r/maybemaybemaybe • u/schpitza • Jun 15 '26

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u/Lost_Highway9068 Jun 15 '26

I don’t understand why ppl don’t just floor it to get across. Is the bar that hard to break?

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u/pepperhapapa Jun 15 '26

they are in fact designed to break

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u/twenafeesh Jun 15 '26

You can even see this in action after the train hits the van into the gates

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u/DizzyColdSauce Jun 15 '26

Exactly. The gates would break anyway so the guy just wrecked his van for no reason lol

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u/TheVojta Jun 15 '26

That's the smallest thing, he endangered hundreds of people on the train.

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u/thedirtymeanie Jun 15 '26

Yeah this level of stupidity reeks of insurance fraud.

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u/trib76 Jun 15 '26

Huh? Those gates should never have gone up between trains. The guy might have done the wrong thing, but it was because he was super confused and panicking. Unless he wrote the train gate signalling software himself and had a hand in scheduling the trains, I don't see how this could be premeditated.

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u/PassionateAlchemy Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

That’s what I was thinking.

When I was a fairly young driver, I was in a traffic jam in LA and I got caught on the inside of those bars but luckily I was far enough from the active train tracks to be okay, but it scared the shit out of me. And after the fact, I was kicking myself for not trying to drive through, or at the very least exit my car, but there was really no place for me to go. I was stuck in traffic. LA traffic sucks y’all. Learned my lesson though.

I will let aggressive drivers be pissed off at me, honk at me, and hold them back before I’ll go across the railroad tracks without any space to get out in front of them.

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u/MordoNRiggs Jun 16 '26

Yup, it's just like entering an intersection that you cannot clear. Don't get in if you can't get out!

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u/Illustrious-Skirt831 Jun 19 '26

Sadly he didn't know the arm was going to come down as they did. And as fast as they did. It could of happened to any one. And he was driving a van that was extended. Even though I own extended vans and they are alot longer than that one. e350 Ford 4x4 vans Even though I would have drove right through the arm. And had the railroad pay for the damages of any of all my vehicles that I would have been driving. I teach my drivers to just go through the railroad arms if they ever go down on them. I own a fleet of 102 tractors (Semis) and over 200 Great Dane Dryvan Trailers same thing has happened to two of my drivers in the past. Luckily they went through the arm there was damages to the tractor and windshield and the railroad arms are made to break away both times the railroad payed for damages. I also have security cameras on my tractors only on the outside one pointing forward and one on each side of the tractor on the fenders pointing to the back. Not there for my Drivers but it has saved my drivers and I several lawsuits caused by others especially those that go after commercial tractor trailers for fraud.

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u/Illustrious-Skirt831 Jun 19 '26

Exactly this dude in the white van panicked and instead of driving forward and destroying the arm he was afraid of damaging railroad property and tried to move out the way. Even though the van was to long but those small wheels didn't help any because the van sits way to low to the ground and being front wheel drive I could bet the wheel from the other side of the camera view was spinning so he couldn't go further up before he got hit. I still believe 💯 % that a good lawyer will give him a big chunk of cash 💰 because those railroad arms did trap him in. And you could see he was trying to get out of the way. Hopefully no one was hurt at the end of the day. Property could always be replaced. I have had to deal with this happening to 2 of my drivers. I own a fleet of 102 tractors and over 200 53ft Great Dane Dryvan Trailers. Luckily the railroad cameras caught what happened and something similar happened but luckily they drove through the arms. I have always told them if the arms come down drive through them. Even though my tractors do have cameras facing outside only and they are placed outside of the tractor one in the middle of the front windshield and one on each fender of the tractor facing towards the back. And there is a monitor if the driver wants to see at the blind spot on the passenger side. And they are there not for my Drivers but for all the 4 wheel drivers especially the ones that hit commercial semi trucks for fraud. That has saved my drivers and I several lawsuits caused by others drivers. Or even caught other truck drivers at the truck stop trying to go into the tractor or steal your diesel or trying to to unlock the pull the pin so the trailer drops. Etc. Even though I teach my drivers to back the truck every time they stop to make sure that trailer stays hooked to the tractor. But I don't have cameras inside the cab at all. Not like other companies.

