Video shows moment car collides with SunRail train in Florida

Video has been released in a deadly SunRail crash involving a vehicle in Kissimmee. The Florida Department of Transportation said the gates were operational at the time. WARNING: This video may be hard to watch. Viewer discretion is advised.
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[@ronniecarter9688]

Don’t matter if you put up a thousand signs and bullhorns sounding alarms… YOU CANT FIX STUPID

[@Martin199320]

Don't be so quick to judge you don't know if he was having a seizure or something similar

[@ronniecarter9688]

@@Martin199320 maybe.. or another case of distracted by cell phone or something else in the veh

[@Martin199320]

Don't always assume the worse in people, it's not a good trait

[@SoloPilot6]

Stupid certainly got fixed THIS time . . .

[@ronniecarter9688]

@@SoloPilot6 💯 I 👍🏾 agree, fully...

[@IgorRockt]

Driving through closed barriers? That's worthy of a Darwin award right there.

[@Martell-XO]

They won the Grand Prize.

[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

Winner, winner, no more dinners!

[@Dellvmnyam]

They got it

[@Roddy556]

​@@HANKTHEDANKESTlmao

[@rp7r54]

DARWIN AWARD WINNER

[@GH-oi2jf]

He went through a gate that was down. This is proof that the problem isn’t that the gates don’t close both sides of the street. The problem is careless drivers.

[@NotYoung3592]

Stupid drivers/suicidal drivers......

[@ypaulbrown]

@Nuby I do not think having headphones on keep you from seeing, but maybe because I am old

[@desmeisme]

Also why don’t they make those people more steady crashing into that instead of letting it roll onto the tracks

[@jameylane1591]

Did you not hear where she said the sun probably blocks their vision?

[@tvviewer4500]

He did it on purpose he wanted to die so his family could sue the train company. It's the oldest trick in the book.

[@sv4996]

Note to driver's: Train wins EVERY time. This one looks almost like a suicide.

[@mainchannel1839]

I am pretty sure this is suicide

[@eggyrepublic]

not if I'm transporting a neutron star in my trunk

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

Unless you're in an Abrams tank & the train is going 1 mph. But yeah the train wins every time.

[@rp7r54]

Note to driver's: Train wins EVERY time. Even if it is a tie.

[@kishasmith4573]

It has nothing to do with the area, It's the people driving trying to beat the train.

[@pulaski1]

That wasn't "trying to beat a train", the barriers were already down, and had been for several seconds.

[@KevinSamuelsPowerBottom]

@@pulaski1 I agree. They literally barreled through. It looks like a su!c!de mission.

[@Sweetjunglequeen]

👏🏼

[@madtrucker0983]

That dude was watching porn.

[@ElementofKindness]

Exactly! This is nothing to do with drivers being unaware. This is everything about impatient drivers not wanting to wait for a train to pass.

[@horroreader410]

I've been wait the railroad for 3 years and I still remember the face of the person killed by my train only days after I was out of training. The look of pure frozen terror. I found myself screaming in the cab "get out" over and over again as if they could hear me after the brakes were applied. It was right outside of Indianapolis at 2am. They eventually woke up from being frozen by fear and tried to backup off the tracks but backed into a dirt hill. My locomotive passed by and ripped off his front bumper, however one of the auto rack cars hooked the front and dragged the car into the side of a building past the crossing. He died from being crushed between the building. I still to this day wish I would've just taken 20 extra minutes to use the bathroom or something or even just left a few cars behind so the whole thing could've been avoided. It was hard for me to talk to my wife for weeks after that. Let things like this be a lesson. Regardless of who they are or what they did or who they have, there is ALWAYS, someone that's affected by these deaths. And it falls especially hard on us because we will almost always inevitably feel as if the blood was on our hands. Don't risk it. I case you need to hear it, I care about your life too much to wanna see this happen to you. Please take the extra few minutes. Your life means more to me than the alternative.

[@realight_]

what locomotive were you driving?

[@FRLN500]

​@@realight_"O" Guage Lionel 4-6-4.

[@tmurphy0919]

There was a suicide by train outside of Kansas City last year. The dude walked calmly up to the track, laid his head on the rail, and held eye contact with the engineer. I drove them back from the scene and they were not okay. Talked like they were though, trying to deal with it. IIRC, it was the 4th suicide for the engineer and the 2nd for the conductor.

[@Roddy556]

​@@realight_I don't mean to be rude and imply you have autism but that was probably the most autistic question anyone ever asked. I probably shouldn't have but I laughed.

