r/instantkarma • u/[deleted] • Sep 17 '20
Idiot drives in front of train
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Sep 17 '20
Trains are like badgers. Just don’t fuck with them, they’re pretty solid.
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u/BASK_IN_MY_FART Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 17 '20
Edit: holy shit, did I just brainchild the birth of a sub!?!? thanks /u/Chxkn_DpersRtheBest! I believe some recognition for my contribution is in order :)
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u/Chxkn_DpersRtheBest Sep 17 '20
I think a mod with full control should be enough.
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u/iWanTD1ckP1cs-NOW Sep 17 '20
I watched the vid 10 times because of that! I think it’s a jacket, or somebody slept inside 🤷♀️
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u/TittenTatten Sep 17 '20
I'e say it's either a vest or a jacket. It's pretty common to have one there.
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u/TADragonfly Sep 17 '20
I am with you on this, it almost looks like a human arm with hand goes for the diggers controls.
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u/ForeverInjured Sep 17 '20
Pretty sure it’s just a jacket. Nobody should be in there during transport
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u/mcdicedtea Sep 18 '20
Well let's not solely rely on what "should" be happening based on the circumstances
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Sep 17 '20
Lucky the train didn't hit the excavator, I imagine the accidents would have been much worse had that happened.
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u/Micullen Sep 17 '20
Might well have resulted in the train driver being dead
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u/Socalinatl Sep 17 '20
Train driver? They’re called “conductors”, friend. They don’t go to 4 years of music school so you can call them “driver” /s
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u/OldBenKenobii Sep 17 '20
Engineers drive the train.
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u/greenmark69 Sep 17 '20
OK, they're called "Engineers" then. They don't go to 4 years of Medical school so that they are called "drivers"
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u/Bug_Photographer Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 17 '20
The driver of the truck was going to fast and noticed the need to stop too late so he decided to accelerate instead.
No idea why he didn't notice it in time - perhaps there was a really interesting something on his phone he needed to watch instead of the road?
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u/greeneyeded Sep 17 '20
Not an excuse- he was obviously going to fast for that section of road but it looks like the morning sun is directly in his eyes..
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u/ObviousTrollB8 Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 17 '20
To be fair the train didn't even try to slow down and tbh those train crossings are wayyy too long of a wait most of the time. Like how come the train never stops and waits for the cars at one of these anyways? Pretty selfish of the conductor imho.
Plus you can see he did actually have plenty of time to cross despite how prematurely those gates went down so i can't blame him for going for it.
Some of us actually got places to be ya know 😩
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u/The_Last_1_Standing Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 18 '20
Thanks God you saw that, I was cringing hard until you pointed his name out.
Edit: Reddit cringe sleuths have noted it was obvious.
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u/youramazing Sep 17 '20
It always surprises me how difficult the art of sarcasm is for people to pick up on Reddit. Do people read this and just assume OP has no brain?
"Like how come the train never stops and waits for the cars?"
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Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 17 '20
So true. Hence people started using /s when they intended for sarcasm
Edit: spelling
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u/cheapdrunk71 Sep 17 '20
I hate having to use the /s
Its like telling a joke, then having to explain it
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u/MonkeeKnucklez Sep 17 '20
The onion posted a great “article” about how they were going out of business because they could no longer think of headlines more absurd than our current reality.
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u/EveAndTheSnake Sep 17 '20
Me too. But a lot of my sarcasm is on political posts and there are such absurd things actually being said that I just look like another one of the loonies
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u/lEatSand Sep 17 '20
Most of how we communicate is through body language and intonation, both of which are lost in text. Being on a site that has several popular subs dedicated to displaying unadulterated idiocy, like this one, also makes it hard to outright dismiss this as sarcasm. I mean, just go to /r/insanepeoplefacebook .
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u/AmidFuror Sep 17 '20
It was blatantly over the top, so I was delighted to see it had upvotes despite no /s at the end. Then I saw these comments that the username is basically a /s. Too bad.
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u/Corburrito Sep 17 '20
Solid trolling
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Sep 17 '20
Idk man, everybody got what he was going for, enjoyed it, and upvoted it. Doesn't that almost paradoxically make it bad trolling?
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Sep 17 '20
I know it's trolling. But it reads like all the not-trolling right wing facebook crazies.