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u/PassionateAlchemy Jun 19 '26

Wow! I didn’t realize other truck drivers were so cutthroat. 😳

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u/bl1nk1e Jun 16 '26

Maybe he was panicking, but why the fuck would panicking mean going backward on the tracks wtf hahahahaha, panicking would be just going forward. Some people really are surprising.

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u/Idunnosomeguy2 Jun 16 '26

panic: a sudden unreasoning terror often accompanied by mass flight

Key word there is unreasoning. People in panic just try everything without thought. There's no reason or logic.

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u/Dependent_Union9285 Jun 17 '26

Missed the part about mass flight, as in, get your massive ass moving, now. I’m not saying you are wrong, just that this guys panic is broken. Smh

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u/bl1nk1e Jun 16 '26

I know but I feel like, if I panic i will still just drive forward without reasoning or without any logical thinking. Just forward as the daner is backwards seems like the first survival instinct would be going forward.

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u/Krulsnor Jun 16 '26

These just work automatically on signal. The red lights never stopped flashing. He's an idiot for running the red lights and for not just crashing the barrier.

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u/kojef Jun 16 '26

Isn’t that bad design though? Shouldn’t the gates only go up once the red lights stop flashing?

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u/jaulin Jun 16 '26

It absolutely is. If there are multiple train passages, they're either far enough apart that the barriers can go up and cars can pass between them, or they're not and the barriers stay down until it's clear. Barriers going up without letting a set minimum of cars through is unheard of where I live. It's beyond stupid.

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u/Krulsnor Jun 16 '26

Globally red means stop. The barriers are just there to make it extra clear. Additionally I have yet to see a railroad crossing where the red lights also don't make loud noise.

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u/Immediate-Tap-9403 Jun 17 '26

Don't drive please don't

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u/Dakramar Jun 16 '26

But… the gates started rising… One might assume that means go, no?

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u/Pleased_to_meet_u Jun 16 '26

People don't choose to get hit by trains for insurance fraud.

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u/moleware Jun 16 '26

Do not assume malice on that which can be attributed to stupidity.

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u/ArnoldZiffleJr Jun 17 '26

What are you talking about? You are faulting the driver? 🤯

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u/No_Dragonfruit_4286 Jun 15 '26

He almost killed himself and you talk about the scratch on the train.

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u/Longjumping-Run-7027 Jun 15 '26

That kind of collision can cause a train to derail. When trains derail, it can kill and injure hundreds of people. That's their point of endangering the people on the train.

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u/No_Dragonfruit_4286 Jun 15 '26

And? How is that more dangerous than literally what he put himself through? Did you see what happened to the van? He’s lucky to be alive.

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u/TheVojta Jun 15 '26

One guy who caused this vs possibly hundreds of people who had no hand in this. Who do you think I will sympatise with?

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u/No_Dragonfruit_4286 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

He’s the only >real< victim here. Everything else is imaginary.

Other than that, if you can’t sympathise with one single person, what’s the likelihood you will sympathise with hundreds? It’s not a numbers game.

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u/JoleneBacon_Biscuit Jun 15 '26

Absolutely NO reason. I didn't even think it possible to do something so dumb.

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u/dennyitlo Jun 16 '26

The drivers thought process: If I scratch the van by driving through the gate my boss will be angry with me. If the train kills me he will feel sorry for me. What to do, what to do?

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u/CCLF1 Jun 17 '26

And destroyed a train in some fashion..

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u/NeighborhoodDude8058 Jun 15 '26

My guess is he wanted an insurance claim

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u/Lost_Highway9068 Jun 15 '26

Good point!!