[@richarddrum9970]

Driving through crossing gates will generally get you killed, trains can’t stop like cars. Feel sorry for the engineer who has to deal with that person’s death every day.

[@DAndyLord]

Goddamn. I watched a piece about subway operators who were forced to help a stranger with their suicide. What an unkind thing to do to a stranger. If you gotta go call the cops and do it in the shower. I simply can't imagine forcing a stranger to participate in something like that.

[@jaridkeen123]

They kill someone once a week in Florida. Drivers are so bad here

[@hughjass7101]

trains can’t stop like cars.? I had no idea!

[@southtownsjoe32]

why are you sorry, the engineer probably just laughed & said " another dumb fvck bites the dust" then went for coffee!

[@lilybond6485]

Wouldn’t feel bad if I was the train engineer. Unless the car was out of control and kids in the car.

[@theresacaron4238]

I once rode in the cab of a CN freight train as a guest. We were going through a town and our speed limit was 20 mph for a short section of track. 3 kids decided to play chicken by sitting between the tracks and waiting for the last moment to vacate. Two kids quickly stood up and left, the third one stumbled to one knee and disappeared from view leaving us wondering if he got away. We then saw him throwing up as we went by. Had we been going just a bit faster he would have died. So, yes, people do stupid things around trains and some die because of it.

[@ShortArmOfGod]

Too bad.

[@lutomson3496]

poor engineers having to deal with this stupid people killing themselves

[@nightwatchman5848]

There's a lot that never return to being an engineer again. May God be with them.

[@leadslinger49]

You never forget the sound.

[@anitakristensen4679]

Just think of the first responders that have to clean up the mess . That is a job that everyone can do. Splattered body and body parts all over .

[@DrKO2453]

I remember a train hit a truck when I was an EMT...the engineer was a wreck. Fortunately, it turned out just some asshole parked his truck on the tracks and stumbled into the local bar. Still...I will never forget the agony he displayed thinking he killed someone.

[@norisyanes3465]

@lutomson3496 bro got struck by the train

[@Tegridyvs]

I feel for the engineer of that train. These kind of incidents are hard to deal with. I’ve had an accident myself like this but it was an actual pedestrian. He didn’t survive and it really is hard for us railroaders to deal with this. We understand there’s nothing we could’ve done to prevent it but it’s just the carelessness of these individuals that really weighs on us. All we ever ask ourselves is “why did they do this?” Sadly it’s answers we’ll never get most of the time

[@markbeckham7298]

You don't have to be a Rhodes scholar to understand to NOT drive through the closed gates!

[@Porsche996driver]

Or a road scholar.

[@RoadTripA1A]

@@Porsche996driver 🤣🤣🤣

[@RoadTripA1A]

Assuming you can see that the gates are closed. There was mentioning that the road is in the direction of the sun causing vision impairment at that particular location. That would make a lot more sense than assuming everyone must be dumb.

[@hakeemsd70m]

​@@RoadTripA1A No excuses. This person decided to tango with a train and lost their lives as a result. That's just the way it goes. I feel much more sorry for the train crew and passengers.

[@RoadTripA1A]

@Hakeem Sd70M But if the sun prevented him from seeing the crossing, then he didn't choose "to tango with a train".

[@deputy3690]

The driver drove right through the warning stop gate, amazing.

[@lynnt092952]

I am sorry for the person's death, but that was totally preventable. When are people going to realize; you CAN'T outrun a train! You DON'T go through a crossing gate, or around it! I never saw so many people not have any value for their own lives!

[@shelbyng8703]

What about Fast & The Furious franchise? 🤔😉

[@andrewbui8295]

@@shelbyng8703 that's fiction. this is reality. do better troll.

[@pulaski1]

@@andrewbui8295 Yeah "reality" = "$4!t you couldn't make up". If you wrote about a fictional world where _on a daily basis_ people drove their lightweight road vehicles into the path of 150 ton locomotives, often dying as a result, it wouldn't be a plausible story.

[@Flipclockfans]

Well actually you Can out run a train. 99 times out of a hundred. It’s that hundredth time that makes the news.

[@leadslinger49]

F that train! I ain't waiting.

[@HoboEAT]

He will not do that again.............

[@1wheeldrive751]

Definitely learned his lesson.

[@gwiyomikim5988]

Almost all collisions with trains happen in the vicinity of railroad tracks. So when I see railroad tracks I look for trains. It’s a simple concept, but it works.😊

[@hejiranyc]

@Doug Spooner 🤣😂

[@philipkeeler9997]

Yep. The vicinity between the rails. lol

[@casper8076]

🤣🤣🤣

[@thefish5861]

Excellent point. I think the railroad tracks are somehow associated with trains.

