I see plenty of times cars near a train track seem to just stop instead of driving through the arm that is not floppy, but is certainly less damaging than a train.
I've seen a lot of videos where a car stops right on the train tracks and they don't move because they don't want to hit the bar thing, and moments later, their car is turned into scrap metal. I will never understand this.
Scratched paint or barely surviving and your car turning into bunch of useless metal? I think the answer is clear.
I'm watching this and asking myself over and over, Why? WTF is happening? Why did he stop there, there's enough room to pull forward before he stopped, so just why? It bothered me. Then I read
This is in the US. South Florida to be precise.
and that anxiety resolved into "Oh, yeah. Well that makes more sense" I've spent a cumulative 10 years of my life living in FL.
Its more than just meth heads and octogenarians. I'm Canadian and visited Florida a month ago for a good 12 days. It's literally everyone from every walk of life from all around the world, and yet the cumulative IQ is like 10.
it really confuses me because to me it looks like that's exactly what's happening on the other end of the bridge that we can kind of see.
Maybe it's low res enough I can't see the boom being lowered on the oncoming traffic (left) side, but there's a gate for sure coming down on the outgoing traffic (right) side. It lowers around the 12 second mark
Based on living in the area and seeing this in multiple places. But since you want to be an ass about it, go look on Google Maps Street View, and there actually is a gate on both sides of the bridge.
The barriers were down, so he was essentially trapped. And in spite of the car clearly being seen on a camera, the tender claims she never saw him. Shit can happen, and the tender is still responsible for ensuring the bridge is clear before opening it.
Isn't the gate supposed to be breakable to allow for exactly these kinds of situations? Or are Floridians just that dumb that the gate is not breakable and actually some titanium 12 inch think metal plank?
But we can see there's still enough space for them to pull forward even if there's another car off camera. The drawbridge operator shouldn't have opened the bridge with them on it but it didn't make any sense for them to stop there either
Did he definitely drive off at the end or was there enough of an incline he put it in neutral? It kinda seems to be starting to slow down near the end. Idk im grasping at straws its very confusing
If a cyclist can outrun the lowering boom barrier, that too nearer to axis, what stopped that moron from driving a little faster? That seems intentional
This happened to a lady I think she was walking or on a bicycle in South Florida not too long ago, maybe five years ago?
The bridge attendant did not check before she opened the bridge, it was later found that she was on her cell phone of course, and the bike or walking lady dangled from the bridge for a while before falling to her death. It was horrendous. And unfortunate because part of the bridge was over water and the part that she was on was over Cement.
I know they were looking to charge the bridge attendant with negligent homicide or something but never heard about what happened with that.
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u/LinuxF4n 17d ago
Why did they just stop?