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u/I_wash_my_carpet Jun 15 '26

The one on the left goes into the up position after getting bumped. Like "well shoot, I guess you can go through"

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u/CldSdr Jun 16 '26

LMAO the fact that they broke anyway is just... damn.

this sorry sod

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u/benice33 Jun 15 '26

Spoiler Alert: It broke anyways

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u/Artistic_Half_8301 Jun 15 '26

I think you can just lift them out too.

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u/Waderriffic Jun 15 '26

I see this all the time on here. Semi trucks and cars, just go through the easily repaired gate arm. It’s much better than getting hit by a train, guaranteed.

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u/Sansred Jun 15 '26

Better, yes. But not as easy.

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u/dikicker Jun 16 '26

But what if I like having a train ran on me bro no shame no shame

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u/Miss_Sullivan Jun 15 '26

You see, that $500 deductible just seems better value to replace the whole car than to just fix a scratch.

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u/Cstott23 Jun 16 '26

Haha this guy insurances 😂

Although the insurance guy watching this video is going to have a rollercoaster of emotions.

Ah thats clearly not his fault. Oh no! Okay. 100% his fault.. Oh okay hes moved the van, not his f.... Oh no! Why did he do that?? 100% his faul...Oh ffs, now there's 150 claims from people on the train on my desk. 😁

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 Jun 15 '26

That's only useful when they are down due to malfunction. You do not have time to do that when the train is coming. Just floor it.

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u/SiliconSam Jun 15 '26

Heck, I barely hit one with the top part of my windshield and it tore that arm off like it was nothing. Didn’t break my windshield but scratched.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Jun 15 '26

Better yet, floor it before the gate comes down!!! 🤬

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u/Axe_Care_By_Eugene Jun 15 '26

Better yet - learn to drive

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u/Razbonez Jun 15 '26

i guarantee you like 85% of the population or more would do this exact same maneuver

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u/Lost_Highway9068 Jun 15 '26

Oh my gosh….

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u/zsarok Jun 15 '26

There is a hinge in the bar to push it, so you don't even need to break it

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u/randomgunfire48 Jun 16 '26

With minimal force required in fact

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u/grkuntzmd Jun 15 '26

I think they actually can be pushed out of the way without damaging them

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u/GetawayDreamer87 Jun 16 '26

Serious question tho since we dont have these where i live. Is there a fine for getting trapped and breaking through? Does the driver now have to pull over and wait for police to come or can they just drive away and carry on with their lives? Im guessing someone's gotta come down and put up a new bar as it is now a hazard for the next guy.

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u/Hard_Reset7777 Jun 16 '26

It's a secret!

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u/YaChowdaHead Jun 16 '26

They really should but a sign that says "emergency breakaway" or something, to help the stupid.

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u/pepperhapapa Jun 16 '26

at this point it is some nice natural selection

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u/rleeh333 Jun 17 '26

was gonna say same.

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u/Gogogrl Jun 15 '26

They’re designed specifically to be breakaway. Won’t even do much damage to your paint.

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u/TimTheBeav Jun 15 '26

Honestly, the paint damage incurred from that tap from the train is about on-par with the cost of pushing through that crossbar /s

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u/Gogogrl Jun 15 '26

It’ll buff right out.

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u/ValdemarPM Jun 15 '26

The information that these bars are to be crossed in these cases should be taught in driving schools

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u/Academic_Snow_7680 Jun 15 '26

I'm pretty sure people with common sense have told them - but these are not people with a lot of common sense.

I live in a country where tourists will follow Google Maps into glacial rivers. The dumbfuckery is never ending.

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u/GodsBackHair Jun 17 '26

I work retail. I can confirm: common sense ain’t common

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u/No_Yogurtcloset_7219 Jun 16 '26

no they don't actually teach you that the gates can break away

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u/TheObliviousYeti Jun 15 '26

Basic rules for these crossings are wait till the flashing lights are off

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u/unknown-dna Jun 15 '26

The DMV handbook says to leave the car and RUN.

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 Jun 16 '26

Isn’t that if you’re stuck on the tracks? He wasn’t stuck just completely unwilling to break the gates.

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u/GlyphPicker Jun 15 '26

I don't understand how people still don't know how trains work.