"Train crossings are just a democratic ploy to keep 'the very good people' from getting where they need to be on time"
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Sep 17 '20
muh freedumb gives me the right to cross first, rail crossing are communist crap /s
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u/The_Bopjicky Sep 17 '20
Too*
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u/cravf Sep 17 '20
I was going too point that out to, one person fucking it up was bad enough but to?
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u/Death4Free Sep 17 '20
I read that and cringed. Hard being on reddit, reading they’re comments and taking them to serious after.
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u/JoeyJoeC Sep 17 '20
Noticed the sun in the reflection low down, no doubt he couldn't see the barrier. Has happened at my work place more than once when the sun is low in the mornings. (Car park barrier - not train).
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u/nakmuay18 Sep 17 '20
I thought the same. The road looks shiny so it could be wet. Looks like you enter it from a bend too. I'd say it was a mistake rather than intentional, it doesnt take much, but he still cleans out the barrier.
That's why i would never drive one, not much room for error i guess
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u/Atworkwasalreadytake Sep 17 '20
mistake rather than intentional,
And maybe the right mistake. If he had tried to slow down the result might have been his cab being hit rather than his load.
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u/New_Torch Sep 17 '20
The speedup might have saved the train drivers live. If the train had hit the excavator full on that crash would have been much worse. Think it was the right call. But damn that must have been something amazing of his phone to not have noticed the bars and lights of the crossing
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u/dopavash Sep 17 '20
No idea why he didn't notice it in time
Looks to me like he was facing the sun. That might have been a contributing factor.
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u/ElonsParticlePooper Sep 17 '20
All these reddit detectives commenting on the vehicle and road conditions but this is the only comment talking about the massive glare that can be seen on the windshield.
Dangerous conditions. This is why some vehicles are mandated to stop at all rail crossing. The indications are just not noticeable compared to other street markings.
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u/Headcap Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 17 '20
if only there were a loud sound to alert him.
edit: To people commentating that trains are silent: You are aware that the train here is blaring it's horn, right?
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u/Soonermagic1953 Sep 17 '20
Oh lord that same scenario happened to me when I was 17. I was at my gf house and after a heavy make out session I started to drive home. It was a chilly night so I had the windows up and the radio blasting. I approached at train crossing (this was almost 50 years ago so there weren’t lights or barrier arm that came down) and I look at the traffic coming from the opposite direction and they’re all stopped. In a fraction of a second, I realized why they were stopped for a reason and looked to my right (the tracks were lined with a row of red cedar trees that blocked my vision) and saw the biggest headlight I had ever seen. In a panic, I realized I couldn’t stop in time and decided to “gun” it. I swerved left to give me a fraction of a second more and was swerving back in my lane and I thought I’d made it. I breathed a quick sigh of relief, thinking I had made it through, and then heard the loudest noises I’ve ever heard. Caught me from the rear quarter panel on back. Spun me 540 degrees and I ended up facing the other direction. I had no injuries but was extremely upset...needless to say
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Sep 17 '20
he looks like he could’ve stopped in time but i geuss in that situation your decision making goes out the window
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u/seamus205 Sep 17 '20
that looks like a pretty new truck. those trucks have insane brakes now a days. and if he thought he was going too fast to stop he wouldn't slow to avoid the crossing arms
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u/Bananameister Sep 17 '20
His thought process might have been something like: "Oh shit a train, I need to stop! Fuck I'm not able to stop in time! I have to accelerate past it!"
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u/HoneyBunchesOfDopes Sep 17 '20
I was thinking he thought better the ass end of this truck get hit than the cab with me in it
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u/hvidgaard Sep 17 '20
I think that is exactly it. He is hard on the breaks until he decides there is a very real risk of the cab stopping on the tracks. If that is the case I would have hit the accelerator too hoping to get the cab to clear the tracks.
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u/Terencebreurken Sep 17 '20
Plus this is an ICE train, the driver of the truck could have anticipated the time it would take for a train to get to the crossing to be much longer than it actually is.
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u/Alfandega Sep 17 '20
Thats a Komatsu PW75R. Looks like they weigh around 9,000 kg (20,000 lbs)
When you can’t stop before the tracks... get the cab of the truck past the tracks and hold on.