[@williamanderson2447]

Almost all? Have you EVER heard of one happening elsewhere?

[@mistiinseattle]

When I lived in Fort Lauderdale I was amazed at how many people tried outpacing the train stop arms coming down and racing across the tracks. you are no match for a train.

[@rp7r54]

EVEN IF IT IS A TIE. THE DRIVERS WILL LOSE.

[@puffnstuff12]

Considering that the driver plowed right through the gate I tend to believe they were distracted driving.

[@josephlalock8378]

i feel better knowing that they are no longer on the road. they could have just as easily blown thru a red light and caused the death of someone else. good riddance.

[@keithjones8889]

Or trying to commit "Harakiri"⁉️🥺

[@jr3254]

Most gates have FLASHING RED LIGHTS ,there is no distraction driving, you have to maneuver around those dropped gates ,it's pur and simple of drivers being STUPID enough to belive they can beat that train

[@4seeableTV]

Or suicidal

[@johanna6050]

Or a matter of DUI

[@Rich-yj4ub]

Careless driver tried to beat the train 🚆 He lost!

[@mainchannel1839]

This was a suicide

[@eveskey7982]

I was taught by my railroad grandfather and father to slow down before crossing and do a look in both directions of the track. They said do not worry if someone behind gets mad and honks if you slow down, that my life was more important than the drivers attitude behind me to spare a few secs.

[@pulaski1]

That made sense back in the day, now we have automatic barriers, .... which you shouldn't drive through!!!

[@eveskey7982]

@@pulaski1 yea, but just that one time a malfunction happens with the crossing devices/barriers and basically its kiss your rear goodbye. I kinda like my rear-end too much to chance that 😃

[@pulaski1]

@@eveskey7982 Do you also slow down at traffic lights in case they are showing green in both directions? ... No, I thought not. 🙄 It is no more possible for a train to appear at a crossing without triggering the gates, lights, and bell, than it is for traffic lights to show green in two directions.

[@eveskey7982]

@@pulaski1 lmao 🤣 well aren't you a smart aleck.

[@jsterling6805]

@@pulaski1 You have a lot to learn. Go ahead barrel across tracks and bet your life on crossing guard. Each to his own. Surely you are more knowledgeable than the engineers of the trains.

[@dontask8979]

Self inflicted wound. What do you expect to happen when you drive in front of a TRAIN?

[@johnathanpatrick6118]

Even 18 wheelers lose to trains. I swear, idiotic driving can cause more accidents than some people believe. 😔🤦🏾‍♂️

[@jillconner5062]

Imagine the utter lack of awareness it takes to be hit by a train? Probably on the phone.

[@Gfysimpletons]

The gates were down…….definitely aware!

[@williampierce3299]

@Stranded NYerif you idiots pay attention you can tell that she went under the gate, realized what she was doing, then slowed down... right in front of the train. Maybe her covid mask slipped up in front of her eyes? 😂 😂 😂

[@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman]

Yea it always makes me shake my head with the total lack of awareness that MOST drivers express! Half of Americans cant drive anyway

[@roadking99jokerst60]

Investigators ought to be able to find phone use.

[@shaunguffey9199]

@Stranded NYer Yeah, because people like to ruin their vehicles by plowing right through the gate to beat the train. *sarcasm* It was distracted driving at the least.

[@K-ON_YuiHirasawa]

Literally, patience is a matter of life and death.

[@Blaze6432]

Condolences to all the passengers who lost minutes of their precious time because an idiot couldn't stop at a crossing.

[@dannybeeh6332]

and the train engineer for having to deal with the knowledge he killed someone, even if it was a Darwin Award.

[@culcune]

Don't forget any damage to the train. It's like I bet these trains are starting to get all banged up thanks to these idiots.

[@bikotheanimator6169]

@@dannybeeh6332 He can't go to hell specifically for that though. It wasn't his fault and it was not intentional.

[@jrviade85]

😂

[@renlynn555]

@@bikotheanimator6169 what?!

[@ellobo1326]

Driver was gonna save themselves 5-10 minutes, and lost their last 20-50 years.

[@ingridarlington5745]

I say suicide by train. We had a lady, in town, do that. It was Chistmas Eve and family said she was dealing with depression. A witness said that they passed her parking her car on the side of the road, not realizing that she was waiting for the train to come by.😪

[@mainchannel1839]

This looks like a suicide

[@ericl2969]

Getting onto the tracks ahead of the train and waiting several seconds to get hit would look like suicide. Crossing the tracks at such a high speed and getting struck on the fly with such perfect timing and accuracy is just bad luck resulting from distracted driving. A movie stunt coordinator would perform complex mathematical calculations to figure out how to carry out a collision like this with such precision, but suicidal driver would not.