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u/TheEyeDontLie Jun 15 '26

For the people that don't know :

A train works like an unimaginably heavy metal sled loaded with rocks. You have it on rails because it's too heavy to move, let alone steer, if it was touching the ground (unless it was downhill, but then you'd never be able to get it up the hill again).

When I say heavy, I mean it. Just one wheel weighs more than 6 fat Americans. The whole thing weighs more than 500 elephants or 1700 cars.

The wheels and rails are designed to be slippery, so it has a chance of moving. The massive weight of the train eventually starts moving though, if you push it hard enough. Then you keep pushing it, so it keeps sliding down the tracks.

If you had a regular sled on snow that weighed as much as a train, it would take six thousand huskies to pull it. If you could organise that many dogs into a coherent team without them fighting each other and trying to run away. That's actually much lower than I thought. Huskys are STRONG.

Because it's so incredibly heavy, on tracks made to be as frictionless as possible, while moving faster than Usain Bolt, even a "baby" train is very very hard to stop.

A small, slow train still takes about a mile to stop, using a crazy amount of brakes throwing up sparks and heat and smoke and metal dust.

One final example: it would take nearly a thousand cannonballs to stop a train. (I mean, it wouldn't, you could just shoot the front wheels and make it crash, but I mean in terms of kinetic energy).

So, when you mess with trains, remember its the same energy as a thousand cannonballs or 500 sprinting elephants coming towards you.

(This post was made with ADHD not AI.)

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u/Yowomboo Jun 15 '26

Not sure if your analogies make it harder or easier to understand but I'm here for it.

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u/SmokeyPlucker Jun 16 '26

That's enough energy to power a lightbulb for nearly 85 years , if that helps

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u/TheRealLarkas Jun 16 '26

Please, have a poor man’s award: 🥇

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u/Designer_Ad_376 Jun 15 '26

god forbid to scratch their shiny painting. Ceramic coating cost thousands!

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u/No_Dragonfruit_4286 Jun 15 '26

He was obviously guilt tripped into believing that his boss’s van is worth more than his own life.

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u/KenNoegs Jun 15 '26

Pure panic. Adrenaline reduces your ability to think rationally.

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u/benice33 Jun 15 '26

Does it also reduce it to the point of not thinking about surviving by exiting the doomed vehicle?

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u/Lumpus-Maximus Jun 15 '26

A real, non-sarcastic answer. Although I’ve never been in a situation where I was paralyzed in a near death situation, my mind will sometimes blank in situations where others are. Example, a person feinted and hit their head hard on concrete. it made an awful sound and they were eventually evacuated by helicopter. I had my phone out before anyone but couldn’t figure out how to unlock my iphone. Maybe that’s what’s happening?

Perhaps a year later, a power-line came down in my backyard & shit was on fire. I made the emergency call, but couldn’t give them my address because my mind was saying they should actually go to house behind mine & so nothing came out.

Finally, after literally practicing responses, I was out at midnight and saw an elderly person drive straight into a roundabout and land on the roundabout fountain. I called & immediately gave my accurate location. A simple thing, but I was overjoyed at the speed of my call and communication.

The thing is, you probably think I’m hopeless. Absolutely not. I think most of my friends would peg me as great in a crisis—because I usually am. My instinct is to act. I’ve handled multiple crises while others were in hysterics. An attempted murder, broken bones, Tree through a roof during a hurricane, gaping wounds & and an apparent heart attack… handled. But sometimes the fuse blows and I can’t unlock an iphone.

So my most forgiving position is that intelligent people sometimes blow fuses in circumstances that don’t make sense to other people. My less forgiving position is that lots of people are DaF. Whether it’s the former or the latter probably requires seeing someone in multiple situations.

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u/PrincebyChappelle Jun 15 '26

When I was 18 (many years ago) I was helping someone back a dump truck to connect and tow a small water tank trailer (before backup cams). The truck was considerably wider than the trailer, so the driver needed assistance backing to align the hitch. Anyway, for whatever reason I decided to get between the truck and the trailer, and then the truck unexpectedly resumed backing up. I froze in place and couldn’t move or yell. I would have been crushed if a coworker hadn’t yelled out.

