Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

A dude on a bike runs into a gate here:

A gate lands on a truck here, and promptly gets twisted. Then the crossing starts tail-ring malfunctioning multiple times until engineers fix the problem.
Though not sure why that is enough to trigger a malfunction like that, how exactly?

A crossing gate lands on this oblivious driver's car, who also happens to be recording.

Yes, you can't see the gate drop onto his car, but the bump you hear is the sound of the gate hitting his truck.

NathanFromEngland wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:28 am A crossing gate lands on this oblivious driver's car, who also happens to be recording.

Yes, you can't see the gate drop onto his car, but the bump you hear is the sound of the gate hitting his truck.

Double-edged sword there. The truck driver could have started reversing immediately when he realized that the car went around him, and he probably would have had enough time to be behind the gate.

Careless driver decides to just drive on through the gate as soon as the train passed, though thankfully no serious damage considering the car is a small sedan.
(3:00)

Someone walks right into a lowering gate arm in this video at 0:28:

freebrickproductions wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:30 pm Someone walks right into a lowering gate arm in this video at 0:28:

That had to have hurt!

I laughed at the millenniumforce comment

A crossing gate lands on a car and the van that is stuck on the crossing is sideswiped by a train, which takes out a crossing gate. (10:11)


EDIT: Found this while browsing BBC News earlier today, the video can be watched here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... t-by-train

Doesn't really count (not sure if you might also be able to watch the video) but i found this while browsing my local news website this evening.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... t-17693778

A van breaks through a crossing gate in Turkey, moments before it's struck by a train.


I also noticed the crossing has a NEG E-Bell and Safetran Type 3!