[@marcbeebee6969]

This happens in germany alot. And in uk it is so bad that many stations have doors at the platform. Because suicide by train dont need a car

[@landonbenford8369]

It's been a problem here in Chicago with our rapid transit system known as "The El'". People walking onto the tracks especially at night or in the subway where you can't see them until... Now there are signs on platforms encouraging people to call 988, the Suicide prevention hotline.

[@sptraxide]

As a railfan, I disagree! People are in too big of a hurry now days. I always Stop, Look and Listen at grade crossings and almost EVERYTIME, someone behind me gets their feelings hurt. Someone flipping me the bird is better than being dead! "See tracks, think train"!

[@BruceBoschek]

Intentional? This has nothing to do with the railroad. Going through a closed gate is no different than running a red light on a busy intersection.

[@rpm2night]

Finally a headline that is accurate in this type of situation. Usually the headlines make it sound like the train’s fault.

[@pvt.2426]

I agree. A rather 'neutral' headline. Instead of the usual 'manipulative headline' with the vehicle's driver being portrayed as the victim. If the media really wanted to change people's thinking they might say: 'Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.' (Most people don't want to be known as 'stupid', so this may motivate them accordingly.) (Undoubtedly, the driver thought his/her disregarding the obvious was a 'smart move'.)

[@jr3254]

@@pvt.2426 I would had started the story as ,here's another STUPID IDIOT who drove around dropped gates to beat a Train and paid the price ,unfortunately the train engineer will have to live with that the rest of his or hers life ,because of a IDIOT

[@woods840]

It's the American media. What do you expect, truth?

[@marksday4936]

What network was it?

[@SilverBullet22250]

RPM, listed to what he has to say about the train @ 1:19 SMH kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWG8iWqrm6engrM

[@SL-lz9jr]

Tried to save a few minutes by crossing the gate. Well, they saved a whole lifetime by not having to live anymore.

[@ernestyeagley512]

I like when the anchor tells us that this video is hard to watch. Oh brother! Instead she should have said "this is what happens when you run railroad lights and gates and this is an example of the consequences paid. The problem is the train crew ( as I was now retired) has to live with this. Also the reporter says advanced signage "should be put up at this dangerous intersection." Why should someone else pay for additional signage when the existing signage (railroad crossing at grade red lights and gates) is completely ignored by these reckless and irresponsible people anyway? The intersections is not dangerous to those who obey the warning signals, only to those morons like the one illustrated here in this video.

[@patgood6961]

Look at the shadows. You can also see both sunvisors were down. They actually might be on to something. There is a good chance they couldn't see it and would also explain why this happens on a yearly basis at this intersection.

[@arnoldhenry]

@@patgood6961 I'm sorry, but that driver should have slow down when he/she came to the crossing. People are always in a hurry to get nowhere. The street I live on the drivers are going at least 50 from one light to the other. Why? Who knows? If both sun visors were down, if it was me, I'll be slowing down.

[@carsilk2492]

I'm like "Gather the kids we've got lessons to be teaching about being a damned moron!"

[@darrennew8211]

@@patgood6961 If you can't see whether you're about to run into something, you need to put on sunglasses or drive a different direction until the sun has moved. Or maybe clean your windshield. Would you say "It's not his fault he ran the red light and ran over that family of pedestrians, because the sun was in his eyes"? About the only thing that would help is one of those pillars that comes up and completely stops your car planted in the way. At least you wouldn't damage the train and with modern safety you'd probably even survive the collision.

[@johnamerican1578]

The train didn’t go off the tracks and hit a car ! Unfortunately drivers are getting in front of trains! The gate was down!

[@rogerhuber3133]

I don't see where that was "so hard to see". The railroad has more crossing protection there than most crossings. If you're so preoccupied with you cell phone, radio or whatever then you get what you deserve. Not much more that the railroad could do to properly and legally mark the crossing. She never hesitated for the crossing lights or arms and probably just tried to make it through.

[@WideWorldofTrains]

Never go around the gates

[@amosburton]

"..this video is hard to watch." They're absolutely right, it is hard to watch how dopey and entitled some people behave.

[@verushkacortes4]

Dopey? ENTITLED? WTH!

[@stevevonb]

Well it's good to see the person being interviewed is protecting herself and all around her by wearing a mask. Ha!

[@verushkacortes4]

@@stevevonb what?

[@SIGINT007]

This isn't news. This is a careless driver not paying attention to the road around them.