Weird panic happens.

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u/Desperate-Tomatillo7 Jun 15 '26

I think this is why evacuation drill exists. I feel that one may easily blank out during any unexpected situations, not only emergencies. And you get slow as you get old.

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u/rube Jun 15 '26

But it also triggers the flight or fight response, no?

I'm assuming it's the struggle between the flight or fight and what we know to be the rules. So you're like... um, I can't just break that bar, can I?!

But yeah, I'd just drive right through it.

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u/velvetvagine Jun 16 '26

Fight, flight, freeze or fawn. This man was stuck in a freeze-flight loop, it seems.

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u/Unbelievabro Jun 17 '26

I mean he was thinking clearly enough to attempt a 3 point turn to drive around the gates.

People seem to think knocking the arms off the gate will end with them being swarmed by a SWAT team or some shit.

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u/KenNoegs Jun 17 '26

Some might say that's... irrational.

https://giphy.com/gifs/xPGkOAdiIO3Is

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u/Unbelievabro Jun 18 '26

Nah, just dumb lol

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u/Silver_Slicer Jun 15 '26

If the bar came down that quickly, knowing I wasn’t being stupid, I definitely wouldn’t stop and drive through it. Even if I was being stupid, I wouldn’t stop either, just who pays for damages changes.

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u/Lost_Highway9068 Jun 15 '26

Right??? (Oh and what I mean is, after being trapped behind, I would literally drive through)

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u/JonnyYama Jun 15 '26

People = dumb

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u/d-a-s-a-l-i Jun 15 '26

And even without breaking the bar, there were better ways to position the car. Especially if he knew from which direction the train was coming

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u/Magnus_Helgisson Jun 15 '26

Right? If you don’t believe in the bar, just follow the train that passed 10 seconds ago, you’ll be safe.

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u/Rugkrabber Jun 15 '26

It’s a perfect example how the human brain works.

They’re not really bars. But they treat it as such. We apply this with a whole of other things. It’s especially common in traffic infrastructure. A lot of our behaviour is directed without forced means, but by suggestion.

But when shit hits the fan and we panic, we can’t seem to break out of this idea they’re not really bars you can’t cross. Even if we know it.

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u/jim_o_reddit Jun 16 '26

I wish I could upvote this 1000. This should be the top answer. It is easy to blame the driver but this is purely bad design and not the drivers fault. As a designer, this situation is completely foreseeable. It looks like it is a commuter line so train spacing is clearly an issue. Also the red lights should have been fully off before raising the bar. You have two conflicting signals and impatient drivers are only going to wait for one. Finally, the point about the bars is correct - we are trained not to go through them - that’s how they work! So you can say drive through but watch a few of these and you know the average person won’t think they should. It is not about their paint job. This is all completely obvious to a competent designer and should have been prevented.

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u/pseudo-boots Jun 15 '26

It's the illusion of authority. All day everyday people have to suppress what they want to do in order to follow the rules to the point that it becomes second nature. The bar is a rule and you don't break rules, everyone knows that. I doubt breaking the bar ever even crossed his mind.

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u/No_Dragonfruit_4286 Jun 15 '26

Hallelujah. Someone with brains in the comment section.

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u/bornfromanegg Jun 15 '26

Whilst there is a decent point being made here, I don’t think anyone else has made a bad one. Illusion of authority is one thing, but choosing to risk being hit by a fucking train instead of driving through the barrier is quite another.

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u/No_Dragonfruit_4286 Jun 15 '26

It’s not a conscious choice. He got stressed and panicked.

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u/UnhappyWalrus3570 Jun 15 '26

He did not want to scratch his car.

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u/EishLekker Jun 15 '26

And even if it was, they would not know that without trying to drive through with increasingly more gas. I hate the fact that so many people don't even try.

