How in god's name do you hit a train?

**James Deuce** · 19th December 2009, 07:31

Originally Posted by Mrs Cowboyz

A friend of mine was at the scene....the idiot was speeding trying to beat the train and tried to go between the barrier arms already down.....he himself didnt get hit by the train only his bike.....he suffered a broken leg at the most.

Awesome friend. I would have broken his neck not his leg.

**Ronin** · 19th December 2009, 07:32

Originally Posted by Mrs Cowboyz

A friend of mine was at the scene....the idiot was speeding trying to beat the train and tried to go between the barrier arms already down.....he himself didnt get hit by the train only his bike.....he suffered a broken leg at the most.

thanks mate another count for acc!

Yep, pretty hard to blame anyone else for that one. Darwin at his finest.

**jim.cox** · 19th December 2009, 08:33

Originally Posted by Azi Dahaka

How in god's name do you hit a train?

By mis- judgement , thats how...

Misjudging the speed mostly I recon - small frontal area, and the trains actually are moving fast - faster than the victims realise.

That, and the crossings that jump out at you - go into them too hot, not realisng you you dont actually have much sight distance and not leaving your self enough space to brake when it tuins out that there IS a train there.

And the crossings are slippery - all that crap on the road from the waiting vehicles, metal rails, diesel from the trains etc etc... So its easy to go down when you do take that big handful of brake or throttle.

And then of course there is " taget fixation"

The causes are miriid - ya just gotta be careful out there

**Nasty** · 19th December 2009, 08:35

Originally Posted by jim.cox

By mis- judgement , thats how...

Misjudging the speed mostly I recon - small frontal area, and the trains actually are moving fast - faster than the victims realise.

That, and the crossings that jump out at you - go into them too hot, not realisng you you dont actually have much sight distance and not leaving your self enough space to brake when it tuins out that there IS a train there.

And the crossings are slippery - all that crap on the road from the waiting vehicles, metal rails, diesel from the trains etc etc... So its easy to go down when you do take that big handful of brake or throttle.

And then of course there is " taget fixation"

The causes are mirid - ya just gotta be careful out there

I hope that you are not calling this person a "victim" ... that is the train driver who is the victim, by this one persons actions. I know for a number of drivers this is one of their worst fears - that some person who did not think - call it fixation if you will - will try to beat a train and get hurt in the fall out of it.

**Genie** · 19th December 2009, 08:37

Originally Posted by Mrs Cowboyz

A friend of mine was at the scene....the idiot was speeding trying to beat the train and tried to go between the barrier arms already down.....he himself didnt get hit by the train only his bike.....he suffered a broken leg at the most.

thanks mate another count for acc!

Well, that's just bloody silly and selfish....stupid stupid idiot. could have been killed, bet his mother/girlfriend will give him a good slap around the ears!!!!!! Well I hope somebody does!!!

**jim.cox** · 19th December 2009, 10:52

Originally Posted by Nasty

I hope that you are not calling this person a "victim" ... that is the train driver who is the victim, by this one persons actions. I know for a number of drivers this is one of their worst fears - that some person who did not think - call it fixation if you will - will try to beat a train and get hurt in the fall out of it.

There's more than one victim in most accidents

**dipshit** · 19th December 2009, 11:09

Originally Posted by Genie

Well, that's just bloody silly and selfish....stupid stupid idiot.

Oh no... motorcyclist's shit doesn't stink... it must have been the train's fault!

**Kickaha** · 19th December 2009, 11:15

Originally Posted by dipshit

Oh no... motorcyclist's shit doesn't stink... it must have been the train's fault!

Of course it was the trains fault, are you fucking mad trying to imply a motorcyclist may be at fault?

**dipshit** · 19th December 2009, 11:21

Originally Posted by Kickaha

Of course it was the trains fault, are you fucking mad trying to imply a motorcyclist may be at fault?

How anyone in here could try to blame something else other than rider error is beyond me and shows how fucked in the head some motorcyclists are.

**Dean** · 19th December 2009, 11:46

HAHA I was browsing the threads until I found this:
Thread title. "How in god's name do you hit a train"
Latest post by. "Dipshit".

**klingon** · 19th December 2009, 14:12

Originally Posted by trustme

Were there 2 sets of tracks. I knew a couple of girls who stopped for a train, didn't wait for the bells to stop & took off as soon as the train passed. They never saw the train coming the other way on the tracks further away.
They lived but only just.

I saw a pedestrian do exactly the same thing. Auckland's Western Line is in the process of being double-tracked. People have been used to crossing a single track for years. Bells go, train passes, people step out onto the track. BUT WAIT! Now there's another train coming the other way!

The pedestrian I saw didn't get hit, but he must have got the fright of his life. He literally ran backwards off the track. He won't be doing that again.

The lights and barriers at our local crossing regularly malfunction. The barriers come down even when there's no train coming, with the bells and lights going and the whole drama. The queue of traffic starts to build and nobody seems to know what to do, then inevitably someone decides to drive around the barriers. The first car goes very cautiously, then the rest of them just follow like sheep!

One day a train really will show up and someone's going to get hit. I just hope I'm not around to see it, because that will be nasty.

**Genie** · 19th December 2009, 14:18

Originally Posted by klingon

I saw a pedestrian do exactly the same thing. Auckland's Western Line is in the process of being double-tracked. People have been used to crossing a single track for years. Bells go, train passes, people step out onto the track. BUT WAIT! Now there's another train coming the other way!

The pedestrian I saw didn't get hit, but he must have got the fright of his life. He literally ran backwards off the track. He won't be doing that again.

The lights and barriers at our local crossing regularly malfunction. The barriers come down even when there's no train coming, with the bells and lights going and the whole drama. The queue of traffic starts to build and nobody seems to know what to do, then inevitably someone decides to drive around the barriers. The first car goes very cautiously, then the rest of them just follow like sheep!

One day a train really will show up and someone's going to get hit. I just hope I'm not around to see it, because that will be nasty.

Shit, I find this very scarey. We don't have trains down this way and I'm glad. Train crossings give me the shits!!!!

Have you informed the rail company about this faulty crossing?

Geez, you'd think they'd be out fixing that pronto.

**Pedrostt500** · 19th December 2009, 15:19

Ah I see you haver all solved the mystery, I was going to chalk it up to a Nija Trains, yep they pop up out of no where, knock you off your bike then run and hide behind a tree, and laugh at you.
The other thing you have to be aware of is flying purple cabooses, they may drop on you while you are swimming.

**Fluffy Cat** · 19th December 2009, 15:28

i think you mean flying purple caribou as these are much more dangerous and knowing their behaviour the train had probably swerved to avoid the fore mentioned herbivore on its way to a quick haircut methinks.