[@cool2180]

Man if that wasn't suicide then that was a very careless person driving like the fast and the furious. I am sorry if any passengers were inconvenienced

[@mainchannel1839]

This was absolutely a suicide, car drove under guardrail turning toward train and stopped, I am glad someone else noticed this, comment needs more upvotes

[@donallen7830]

Agree on the probability of suicide.

[@darrennew8211]

@@mainchannel1839 Nah. He was distracted reading a text on his phone or something. When he ran through the gates, the noise made him instinctively slam on the brakes while he processed what just happened.

[@adiprayetno6702]

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[@timdaugherty5921]

Prayers to the train crew who had to witness this

[@carsten4594]

And the pedestrian? Distracted walking?

[@iikhalaii8784]

I don't drive but I just can't imagine why someone would just drive through tracks with no regard for the stop signals

[@KB-nt7eg]

How could you make an observation about something you don't do? Lol. You are society in a nutshell.

[@almightybunghole]

TikTok and Candy Crush Saga...that's how

[@user-yl4zq5vu9d]

@KB you don’t need a license to know that driving through a train crossing gate when a train is coming is bad??

[@staintedcards]

A they are in too much of hurry to wait 10 secs for the train to pass B they dont give a sht C going to fast so they gun it hoping to beat the train then you got folks who claim they didnt see the crossing or drunk or drugs or sucicde by train then the family hires some A Hole lawyer to sue the RR thinking they will settle nope dont work like that RR will tie them up in court for years filing all kinds motions by that time the family will be broke and lawyer says we have no case

[@Gfysimpletons]

@@KB-nt7eg your trolling needs lots of work lady, just sayin’………..

[@bill9989]

Anyone who drives knows that the degree of recklessness has gone up exponentially. Every day I see idiots flying up behind me, go around and do the same thing up ahead. Honestly, I hope bad things happen to them (without any innocent lives impacted). The more times these idiots take themselves out, the safer we all become.

[@jeffreybaker1725]

People are getting stupider every day. But insects and animals are getting smarter- go figure.

[@jamminwrenches860]

Yes and we all see a certain group of people have gone "wildin out". Doing doughnuts in intersections and general chaos.

[@FordHoard]

@@jamminwrenches860 Ayo mayne, das waciss mayne.

[@wintersprite]

I have driving anxiety so while I have my license, I rarely drive and am not a strong driver. Anytime I see things like this, it just gets added to the reasons why I hate and avoid driving.

[@Syncopia]

Come drive in Europe, everyone drives on razor thin margins and yet we will have less accidents per 100,000 people.

[@mainchannel1839]

I believe this was a suicide, car went under rail, turned toward train and stopped, very suspicious

[@troyjollimore4100]

Yeah. *Smashes through gate* “What the…?” *Turns and stops* “Oh…Shi…” *IMPACT*

[@t.s.9656]

The number one way not to get hit by a train is to not get in front of it. The nice thing is is that they're real easy to see cause they're really big.

[@westcoastbred7745]

And loud

[@Froggyman145]

You can't fix stupid, but I can. ~The Grim Reaper

[@richardsmith4187]

We all learned in school when you approach a RR crossing " STOP, LOOK & LISTEN " its rather obvious in the video footage that the driver was apparently not paying attention or was distracted by a cell phone and drove right through the downed crossing gate. BOOM ......... Guess they will not make that mistake again. It is not the fault of the trains including Brightline, and rest solely on the drivers who fail to stop or go around downed gates to save a few moments. The average passenger train has about 20-30 seconds from the time the lights and gates activate until the train reaches the crossing. It takes usually less that one minute for the train to pass and still drivers in south Florida can't seem to understand trains run on rails and can't stop on a dime. When will the stupidity stop, is this natures way of weeding out stupid people ?????????

[@culcune]

That is one positive thing. I watch several dashcam accident channels here on KZbin, and I am shocked by all the blatant red light running. These drivers taking themselves out are NEVER going to have the opportunity to kill, maim, or injure innocent drivers by blowing through red lights at intersections.

[@davidsmith3736]

In New Zealand a Red Stop light means keep going.

[@Pintexx]

This is natural selection at work. Anyone who crosses in front of a train shouldn’t be driving at all. There’s no excuse, there more warning signs at every train crossing than your avg intersection. Break the law, pay the ultimate price. 🤦‍♂️

[@thomasbrower305]

The train ALWAYS wins. What does Saint Peter say to such people? My heart goes out to that poor engineer and his nightmares.

[@tallflguy]

Who is Saint Peter?