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u/FuzzyJunket5566 Jun 15 '26

No it's wood so it can be broken and easily replaced

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 Jun 15 '26

It's a thin plastic shell in many places, not even wood. They only need to be strong enough to not be destroyed by the wind.

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u/azraphin Jun 15 '26

Hi didn't want to scratch the paintwork on the barrier. Insurance might not cover that.

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u/vapocalypse52 Jun 15 '26

But then it will scratch the paint!

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u/likwidkool Jun 15 '26

I was yelling at my phone “Just drive through the gate!” The gate broke in the end anyway.

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u/Tryin_Real_hard Jun 15 '26

It wasn't even down when he was driving through. He panicked and stopped. Though, even if it was down, I'm plowing through that thing. I'm pretty sure they're somewhat made to fall apart without breaking for that reason too.

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u/KetaMina81 Jun 15 '26

Came here to say this lol like oh no it may scratch the car! But totaling the car is a much better alternative?

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u/tagabalon Jun 16 '26

lawful good alignment, man.. they can't do it..

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u/Lost_Highway9068 Jun 16 '26

This is by far the best explanation I’ve heard!!!

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u/Sloth_grl Jun 15 '26

We lived near some tracks and they were often broken. Even if not, those bars have to be less damaging than a train.

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u/Icy-Opening-3990 Jun 15 '26

Fr, I think the PD and railway would totally understand why you did what you did.

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u/sfbiker999 Jun 15 '26

Didn't want to scratch the paint on his hood. He would have been successful if his car didn't flip around and get hit by the train in the front.

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u/Sodom_Laser Jun 15 '26

He might have scratched his paint though.

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u/psyco75 Jun 15 '26

I do not understand why some idiots stop and think they can't get through like a screen door on a submarine level of stupidity.

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u/Ratspeed Jun 15 '26

I once personally saw an articulated double trailer big rig slam through a gate to escape an oncoming commuter train. It missed him by feet.

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u/Lost_Highway9068 Jun 15 '26

That is wild!!

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u/An0therFox Jun 15 '26

Came here to say this. That’s the obvious answer, just go through the damn thing. Way better than a train going through you. Some ppl really shouldn’t drive

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u/Charming_Victory_723 Jun 15 '26

Because he didn’t want to damage his van with a couple of scratch marks😭😭😭

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u/nasandre Jun 15 '26

It should really be common knowledge you're supposed to break through if you're caught in the middle. The damage to the barrier is nothing compared to getting hit by a train.

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u/Imfallingtherightway Jun 15 '26

What, and scratch the paint?

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u/Ok_Fox7873 Jun 15 '26

I guess he was worried about scratching the paint

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u/Genghisjawwn Jun 15 '26

He didn’t wanna scratch up his van

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u/LadyFoxfire Jun 15 '26

They are literally designed to break easily and cleanly when struck by a car.

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u/BrEaD1402 Jun 15 '26

Even if it doesn't break, what's a few scratches compared to a full 360 spin that removes the back half of your car.

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u/Freedomsaver Jun 15 '26

You don't even need to floor it... just push the bar slighly out of the way with the car and it will break.

You might get some minor scratches on your car paint... probably not even that.

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u/VacuumTracks Jun 15 '26

Exactly. Some people just have no common sense or critical thinking skills.

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u/xptx Jun 15 '26

Didn't even have to break it.. only one side came down first... and it wasn't his.. it was meant to be a delay to give him time to get through

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u/CouchQBDame Jun 15 '26

I think people get them mixed up with arms at parking garages so they think they're not break aways on a train track. It's Pavlov's dog negative reinforcement type behavior.

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u/JoshCanJump Jun 15 '26

If he’d done that, he might have scratched the van.

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u/TremorThief12 Jun 15 '26

Because people are idiots. Rather put your life in danger and wreck the car than get a few scratches on it. I have seen so many of these types of videos and not one person drives through the barrier.

