A lorry driver breaks the the barrier off a crossing here.

Here's one I discovered from my country, a platform crossing at Woodlesford in North Yorkshire. I discovered this video whilst idly looking through a playlist consisting of old level crossing footage. The video featured dates from 2005.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCpu4moSWug

The crossing was ...

Another observation in an episode of Top Gear, this time from 2005. In the episode where Jeremy (in a Bugatti Veyron) races James & Richard (In a light aircraft) from Turin, Italy to Tower 42 in London, there is a short scene showing Jeremy stuck at a railway crossing in France (although incorrectly ...

In Series 11, Episode 6 of Top Gear, Brayford level crossing can be briefly seen active in the background whilst Clarkson & May are looking for a place to charge their electric cars in Lincoln. - (4:42)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkwQc3rzCfs

The area surrounding the crossing has changed ...

Not sure if this may count as an 'encounter' but while standing around in Formby. I was asked by some people if I knew where a convenience store was. After looking the store up (in which it turns out was a short walk behind me) I told them it was just a short walk up the road (I was wrong as I ...

Was filming in Parbold earlier today, I was trying to get a shot of the actual signal box without standing on the crossing and coming off as suspicious. (due to limited space it was hard to get something convincing) I got spotted by the signaller regardless whilst trying to do that, but he was very ...

A gate gets knocked off by the trailer of a dump truck at this crossing in Serbia.

A crossing gate lands on a car at 0:38 at this crossing in Romania.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8xn5GFl-ps

On an unrelated note, the crossing is due to be closed at the end of this month, as an overpass is being built across the line from reading through some of the comments.
https://www ...

This showed up in my subscription feed earlier today, with the crossing barrier landing on the back of the viewers car at 1:13, combined with a too close for comfort near miss with the train.

Not something you see every day, found this whilst browsing BBC News this evening.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-59946362

The plane made an emergency landing on railroad tracks, though police were just about able to pull the pilot to safety before the train struck the wreckage.