[@thomasbrower305]

Saint Peter, for those who believe, is the gatekeeper of heaven who decides who gets in, or goes the other direction.

[@Iconoclasher]

It's terrible these beautiful passenger locomotives are getting their paint scratched. Trouble is they're built kinda light. Maybe they need resurrect some old locomotives from museums and put them back into service. Trust me, if you get hit by a 1954 Fairbanks-Morse TrainMaster cruising at 80 mph, there will be no mess to clean up and certainly no reason to stop and inconvenience the passengers! 😊👍

[@rogersamaniego7392]

This person was probably busy texting instead focusing on the road!

[@bettysmith4527]

Welp, they won't do it again!

[@Highgear145]

Oh well.....sometimes people get unlucky

[@thomream1888]

I guess all those silly lights and dingdong bells were put there just to annoy the homeless bums, huh? Ya just can't fix stupid, but Mother Nature sure can.

[@PhrontDoor]

Situations like these are often not merely mostly victimless incidents, but boons for society. We are now less one moronic and entitled half-wit. We have only to pity the driver of the train.

[@culcune]

I watch several dashcam accident channels, and it seems like there is an epidemic of red-light blowing idiots striking innocent drivers who have the green light. This will ensure that this driver will not get that opportunity to kill a fellow driver, thank goodness!

[@shelbyng8703]

I'm trying hard to not say it, but... GOOD RIDDANCE! 😖😓

[@rickdee67]

If only there was a way drivers could know if a train was coming! 🤦Florida drivers seem intent on racing everywhere? If the sun is in your eyes , slow down maybe? NAH

[@damienomen669]

This was a problem person that solved their own problem, good riddance. Stand by for your Darwin Award.

[@am74343]

Have Floridians never seen trains before?!?! It seems as though 90% of cars getting hit by trains happens in Florida. What the hell is going on in that State?!?!

[@ur22much2]

One of the things that bothers me about reporting car/ train accidents they always sound like they are blaming the Train when it is the auto drivers at fault. The train can't swerve to avoid an accident when cars are on the tracks, and stupid, selfish people are allowed to drive. Trick question on drivers test, #I. How do you feel about obeying the laws of the road, Multiple choice. A. Obey. B. Ambivalent C. Can live without them D. No one is going to tell me how to drive my own fucking car.

[@Blaze6432]

We really need to start having brutal suspensions on licenses for people who fail to stop at a railroad crossing.

[@Eric-qd1ot]

B, C and D seem to apply to the last driver…

[@picomanbungace4035]

@@Blaze6432 Death seems to be a pretty indefinite suspension so we kind of already do.

[@arnoldhenry]

A lot of people would pick D.

[@kens.3729]

Do Residents and/or Visitors down in Florida realize what an Actual Train Crossing looks like and the Consequences of NOT knowing this ? 🤪👎

[@persephoneblack888]

I feel bad for the train conductor, knowing that he couldn't stop and bracing for the impact. He now has to live with that person's death on his mind.

[@williamanderson2447]

I wouldn't have a second thought about it. An idiot has been removed from the gene pool. Nowhere near enough, but it's a start.

[@EKA201-j7f]

I hope he doesn't feel guilty about it. There was Nothing he could have done to prevent the crash.

[@creggf4685]

Brother worked for b&o, Chessie, into csx and talked about Garrett to Chicago when he worked road..and people putting washing machines , things on track...and hit cars like this 4 times I believe he said. One that bothers him the most is the family and remembers to this day is seeing in his mind the kids faces in back seat and that look of fear... yeah...it affects the crew.

[@dchawk81]

@@creggf4685 For me, being bothered or not would be situationally dependent. Feel bad for the kids, maybe that particular driver if it was a breakdown or whatever, but not this yahoo in the VW who blatantly plowed through the gate.

[@Nuhuh130]

There’s no need for more signs. You just never run through a gate! A post, a sign, etc.

[@phillipkalaveras1725]

From 0:38 to 0:39 the car traveled 4 car lengths, from 0:39 to 0:40 (impact) the car traveled 2 car lengths. The car breaks perfectly for the side impact. I'm calling it a suicide

[@JudgmentCollectionTraining]

The driver ran through the working train crossing arm. Actually moved the arm up with the top of the car. KARMA. I am glad one more idiot is never going to put another life in jeopardy. Good riddance driver that doesn't care if they could have killed an innocent.

[@culcune]

I watch a few of the dashcam accident videos, and there seems to be a nationwide epidemic of people driving along simply blowing red lights and piling into the side of (sometimes several) innocent victim drivers who have the green. At least we know with 100% certainty this idiot won't be seen blowing a red light into the side of innocent drivers.

