Let me guess, you were driving this Audi.

@@kogel0 Nope! I drive a Kia. And if that's all you got? 🤣🤣

That's no excuse even if that was the case of a ''family emergency'' - better one minute late in this world than one early in the next. There is a stereotype of Audi drivers not using their indicators, but in this case clearly putting indicators to force against right of way. Cutting across, using wrong lanes, tailgating, driving like a menace, and there you are playing Devil's advocate talking about a feeling of superiority from the cammer.

@@Manu-Official So let me get this right... You find that a loved one is seriously ill or injured, there may not be much time left. So you drive slowly and break no laws at all? As you have said, he indicated his intention. That is not a bad driver in the normal scheme of things. That he did that automatically shows that his driving is probably better in normal times. As for playing devils advocate? Nope! I mean what I say. There are lots of this type of vid on KZbin. Videos that are of no consequence, I have some on my other channel. But not to denigrate other drivers. I don't call them out because of it, I educate others with it. The cammer has issues if he feels the need to highlight someone else's bad driving to make himself feel better. If he had just said "This guys in a rush, what do you think?" he could have got away with it, but this is just a "look at me and how good I am" post!

​@@Manu-Official So you wouldn't take any extra risk when driving if you got a call that your husband was on his deathbed? You wouldn't risk an overtake to potentially being able to say a final goodbye and not?

Its how the horn is on the flirts because they are made in Switzerland

@@BritishRailwaySpotter still better than CAF horns tbf, they're so quiet

The power unit

THANK YOU THATS CLEARED THAT ONE UP🙂😉

I was on one of these trains yesterday, Marks Tey to Sudbury branch. Just like the electric London-Norwich trains, they look very much like European trains. Made in Italy I think. 👍💯🇬🇧😎

​@@InvictaViewMade in Switzerland by Stadtler.

@@mikehindson-evans159 Thanks. They were really nice I thought. You walk between both power units in the corridor, but well insulated it seemed. Maybe it was the AC Norwich trains I thought were Italian made? They were excellent too. 👍💯🇬🇧

Flashing Red lights mean YOU MUST STOP . The lights were flashing at the time , there’s no excuse. Just pure impatience

The lights and sirens were going, meaning that the DHL driver effectively ran a red light.

I think that the lights alone give the train right of way. Also, a bit of common sense is required. Clearly that driver will be a Reform voter - all promises and no delivery!

Any that's why you failed your UK driving test because as soon a the lights are on you have to stop.

If you mean the DHL driver he will almost certainly be self-emploed and not a union member! But you clearly have a downer on Unions. Why?

I will stick my neck out and suggest that he is the type who thinks that trades unions are pointless and a waste of money. Pretty much the same as his attitude to warning sounds and flashing lights...

only a couple of hours I thnk

It’s in the title… barrier fail 😂

@@tfairley1187 Oh gawd, I totally missed that lol 😂

You know - I never noticed till you mentioned it? Oops.

The van driver had a little Yank in him too.....driving in front of trains is a regular occurrence in the US, often with deadly results. Just search on 'Brightline' in Florida for examples

It's a horrible design like most modern trains

@@kevingraham2733 No it's not.

​@kevingraham2733 it works, for the Anglian region. With retractable steps outside every door, it provides brilliant levels of access. Built as three-car and four-car formations, all have the power car in the middle. Innovative and effective.

It’ll use the other end of the train to get electric

For third rail trains there are pickup shoes at either end of the train alleviating that issue.

Many of the trains in this region are driver-only operated.

In the UK, we have many types of crossing, and at some, such as an MCB-CCTV, MCB-OD or AHB, a train would not normally be allowed to pass over the crossing unless it had been flagged across if the barriers had failed to lower or were missing. This looks like an AOCL that has been retrofitted with barriers (making it an AOCL+B). These are crossings that would normally only have lights and are found on lightly used rural lines with lower speeds where they pass over quieter roads. Because of some misuse by motorists, most of them are being upgraded to have barriers as well, but these aren’t interlocked with the signalling, instead that little signal on the left hand side of the line just before the crossing will indicate to the driver if the road lights are flashing, the klaxon is sounding and the barriers are down. If that isn’t the case, as is here, and due to the rural nature of this type of crossing, the driver will contact the signaller and get their authority to pass the crossing. They must sound the horn as they pass the protecting signal, then continuously as they pass the crossing and must travel at a speed where they can stop before any obstruction (such as a car). The signaller is likely unaware that the level crossing has failed, as AOCL are not normally linked to the overall signalling systems, but will be now they have been informed by the driver, and a local signalling response team will be despatched (which is what I do for a living). The DHL driver has committed a road traffic offence by passing a flashing red road light.

@@southcalderthank you for explaining the situation, many thanks 😊.

LMAO

I’m guessing the driver waved for the van to cross due to the van stopping then going

Really? 85% of people in England were born in England (probably more where this is filmed) and British drivers are not all patient law abiding saints.

I get regular DHL pickups and deliveries, I'd say more than 90% of those drivers are British born and raised, same for Parcelforce and UPS the same cannot be said for a number of other couriers e.g DPD some of who cannot even find a house number when there are less than 50 addresses in the lane. Most of the couriers work on a stupidly tight schedule though

@@rickfarny 2021 census say in that part of East Anglia 94% were born in the UK

Assuming the lights were working. It's always possible the only thing working was the sound alert, if the barriers failed you can't guarantee something else didn't fail as well. But sure the sensible thing to do if you see a train stopped at a Level Crossing and the barriers aren't down is to stop and wait. But we also didn't see the DHL van approach, so it could have been the situation that the train had already been sitting there for 5-10 minutes & the DHL van came to a complete stop and waited briefly before checking that the train wasn't actually moving & proceeded through the crossing.

@@CoolSteve08 It's not likely as the lights and alarm are on the same, original, circuit. The barrier pack is a bolt-on.

The train had a bad curry, the night before

lol

A loud one

Angry

Loud...and angry.....must be American 😅

​@@rovertaw22actually it's a Swiss horn

Oulton broad gravel pit crossing

@@pauljohnson4590 cool thanks. Subbed