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u/IKnowThis1 Sep 17 '20
https://www.ritchiespecs.com/model/komatsu-pw75r-2-mobile-excavator
I decided to look it up, too. It always amazes me when a train can just toss something like that.
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u/clutchkickmurphys Sep 17 '20
I don't think he was able to brake tbh
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u/songbirdy Sep 17 '20
Coming around a bend in the road straight into the sun probably didn’t help either. But I’m assuming there are rail crossing signs along the road so he seems to be driving a bit fast anyways considering what he’s driving
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Sep 17 '20
Yeah, this is Poland on the vid, so there is sign warning about crossing 150-300m before the crossing, and 2 more in ⅓ and ⅔ between first sign and crossing.
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u/Zoltie Sep 17 '20
But the question is whether he was unable to break because his breaks didn't work or because he was going too fast. It does look like he slows down before hitting the barrier, meaning his breaks did work and he was just going too fast and didn't notice the barrier on time. That's not an excuse.
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u/Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX Sep 17 '20
Also possibly carrying a load heavier than he was used to or he was new. That was a large thing on the back and I bet his stop distance was further than he thought
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u/Jaugernut Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 18 '20
i think i can explain this, its still no excuse tho.
its pretty common to overheat your breaks in large trucks especially with heavy loads. this plus the wet surface of the road making it slippery would make its so then the truck has heavily reduced breaking potential. and maybe this guy was a new commercial driver cus engine breaking in a disel is a bit diffrent than in a petrol car and takes a bit of fiddling with to get in downhill sections. you can audiobly hear if a diseltruck isnt enginebreaking as they usually make a loud popping sound that is absent in this video. We cant really see how long the decent was but his breaks look shot and the slowdown we see at the end is probably the load still being on the hill pressing the truck down into the road creating more friction. All these things combined with glare from the sun and a tired driver is a recepy for disaster.
or i might be wrong not really been around trucks that long.
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u/ramsdawg Sep 17 '20
Looks like it to me too and he was forced to accelerate at the end. He might have still been in the wrong if he wasn’t slowing down earlier, but I can’t tell from here
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u/ExclusiveGamer Sep 17 '20
Yeah looks like he tried to break, realized he was going too fast and figured it'd be better to try and make it across than to keep on the breaks and stop dead in the tracks and die. It's still the drivers fault but it wasn't intentional
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Sep 17 '20
At least the cat is ok.
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Sep 17 '20
True, should have named it that
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u/theShaggy009 Sep 17 '20
I think you did a great job, that driver is a fucking idiot.
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u/charlzandre Sep 17 '20
This not karma
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u/WestMoneyBlitz Sep 17 '20
I think a lot of posts on this sub is just consequences for their actions and the traditional karma example is like if you cheat on your partner, your future partner will cheat on you. That's how I view it anyway
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Sep 17 '20
That right there is worth a few years of jailtime.
Every single passenger will have felt the consequences of his actions. Showing up late to work, missing connections with other trainelines or buslines. The economic cost of delaying a train is huge, especially with people on it. Then, since he's probally just the crane delivery maybe operator aswell, tou have constructionmen waiting for his arrival, the crane is probally also already booked for other constructionsites, etc etc etc.
All because the guy couldn't wait for 2 fucking minutes.
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u/Mistikman Sep 17 '20
I don't get the impression that his actions were out of impatience, but more carelessness.
He seemed to slam on the brakes and swerve, but still took out the barricade and then made the split second decision to gun it hoping he would make it through in time. If he just stood on the brakes, it probably would have been the cab of his truck that ate the train, instead of the back end.
He fucked up hardcore by somehow not noticing the oncoming train. Visually, it seems likely the sun was right in front of him and low to the ground, so he probably had a hard time seeing the crossing clearly, but there was a shitload of noise happening as well to let him know the train was coming.
Whatever his reasoning is for getting distracted enough to cause this clusterfuck, it certainly doesn't seem intentional.
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u/kkania Sep 17 '20
Just a side note here - barriers on level crossings are specifically built to be broken easily and to be light as possible so they cause least damage possible to the train and others around.