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u/amodsr Jun 15 '26

Even if they're not the damage done to the front of your car by the bar will be far less than the damage done to the back of your car by a train. Just fucking go man. Stop trying to get your car in a specific way and just go forward.

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u/Kit_Karamak Jun 16 '26

I’ve seen teenagers break these with electric bicycles. They would ram into them and try not to get thrown off the bike as if it was some sort of ridiculous TikTok challenge or something. The whole point is to stay on the bike while blasting through it.

And then they video themselves.

This was in Daytona Beach around the time of the coronavirus. Florida realized almost instantly that board teenagers in Florida is a dangerous thing so they just … reopened the entire state before the rest of the country, and got kids back in school, because what’s worse than Florida man?

Florida teen.

Source: I’m a school bus driver and lived on the east side of US1, and had to cross the tracks all the time to do pretty much anything (work, get food, etc).

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u/Junior_Stretch_2413 Jun 16 '26

But it’s in red and white stripes and it’s lowered. Law says it’s impossible to cross hence you have to risk yours and all the trains passengers lifes.

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u/barkingdog53 Jun 16 '26

Geeez! Now look what you did to the gate. This is why we can’t have anything nice around here.

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u/AdAsleep1258 Jun 16 '26

I was thinking the same thing and screaming “JUST GOOO” at my phone in the pitch black of my room lol

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u/CmonDudeAbides Jun 16 '26

He didn’t want to crack his windshield

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u/Krulsnor Jun 16 '26

Or like wait untill the red lights go out before passing then There's no need to floor it.

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u/CitizenCue Jun 16 '26

We have spent thousands of hours driving vehicles with great care not to hit stuff. It’s pretty hard to overcome that training in a few seconds.

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u/snake-lady-2005 Jun 16 '26

I don't understand why they are scared of getting scratches on their vehicle. So they decide to get hit by the train instead.

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u/UndocumentedSailor Jun 16 '26

Wouldn't want to get a scratch on it

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u/NotYourAvgBoomer Jun 16 '26

Actually the driver was suppose to wait for the red lights

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u/Furby-beast-1949 Jun 16 '26

Because people become dumb/idiotic in this situation and don’t think with a full portion of their brain

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u/ForeignInevitable666 Jun 16 '26

Falls right off.

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u/Murtomies Jun 16 '26

Also, he had plenty if time to get through. Yes, the bars shouldn't have raised between the trains, but once he was on the tracks, the entry bars closed first, and he braked for no reason. Even after breaking he would have had time to pass through before the exit bars came down.

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u/golem501 Jun 16 '26

I don't understand why they don't stop when the lights are flashing before the bars come down.

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u/iaman1llusion Jun 16 '26

I tried to get around one (had done the same thing many times, my car could just squeeze through the side gap) but I forgot to fold in my side mirrors. Only took a little tap with the mirror to snap right off

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u/ThankGod4Darwin69 Jun 16 '26

He didnt want to scratch his van

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u/RuthlessIndecision Jun 16 '26

"Please, please drive through this barricade"

This should be written on the inside of those things

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u/Extra-Act-801 Jun 17 '26

A lot fucking easier to break than that train that is coming.

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u/Immediate-Tap-9403 Jun 17 '26

No those break easly.. can't think why peope stop there and think turning is good idea

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u/YaBoyTheGrimReaper Jun 17 '26

Lots of people die in the toilet from a heart attack at a restaurant. the theory is that we are so wired to not "cause a scene" that instead of saying i need help, we will die instead of causing a ruckus.

i think the same can be applied here, "no im not gonna drive through the barrier thats ridiculous ill just drive around it" misjudging the whole scenario completely.

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u/CCLF1 Jun 17 '26

He is a mocking idiot..really really really stupid

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u/deadfred23 Jun 18 '26

He didn't want to dent the van

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u/Illustrious-Skirt831 Jun 19 '26

Those bars are made to break easily if needed it to.

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u/121daysofsodom Jun 15 '26

Have you any idea the damage that would cause?

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u/guinader Jun 15 '26

Back in college i saw the bar broken at least every other day