Railway crossings

[Beaconbouy]

What is it with these drivers apart from the "suicide" train crash killer, that they seem to stop dead on the rail crossings???:rant: They cause crashes and take lives, you drive 10 miles and stall and are unable to restart on a 10 metre piece of 'slightly' raised road. Has TVR taken over the entire alternator market Well please enlighten me, I however think that it is plain WRONG for people to be intersecting an area frequented by trains travelling at over 100mph perpendicular to the cars. A solution "MUST" be found, if this were Germany Von
Braun himself would be reanimated to solve this problem.

[Eric Mc]

What problem?

What incidences are you talking about?

How many incidents have there been?

Are there more incidents happening or is it just that they are being picked up by the media because they are a a topical news item?

[Pigeon]

It seems that many train-hits-car incidents are caused by a car "getting stuck on the crossing". I too am baffled at the sheer incompetence which seems the only reasonable explanation for this. I can understand a low-loader getting stuck due to grounding out, but a car? If it conks out while traversing the crossing it will have enough momentum to roll off it. If it conks out before the crossing it'll take some time to stop, so you can either put the brakes on before you get there or if closer roll right over it. Even if it does come to a halt on the tracks you can drive it off on the starter. You only "get stuck" in the case of some catastrophic mechanical misfortune, like a wheel falling off. I am not aware of catastrophic mechanical misfortune ever being determined to be the cause of the car getting stuck, so that just leaves us with incompetence taken to utterly baffling levels.

Edited to add: Sometimes people even turn off the road at the crossing and drive down the tracks without apparently noticing anything wrong. That baffles me even more.


>> Edited by Pigeon on Sunday 19th December 19:48

[beaconbouy]

Pigeon said:

Edited to add: Sometimes people even turn off the road at the crossing and drive down the tracks without apparently noticing anything wrong. That baffles me even more. >> Edited by Pigeon on Sunday 19th December 19:48

>> Edited by beaconbouy on Monday 20th December 01:20

[gh0st]

Pigeon said:

Edited to add: Sometimes people even turn off the road at the crossing and drive down the tracks without apparently noticing anything wrong. That baffles me even more. >> Edited by Pigeon on Sunday 19th December 19:48

Not me.

After seeing people reverse round ROUNDABOUTS!!! because they missed a turning , that video of the couple reversing a micra for over 30 mins and the battle of the stereotypes I saw yesterday (BMW cutting up a white van whist not indicating or loooking in mirrors and skinhead thug in van shaking fist out window then chasing after BMW... stereotypes are not real though are they ) - it takes a hell of an event to even make me raise an eyebrow at the almost staggering unbelieveable disgraceful sheer idiocy at the most basic level of driving on the roads.

Whats even sadder is that I notice this at the age of 25...

[birdbrain]

The lack of observation that people possess when in control of a piece of metal weighing over a ton and able to travel at up to 150mph never ceases to amaze me.