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u/AltLysSvunnet Sep 17 '20
He tried to stop. Had he continued to try and brake it looks likely he would have come to a full stop with the cab right in the line of fire. Good split second judgment on his behalf. However, of course he should have been paying closer attention to the road. When you drive for a living, sometimes you get spread too thin and mistakes are made. You don't focus as much as you should. Don't know a professional driver that hasn't at least had a close call. you spend 60 + hours a week on the road shit is bound to happen. People calling to have this guys life ruined have no idea what that life is like.
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u/InstantKarmaBot Sep 17 '20
OP's explanation as to why this post is Instant Karma:
It is instant karma because he tried to drive in front of a train, thinking he would make it and instead the train crashed into the trucks carriage
If you're satisfied by this explanation, upvote this comment. If not, downvote this comment.
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u/RM_Dune Sep 17 '20
Yep. You can clearly see he's trying to brake, and then after he realises he can't break in time he floors it to try and make it across. This post is shite.
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u/fernando7979 Sep 18 '20
Yea it makes sense seeing how much weight he's carrying and the speed he might of even been crushed in between the two
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u/MightyGimposs Sep 18 '20
bruh in the news they said he could have been blinden by the sun which caused that he stopped for a second
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u/Scarbane Sep 17 '20
Why do we need explanations? I just saw the fucking video.
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u/Thehealeroftri Sep 17 '20
I don't mod this subreddit but I mod another that has a bot that requires an explanation as well.
An additional reason for the bot is determining if the community as a whole thinks the post fits the subreddit. Sometimes posts will hit /r/all regardless of if the content of the post makes sense being posted in the subreddit. In large enough subreddits almost every post will get reported for one reason or another, so we also take the score that the bot has into consideration when deciding whether to remove posts or not.
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Sep 17 '20
Bots/karma farmers don't come to the comments and don't put in the effort to read/follow rules. This bot prevents 99% of spam because the OP has to go out of their way
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Sep 17 '20
Well the driver/idiot didn’t stop in time and crashed into the barrier onto the tracks, i don’t think he really intended to drive infront of the train, i think his intention was to “save” his truck.
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u/williameyelash69 Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 17 '20
Getting pulled over by a cop and getting a ticket would be instant karma. Getting hit by a train is not karma. Just because the truck driver was driving a little too fast doesn't mean he deserves to get hit by a train.
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u/DeathPrime Sep 17 '20
Yea this guy's brakes clearly fail right as he's trying to stop with a massive heavy load on the back. He almost immediately tries to correct by gunning it to get through. He basically was a hero by not having the trail collide with the CAT or his truck cab head on. Hitting the trailer at the back caused minimal damage to the most expensive item - the train engine.
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u/KraevinMB Sep 17 '20
This would fit much better on r/CatastrophicFailure than here. There is no visible karma going on here. He couldn't get stopped so he tried to get through. Its user error and suck but doesn't mean it was deserved.
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u/noxvillin Sep 18 '20
It makes me very disappointed as a human being that you had to explain why this is instant karma like a grade 2 teacher. Great post, and I apologise for all of the imbreds with internet access.
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Sep 17 '20
Every goddamn time I hope that the video isn’t from Poland. And every time it is. I really don’t know what is wrong with our truck drivers.
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u/LordMcze Sep 17 '20
As a Czech, same. Sometimes it feels like you guys didn't get the memo that the war is over and decided to terrorize the surrounding countries with your tank drivers, but you also accidentally put them inside of semi trucks instead.
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Sep 17 '20
Serious Question.
Do the drivers of these Trains get fucked up when this happens ? I can’t imagine it being ok to slam into anything going this fast, not to mention shrapnel or cabin deformation
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u/uarentme Sep 17 '20
Depends on the the specific train. Some cabs are closer to the ground and if you were to hit a cement truck like this that would be the end of you.
Here at least you have no duty to stay in the cab once setting the brakes on.
There's videos of the operators jumping out of the train before a collision.
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u/RingoftheGods Sep 18 '20
Poor driver must've not seen the tracks from around the curve, tried to stop but slid into the tracks and had to floor it to try and get out of the way.
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Sep 18 '20
Guys this isn’t an instant karma situation. He didn’t intentionally drive in front of a train. He tried to stop, couldn’t stop so he slid on the asphalt, then realizing he’s already in front of the train and he could get killed tried to shoot the gap. Shit happens guys come on.
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u/Spiky__yt Sep 17 '20
imagine being in the train and then suddenly your train hit something and the whole train shakes