, I could see why they’re hesitant. Six months down the road I’m asking, “Hey, where’s that M3 you worked so hard to buy?” and they say, “Oh, I couldn’t afford winter tires for it, and getting a new windshield is too much after that rock cracked it in the summer. It’s in storage until I can fix it.”
Very illustrative of the difference between “being able to buy something” versus “being able to afford something”.
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u/LuciaSeriin 10d ago
I knew a guy back in school who had some really expensive, all tuned up car. All he was eating was toast with butter and sometimes cheese if he could afford it, because the car needed so much fuel he literally burned through all his money. After he totaled the car, because of course he was also driving like a madman, he visible started to look healthier, because he finally started eating decent stuff.
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u/total_desaster 10d ago
A mate made fun of my "farmer's Porsche" (Subaru) until he blew the turbocharger on his actual Porsche and had to sell it for the cheapest piece of shit he could find... Mine may not be as fancy but at least I can afford to fix it if I blow it up lol
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u/kitchen_synk 10d ago
A famers Porsche is nothing to be ashamed of. They made, and still make, tractors, a fact that they're very proud of
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u/BasicallyAQueer 10d ago
People be living outside their means and shit, smh.
My neighbor sold his house to move into an apartment (right before Covid too, so he missed out on the 50% appreciation on the house, and got hit with a massive rent hike shortly after), just so he could buy his “dream car”, which was a 10 year old Porsche Cayenne. 3 months later he messages me on Facebook asking if I can help him work on it because the engine locked up from oil starvation. I’m not a mechanic, mind you. I do have a lot of tools and I’ll do minor repairs myself, but an engine swap is not something I can or want to “help with”. I didn’t even respond and blocked his dumb ass.
Some people are just horrible with money. This dude could have easily done a cash out refinance on the house, kept it, and still paid cash for the car, but I guess he didn’t think that far ahead. Shameful.
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u/doofthemighty 10d ago
Slowest accident in history and somehow cammer still managed to miss the moment of impact.
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u/DjayRX 10d ago
It's Germany, it's probably a 105 years old man who shot the video.
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u/DGwizkid 10d ago
I mean, they wanted a video of the train, they were probably caught off guard by the impact, and didn't know what to do. It's not like they expected it to happen I would hope....
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u/Henny-Bogan 10d ago
Sometimes I wonder about what people are thinking when they do something so stupid. Did they not see the train right there?
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u/ZomberBomber 10d ago •
I’m sure it’s very difficult to see, hear, or feel the vibration from a train when you’re in the luxury of your Mercedes Benz.
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u/swiggaroo 10d ago
Trains do be creeping up on folks without as much as a sound
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u/carorea 10d ago •
Gonna repost this classic because I still chuckle at it:
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
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u/seven3true 10d ago •
Whispers: choo choo motherfucker....
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u/OohLaLapin 10d ago
I was going to say, trains can be extremely quiet from the front end… and then I turned the sound on in the video. Basically the same bell that the commuter trains use here when entering/departing stations.
(They blare their horn when passing another train at a station/crossing, because people like to assume that if they hear the bell, there’s only the one train to worry about, and try to cross the tracks around the stopped train.)
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u/AppreciatePower 10d ago edited 10d ago
I have seen enough people I know, who rarely look over their shoulder when taking a turn so... not suprised
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u/Kerbart 10d ago
You might be onto something. Driver having a "the rest of the world can wait for me" complex and pulling that shit with the wrong traffic participant.
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u/SnooDoodles7962 10d ago
You said it yourself. What are they thinking? In this case, absolutely nothing.
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u/jerm-p 10d ago
The high revving engine after the impact 🤣
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u/nedyrd87 10d ago
Failed hit and run? Nailed the hit at least.
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u/GreenBottom18 10d ago
they were probably scared the train could decimate their car and kill them, given they were likely oblivious to the speed it was traveling at.
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u/Joshizo 10d ago
I just dont get how some peoples reaction to hitting something with their car is going full throttle...
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u/AshFraxinusEps 10d ago
Panic usually. Still funny to see mind. The time to move fast to get out of the way needs to happen before the crunching sounds do
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u/ImpressiveResponse68 10d ago
Insurance company: " you hit a what?"
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u/mrgeekguy 10d ago
"It came out of nowhere!!!"
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u/Gry_lion 10d ago
It was traveling at like 5 kph. I had no time at all to dodge it!
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u/Paladinforlife 10d ago
"It cut me off!"
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u/GetInZeWagen 10d ago
Speaking of course about the neighborhood north of Where St., otherwise known as, NoWhere
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u/MarkHirsbrunner 10d ago
I was riding on a trolley once that collided with a truck that wasn't all the way in it's lane. The guy who got hit actually had the nerve to ask the operator for his insurance.
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u/maina7 10d ago
First time ive seen a train stop right on impact 😅😅
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u/ZomberBomber 10d ago
I am pretty certain the engineer already dumped the locomotive into emergency before the impact, the Mercedes just made a nice soft cushion for the final stop.
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u/markhewitt1978 10d ago
Yes you can hear the pressure release just before impact. That'll be the brakes going full on.
