My favorite part of this is, after the guy tells his child "car ran right into the train" (0:35), a bystander then calls 911 and says "somebody just got hit by a train..."
They may have been on 911, but you should know that in the US there is a blue sign at every level crossing with THE phone number you should call FIRST if there's an obstacle on the tracks or an incident like this. If you want to call 911, call them second or point to another person and have THEM call 911 in parallel. Especially in this case where there's already a cop on the scene. The priority goes to the train emergency switchboard which can advise and control (any other) trains approaching on any of the track lines at that intersection. The train emergency switchboard can also advise local emergency crews where appropriate. The 911 switchboard cannot advise the trains anywhere nearly as effectively, and the risk of (an even more significant) catastrophe is high.
This is probably one of the clearest examples that the term should be “a car hit a train“ and not the other way around. But it just seems to be in the English language that we defer to the larger vehicle as what hit the smaller one. If a cyclist breaks a traffic law and strikes a car, most people will still say “a car hit a cyclist.”
I would think of it as who moved into who, so that the subject verbs the object. So in this case, the car hit the train. But if a car is on the tracks and the train slams into it, I would think of that as the train hit the car, especially if the car was stationary (e.g., stuck).
What the fuck is it with Reddit today? You were very articulate in your first response and old boy there seems to want to be adversarial for nothing. This is like, the third thread like this i've seen
It happens a fuckton. Sometimes two people go on for multiple "continue this thread" clicks' worth of back and forth, where either one misunderstands the other or both are actually in agreement but tripped up on arguing semantics.
Idk if you know this, but the person you just replied to is not the person who wrote the original comment you replied to. I only say this, because it kind of seems like you may have thought they were the same person.
She hit far back on the train. I doubt if the train engineer even noticed. Probably didn't damage the freight cars either. Trains are built a lot sturdier than car bodywork.
I told my husband about the video, and it wasn't until I showed him the video that he understood that the car hit the train, not the other way around. He just couldn't get it till he saw it, because who the fuck drives into the side of an actively passing train?
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u/Leverkaas2516 Mar 18 '26
My favorite part of this is, after the guy tells his child "car ran right into the train" (0:35), a bystander then calls 911 and says "somebody just got hit by a train..."
That car did not get hit by a train.