Near misses at level crossings in Sussex

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@Chris-hf2sl 3 ай бұрын

I like the clip shown at about 16 seconds in, in which a man was trying to get his dog over the crossing. The dog didn't want to go and the man eventually gave up when the train came narrowly missing them both. This is an excellent example of when a dog has more sense than its owner.

@johnUB4478 4 ай бұрын

I was at foot crossing about a month ago, and a woman came along, with two dogs. I told her to stop, as a train was approaching, but no, straight across in front of a 158, doing around 70mph. She had to almost run to get across. When will people learn, railways aren't a playground 🤬

@trainlover16 4 ай бұрын

You blatantly told her to stop, yet she didn’t. Are all dumb people deaf?

@martyn6792 3 ай бұрын

@johnUB4478 coukldn't agree more especially with third rail

@easyJet_captain 3 ай бұрын

01:12 That driver should face criminal charges.

@EM-yk1dw 4 ай бұрын

The girl in the first clip must be the luckiest person alive.

@lukethomas.125 Ай бұрын

2:01 What's the problem here, the light is green, no train in coming.

@joshuatk59 4 ай бұрын

Watch the clip at 1:42 but on 0.25x speed. The light changes from green to red after he’d already began crossing. I don’t like how the clip was edited to make him look like a dangerous idiot, rather than to highlight that the crossing had a worryingly narrow 20 second window which clearly isn’t long enough. What if it was a slower elderly person crossing when the light changed? Hope Network Rail investigated this.

@tom201090 Ай бұрын

That was what I thought as well. When he started crossing it would have been green.

@robertwest9296 3 ай бұрын

I gringed most at the clips of those nitwits going up on the hydraulic gates for a laugh, and the van crew who broke a gate rather than simply wait a minute or two. For my money, that type of barrier just isn't good enough. The older wooden gates that rotate into place are far better. Taller, sturdier, closing off the railway when open to the road, and not so easy for impatient vehicles or cyclists to dodge around. I wish BR would go back to some tried and tested things.

@BradleyTheNo1Champion4variety 4 ай бұрын

The people who take these extremely dangerous decisions is incredibly foolish and not clever at all.😲😲

@Chris-hf2sl 4 ай бұрын

These were the lucky ones. Sometimes the idiots don't make it, which is a real problem because that upsets the driver.

@philtucker1224 3 ай бұрын

Some drivers never recover that trauma completely. All just to save money on proper crossing gates..

@Chris-hf2sl 3 ай бұрын

@@philtucker1224 What is a proper crossing gate? The current system has flashing red traffic lights to indicate that the barriers are about to close. Then after a suitable delay to allow people to stop, the entrance barrier comes slowly down, leaving the exit barrier open so that anyone already crossing can still get out. Then finally, the exit barrier comes down. The barriers are deliberately weak so that in an emergency cars can break through to prevent folk being trapped on the railway. It's difficult to see how this could be improved, other than by building a bridge over the railway, which costs mega-bucks and in many cases, there is no room for such a bridge anyway. As is often said, never underestimate the ingenuity of complete idiots, who always find a way to circumvent even the best safety measures. In some of the videos, pedestrians can be seen climbing over the closed barriers to get across, even when there's a pedestrian bridge available for them. What a lot of folk don't realise is that high speed trains take ages to stop. In many cases by the time a driver is near enough to see someone on the railway, he couldn't stop the train in time, even if he wanted to.

@jamesgoodman1733 4 ай бұрын

2:00 the light was green the whole time so how is it a near miss

@spinba11 3 ай бұрын

I think it’s about actually stopping on the crossing

@cigmorfil4101 3 ай бұрын

Possibly because the dog was stopped on the crossing waiting for its owner to catch up.

@philoshaughnessy906 3 ай бұрын

The guy wheeling the bicycle who just stopped on the tracks looks like he did it just because he could. But did he give any thought to the driver of the train bearing down on him whose heart was probably in his mouth? Unbelievable!

@gerhard6105 3 ай бұрын

Here in the Netherlands you only have 30 seconds. Some tourists miscalculated......And then there is always the sign with: "WAIT till the red light is OFF. Another train can come". And an unofficial one that looks like the official sign:" You wanne stay alive? Then wait a while". " Wilt u blijven leven? Wacht dan even". It rimes perfectly

@tom201090 Ай бұрын

In the UK it varies upon the type of signalling. I think it is anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 mins between activation and train arrival (some trains go slower than others). In the USA it is 20 seconds (although I have seen one video where the train reaches and starts crossing before the barrier is down) which, considering a lot of their crossings seem to be just before road junctions and a lot of American's don't possess something called 'Common Sense' is a bit too short.

@gerhard6105 Ай бұрын

@@tom201090 okay, good to know. I already knew that about the Americans 😁

@paulroberts3639 3 ай бұрын

Why do these boom gates stop people exiting the intersection? Here in Australia we only block them driving into the crossing, not out. Yes the odd maniac goes around. But they’re the same people who otherwise get caught racing the boom gates and get stuck over the tracks.