[@trevor6607]

@@culcune The idiot nurse in Cali comes to mind.

[@verushkacortes4]

If u DON'T know the FACTS Do not Insult the driver! Karma? Remember those words since KARMA comes around in many ways...

[@culcune]

@@verushkacortes4 tell us the facts, please. Why did this driver blow through the DOWNED gates while a train was barrelling towards the crossing?

[@prmath]

Intersection is NOT dangerous‼️ People are stupid…….

[@Olivia-co8pg]

When I was a child (I am in my 8th decade now), I was often sent to stay with relatives (Yates and Ivey families) in Kissimmee. I loved it. My relatives had citrus groves and grew beef. I thought the Brahma-type bulls were the sweetest things in the world! Silver Spurs Rodeo started somewhere about that time, but I always had to take a nap if I went with my cousins--the stretches we spent at the grounds were just too long for me. People still rode into town on horses at that time, and, in Kissimmee, there were plenty of hitching posts on Vine and on Main. I cannot recall the train ever causing problems. Something tells me it is more about drugs, high-decibel "music," and sorry attitudes today.

[@pattistitt1903]

Amen. The spoiled I won't wait for a train. Screaming protesters but not a train? Keep a can of soda and then while you wait play on your ☎ while choo choo goes bye bye

[@rickbullock4331]

A clear case of ignoring the signals. If it was at sunset and the sun is over powering the flashing red signals, maybe there needs to be flashing red lights in advance of the crossing too. Will they do an autopsy to find out if alcohol or drugs were involved or maybe a state of mind family issue? Who knows?

[@3SpeedHolster]

Blinded by the Sun. Look at the hard shadows...both visors are down.

[@roadking99jokerst60]

First thing in my mind was suicide. I'm sorry but it looked purposeful. Sad situation either way.

[@tonythedonluciano]

Careless people cause grief to all of those they encounter. 🙄

[@geisaune793]

The problem isn’t that it might be a dangerous intersection. The gates were down, the bells were ringing, and the train was blaring it’s horn as every train is required to do when it crosses a street. The problem is simply a stupid driver that knowingly breaks the law by driving through the gate and thinks they can outrun a goddamn train. I really have no sympathy.

[@MrSlim1959]

A good solution was to not use your cell phone while driving.

[@boataxe4605]

Yes, because cars were never hit by train’s before the invention of the cell phone.

[@MrSlim1959]

@@boataxe4605 Cars were always hit by trains but not as much as in this day and age.

[@jamesfromacct]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, should’ve stopped at the crossing.

[@beththompson2188]

It’s interesting what she said about the sun. It be in peoples eyes at that point. However, aren’t there bells that go off when the gates are coming down? You would think the people would hear it.

[@sickoftheshit]

Maybe they're "thumpin and bumpi n" and couldn't even hear their windows rattling. I see/hear them doing this where we live.

[@tempestsquall5882]

lots of ppl these days think they're so cool blowing out their speakers listening to trash, probably could of been it too

[@OverlordZeroULTIMA]

Even here in Texas, we get those kinds of people. And of course, the ones who had to keep the neighborhood awake during the middle of the night just revving obnoxiously loud engines of their brand new fancy car...

[@Porsche996driver]

The sun’s glare makes it hard to update Facebook while you’re driving.

[@simonbrown7501]

The drivers sun shade is down so the woman they interviewed might have a point about the glare. Also the driver hit the gate so it appears they never saw they were down until it was too late. Probably other factors involved like being distracted or texting. Still pretty scary video to watch

[@knightu1642]

No way that she missed all the blinking red lights and blaring alarms and the big Train Track signs on the roadway even if she didn't see the Red and White crossing gates that were down! If you had never driven that road before and you saw those train track road markings, wouldn't you think to slow down because the sun glare is strong? Always assume there is a train coming.

[@dgpatter]

You’re being very kind to the driver, but if she was too blinded to see a barrier arm in front of her, she shouldn’t have been driving forward at all.

[@slowerthansound]

Low sun is a factor involved in many accidents.

[@debprasadchoudhury1749]

Too little of visuals and too much of talking and the subtitles obstructing whatever visuals are left. Could as well been an audio clip.

[@armandoperez7967]

Driver of the car was 💯 % at fault! Case closed!

[@Dr_KW]

10 points to the train that was a perfect hit

[@GirlSproket]

Alarms, lights, and gates...... Some people STILL choose stupidity. This is definitely not a "sun in the eyes" moment. My condolences to the engineer and passengers of the train.

