Truck Tries to Outrun Train [13+]

stop being such a smart ass u dumb f@ck

...you being a dumb ass.

the truck driver thought john hancock coming..

he just panicked

a 1 minute margin for waiting for the bar to come down? That's absurd. If you need one minute to react to that you should never have received a driving license. 5 seconds should be plenty of time. The lights flash, and the bar drops, indicating A HUGE TRAIN THAT WILL DOMINATE YOU IS COMING (if you're dumb enough to get in its way).

The one gate lowered first causing the driver to try to reverse, then the other gate came down behind him causing a trap as these are supposed to be syncronized but were defective, also lowered much too quickly and with WAY inadequate time before the high speed train reaches the intersection! The driver should have just backed up and broken the gate behind him but may have had other vehicles right on his tail (as usual), but by the time he shifted gears again the train was on top of him and I'm betting from his point of view that it appeared the train could have been on the tracks that he was forced to stop on in the first place and he bailed and sacrificed the trailer, which wasn't a bad call at all. Yes the railway had a deadly trap set for anyone driving anything across that intersection from that direction and should be sued for neglegence, endangerment and damages, without question.

there are alot of good points in your comment that I won't argue with. BUT, I have a CDL and have driven trucks across the railroad tracks. There are so many vids out there of semis getting hit that it only takes a little bit of common knowledge. In this case the driver should have just backed up. Broke the gate, maybe total the vehicle behind it at 5 mph ( no bodily injury ) but save the truck and trailer. Not to mention that that freight train had to stop causing it a delay. The train always wins, sacrefice the other guy. It would have been a slow accident. 5 mph.

but good trying, you know how that goes. We can't see what he was looking at in his mirrors or what he could or couldn't see going on around him and that train was going entirely too fast through that intersection, the gates barely had enough time to operate, and then they didn't work right. Maybe he had other trucks right behind him and knew he couldn't go back and bailed forward. And we've seen what can happen with this era's flimsy new 'Insurance friendly' cars when even slighty impacted- crumple and explode into flames. Maybe, maybe not. And I'd (maybe) rather sacrifice the trailer than shove back into a school bus or minivan full or kids or a couple bikers or whatever. We can only second guess, but some of these reviewers jumped to the wrong conclusions and obviously made rash remarks out of ignorance...the kind of ignorance that contributes to these kinds of incidences every day. People need to think before they react, and even so S**t still happens and the pro drivers are forced deal with stupid-crazy people and situations all the time whether it's construction zones set up by retards or 'fast & furious' motorists on suicide missions, (cops included). We can't afford to make any mistakes today and partly because there is a surplus of people only too eager to climb in your ass over something of which they have little or no understanding. And at times like this, it's a matter of life and death and you've got -10 seconds to decide what to do, if you have no good choices hope you at least make the least worst decision and make it.

First of all you are never supposed to stop on the tracks, but in this case the one gate came down very quickly and only seconds before the train came jetting through. From the camera's vantage point it looks obvious but when you are sitting on the tracks about 10 feet away from the train the view is much different, but with more experience behind the wheel you would know that. The rail road is to blame here. And it looks like the conductor was running too fast as they are regularly trying to catch up time if they are running behind schedule.

He probably lost his head !!

his boss made him pay for the $80k truck he destroyed.
ande pay his own hospital bill too!

!

he moves forward for his death...X-{

He should have backup after he stopped, there was no way he was goiing to make it across. He used poor judgement, the only way he had a chance to make is if he never stopped to begin with.

I doubt it, try shifting into reverse with and air-shift transmission and back up quickly with 20 idiots in cars riding your ass behind you honking their horns, I'm betting you're probably one of those that are always there helping to create a dilemma, one of those react first, think later types.

You are the another 1 out of 10 here that have eyes that can see and capable of object thinking.

Or simply cannot see something very obvious and figure it out!

for yourself ? You obviously do not understand what happened in the clip, I guess you have that problem alot.

It takes a very long time to stop a train. That was a high-speed line and that train would have taken a few minutes to completely stop.

I don't appreciate you stealing my username and going around this site posting rubbish comments.

with the foot fetish? Men's feet? Logger's toes from 12 hours in cork boots? Nasty.

Look again and you will see.

He probably got hit.

and that's all the better of a take on this situation that you can get??

could have, not could of. Buy a dictionary.

Lol.