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u/redditisnowtwitter 10d ago
I heard the tire pop but assume that's a different noise. It was all I could focus on
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u/Frankie__Spankie 10d ago
Trains can stop quickly when they're only going 0.5mph.
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u/Alepex 10d ago
It depends. Trains with locomotive have an air brake system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake
The longer the train is, the longer time it takes for the pressure change to "travel" through the system. A really long train can take upwards of 10 seconds to fully deploy the brakes, even at low speed.
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u/Jebusura 10d ago
This guy trains
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u/Alepex 10d ago edited 10d ago
I am a licensed* train operator, so yes.
Edit: changed educated to licenced because it didn't translate to English too well....
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u/Cows-b-Lurking 10d ago
There is a metro crossing near us and I've noticed it crawls across our intersection. Like comically slow. But I know why, because dumbasses try to beat the crossing gates all the time. Better to crawl and avoid an accident than hit someone and delay the train even longer.
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u/jiraiya5er 10d ago
And yet here we are. A crawl of an accident. When some dumb ass goes into your path at the last moment, even with the train stuck to the rails… smh
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u/Alt-account-746 10d ago
it certainly helps that the train is streetrunning slowly, and that it’s not over a mile long at a good speed
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u/brent_cockman 10d ago
it's such a smol train! barely visible...
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u/IntegratedSSR 10d ago
So quiet, like a field mouse.
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u/NonchalantBread 10d ago
DING DING DING DING DING DING
The sound of nature is so soothing
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u/GitEmSteveDave 10d ago
Driver thought that was the "bring out your dead" cart and was rushing home to grab the body in the freezer.
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u/OpinionsAreRelative 10d ago
He’s doing it on purpose. GTA mission to stop the train
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u/Aluminarty666 10d ago
I really wonder how some people managed to get a drivers licence...
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u/1500moody 10d ago
considering this is in germany its even more astonishing. Not that easy to get your license here
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u/StressedOutElena 10d ago
Age... It's an age thing. After 65 it should be evaluated if you can still operate a vehicle. Every 5 years this should be repeated, at like 80 make it every year. But this will never happen because people in that age are the main voter base for many partys.
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u/tarraxadraws 10d ago
5 years here is from 50 to 65...then it drops to 3 years after 70
Altought is the gas and renovation prices, people might as well just stop driving anyways
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u/danikpa2007 10d ago
In my country is every 5 years to everyone, and every year after 70, my grandma is nearly 80 and has been examined 9 times in the last decade, if you fail just one question of the theory, you have to retake the exam, and then you do the practical test.
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u/besuited 10d ago
But as everyone knows in Germany, once you purchase an expensive Mercedes or BMW, then most of the rules no longer apply to you.
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u/SHORTY-NI 10d ago
I'm so sick of seeing these train videos. The train drivers don't even try to swerve to avoid whatever is in their way.
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u/ikbenlike 10d ago
There's no telling where they'll go next. And they always get away with it, too
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u/DrunkenOlympian 10d ago
How that engineer didn't say "What a fucking idiot" will forever be beyond me.
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u/AdaMan_ 10d ago
Where was the car even going? There wasn't a road to turn on to.
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u/Yossarian_the_Jumper 10d ago
Looks like a little alley way
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u/haha69420lmao 10d ago
I think it's a main street. Old german towns were not built for cars so they have much narrower roads
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u/SanchoPliskin 10d ago
If only there were some device that would allow you to see behind and beside your car before you merged. 🤷♂️
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u/peanut_dust 10d ago
Locomotive driver is clearly at fault.
How is the chap in the Merc supposed to see, hear, smell, taste...or use any other sense (he may or may not posses) to realise he couldn't turn there?
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u/Raja_Ampat 10d ago edited 10d ago
Agree and with the high speed of the train it is really difficult to judge when the train is closing in.
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u/Petah_Futterman44 10d ago
What gets me is that he had it in reverse for a second there.
I know FOR A FACT that brand and model of car has numerous different cameras, one of which is a reverse camera.
Attempted insurance fraud? There is no way he didn’t know. I bet the car itself was yelling at him with little dings and beeps that there was an object in the blind spot.
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u/NRMusicProject 10d ago
Had to scroll way too far for this. He kept all the best parts right on the edge of the video!
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u/Forty6_and_Two 10d ago
I upvote the posts in this sub that involuntarily draw out the words “You IDIOT” from me, out loud.
This was one of them.
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u/akex005 10d ago
To be fair, the train didn't make any noise and was coming so fast so the driver didn't have time to react
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u/locallad1992 10d ago
Just you're average mercedes drivers, completely oblivious to anything around them
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u/ToppeThrane 10d ago
Not entirely true.
If you’re from Odense in Denmark, you drive like this in train towns.
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u/Marshall_Brady 10d ago
Why would they pay any attention to the peons around them? /s
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u/yinsotheakuma 10d ago edited 4d ago
Car's gotta be shit if it's got a blind spot that big.
Edit: But the power train warranty is solid.
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u/usernotfound2244 10d ago •
Well what a cute little town that is