[@MrOlgrumpy]

Maybe she mean't they had been in the sun too long

[@mikecagle984]

Having a hard time figuring out what is "hard to watch" about this video. It shows nothing, but a train hitting a car, which doesnt show much of that. Not being morbid, but please quit being so overly politically sensitive with your news stories, it is stupid and makes me distrust your other stories.

[@foxkill7]

Girl has a valid point!👍🏾👍🏾

[@kimward5746]

If the sun makes it hard to see, you slow down. Geez, blame the train, blame the gate, blame the sun.... I blame the idiots.

[@flamdango99]

Now the poor train driver has to live with this because someone chose to ignore the rail crossing

[@DistanceNsVeterans]

And now sun Rail has to Replace or fix parts On the Charger locomotive or a F59PHI locomotive

[@sirblack1619]

How much more warning can you give that a train is approaching or that theres a grade crossing there? The city spends millions on grade crossing warning devices like what is at this particular crossing. 🤦‍♂️

[@paxvictori2385]

All roads (in flordia) lead to an oncoming train

[@proudveteran4696]

Wear the mask correctly new yorker

[@riznob10000]

I have no sympathy. All you have to do to avoid getting hit by a train is not be in a 6x6 foot space when the train comes. This is natural selection at work.

[@margaretdimick2096]

If the gates are down, they're down for a reason. Usually a train is sounding it's horn as it approaches a crossing. They do where I live. There's no way the car diver didn't know a train was coming.

[@emmanueljames8404]

They don't put crossing gates with bells and lights just to make the railroad track look cool...there's a reason why they're there!!

[@maxfowler2544]

Hard to watch bc the driver was so incompetent

[@mainchannel1839]

This was a suicide i think

[@randomamerican471]

Lights flashing, gate down, train horn blaring and can be heard for miles. Some people are going to earn that Darwin award. No matter what you do to try and prevent it. But I also couldn't help but notice the suicide prevention sign of things to come @1:00

[@dillangeiser4820]

The girl with the sunlight idea might be onto something

[@CatsInHats-S.CrouchingTiger]

Usually, when the guard rail goes down, there’s a bell ringing and some have lights flashing. They will flash before the arm goes down.

[@dillangeiser4820]

@@CatsInHats-S.CrouchingTiger idk it might have something to do with it like she was saying

[@artistjoh]

The way that driver went straight through the gate suggests either drunk driver, or distracted on phone.

[@song1861]

Hopefully the passengers was alright..

[@user-zp3oz7op6w]

Only the driver in the car and the driver was killed.

[@Danny451]

Song, it's obvious you didn't listen to the video.

[@BMarie774]

You can’t actually tell how far trains are. People think “I have plenty of time!” Not realizing the train will be on the before they can get his,way across.

[@2000sborton]

Most of the posters here are ignoring that woman's wise observation. I know that at certain times of the year and at particular times of the day there are some streets here in Vancouver where I am completely blinded by the sun shining straight at me. It's kind of luck of the draw that I haven't hit anything. Because if there was something in front of me I would have plowed right through it. It's not always human error folks, sometimes there are other factors to consider.

[@jennv2948]

Everyone talking about the driver being careless… seems like suicide to me. The person drove out right in front of that train. There would have been zero hope of beating it. I have a hard time believing it was an accident.

[@googleinvestigations233]

Unfortunately that’s what you get when the security gates are down and they’re telling you to stop do not cross when you do so you put your own life at risk. Life is all about choices and individual is given a choice to make choices on a daily basis the choices one makes on a daily basis will only rectify your life in the end!….🙏

[@mainchannel1839]

This was most likely a suicide, car went under gate turned towards train and stopped

[@randallbrink3143]

I’m just trying to figure out why the woman they interviewed had a mask on in Florida

[@naturalcapacity]

People work 16 hour shifts and their driving awareness is not 100%, which will lead to a higher potential of car accidents.

[@sellahphayne4311]

Driver was aware enough to drive around the gate.

[@gop4usa12]

Whatever you do, don't put the blame on the idiot that drove past the RR gate. Blame it on the sun or blame it on the government for not posting enough signs.

[@bradford2764]

I very much appreciate the employees critical thinking… sun glair could be a contributing factor.

[@Mikewee777]

It is always nice to hear good ideas from intelligent bystanders .

[@bobhope3716]

No, The problem is people don't want to follow the rules. That driver saw the gate was down but decided to ignore the fact.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

I stop and look both ways on tracks then go around the gates.

[@philjaegersmith4858]

If the crossing has gate arms, then it is illegal to go around them. At most crossing they come down when the train is about 20 seconds away.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

@@philjaegersmith4858 I drive fast.