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u/Batmanswrath 7d ago
All that to try and save ten seconds..
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u/im_lazy_as_fuck 7d ago
More like 2 seconds. If I was one of the cars behind him and I had to get stuck in traffic because of this shit I would be absolutely livid.
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u/Jerko_23 7d ago
How impatient do you have to be to not be able to wait 5 seconds longer. Now enjoy waiting hours for roadside assistance, weeks to get your truck working again, and probably lose out on an months equivalent of wages from fines, repairs, etc.
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u/Middle_Draft9152 7d ago edited 6d ago
The railway company will definitely sue him for millions of rubles due to the downtime of dozens of trains...
Even city trams services are heavily suing drivers, after they hit the tram, for basically every minute of line downtime. Railway is way worse.
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u/zero_2_deniro 6d ago
If the driver was an individual as opposed to a company representative shown in this video.
How would someone even be able to pay back the millions they get sued for from the train companies.
Also, I'm curious how train companies navigate litigation against them when derailments happen. Do they pay individuals or is class action suits a different beast?
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u/Middle_Draft9152 6d ago
Usually all passengers with tickets are under insurance, even in the city buses, and definitely in the trains.
The driver can go through bankruptcy process for example. He basically lost everything due to his impatience anyway.
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u/Choice_Blackberry406 6d ago
This dude just tipped over a truck carrying heavy equipment. He couldn't get a job on the back of a garbage truck after this.
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u/Anarchist-Liondude 7d ago
Some motorists will look at you straight in the eyes and tell you that a coinflip to die in the most painful way imaginable, skin melting into a puddle, suffocating in a mangled ball of sharp metal on fire, for the opportunity to shave 5 seconds off their morning commute is worth it.
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u/alkuu19 7d ago
I have found they tend to avoid eye contact when you catch up to them at the next stoplight.
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u/king_noobie 7d ago
Or a friendly middle finger.
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u/magicklydelishous 6d ago
I started just giving them a thumbs down and frown. It’s been so great
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u/haliblix 7d ago
Once I realized that driving 10mph/15kph faster on a two hour drive nets me maybe 10 minutes less time on the road, I just take my time. Especially driving in town, any savings in time rushing is a rounding error. It’s just not worth it.
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u/Routine-Tourist69 7d ago
Why or how did the train stop?
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u/SirBanananana 7d ago
I checked the map and the crossing in the video is right before a rail yard, so the train probably stopped because of a signal or a wrong switch.
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u/Barbarake 7d ago
This is probably important because the train was slowing down and the truck driver probably didn't realize it and simply misjudged the speed at which the train would clear the crossing.
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u/veluciraktor 7d ago
Yeah I would also cross over with my multi ton work-vehicle once judging has been done by my strict internal projected speed measouring calculator.
I like to call it "wingin' it".
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u/SaneIsOverrated 7d ago
Maybe it was already stopping/coasting, and light enough that grabbing and toppling the heavy equip the truck was carrying stopped it a bit earlier than intended
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u/Moldy_Teapot 7d ago
even tiny trains (<20 cars), can easily weigh hundreds of tons. An (at most) 40 ton truck would hardly register
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u/JosieMew 7d ago
I was about to comment the same. That train would have to be much lighter than the ones I see here to slow that much that quickly.
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u/Velo3x10e8 7d ago
Looking at those coordinates I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there was some vodka in this equation.
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u/Zem_42 7d ago
If only there was a way to prevent this!
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u/Work_Account_No1 6d ago
You know how trains are - they are ambush predators. Almost nothing could've prevented this. Trains are just way too evolved for us to effectively deal with them. We should just leave them be and give them the planet to do with as they please. We should've never left the caves.
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u/comfycrat 7d ago
I'm guessing the overhanging bit at the back was above his sight line, he probably thought it was perfectly clear.
The truck driver definitely should have been more respectful of the train anyway, always gives trains a heap of space... but also, it's a bit of a dangerous design of that back carriage.
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u/Desert_Viking_777 7d ago
I thought that too. About the sight line. Until I rewatched it and realized that the driver completely went under/through the shadow of the crane for a couple of seconds. On a sunny day. With nothing around to cast shadows. It was just impatience and lack of situational awareness
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u/KraftyJoker 7d ago
You couldn't have waited 5 seconds, Dave? 5 fucking seconds?
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u/Sorry-Climate-7982 7d ago
Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder how a train moving that fast managed to stop in roughly just one vehicle width of the truck? Did the train have reverse thrusters or something attached to it?
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u/birgor 7d ago edited 7d ago
The train wasn't moving very fast, and is probably not that heavy since it looks like it is an emptied out track layer train. I also think it started to brake long before the accident, maybe to a planned stop by a signal further ahead?
I work with trains and it doesn't look like it stopped exceptionally fast in any way just from the optics of it.
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u/marvk 6d ago
Yep. Also I looked up the exact model the last time this video was posted:
The whole thing is a track laying train. You can see some track assembly on the third car from the back. There's a large carriage on the red jib that lifts part assembled tracks from the cars to the front of the cars to be installed.
Here's more information, including videos of it in action: https://www.eurogunzel.com/2018/03/russian-railways-tracklayer-trains/
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u/birgor 6d ago
Thanks!
It's an interesting way of laying track with pre-built sections like if it was a Decauville or model track.
I have only seen it done here in Sweden otherwise and here the sleepers are placed and lined up first, and the rails go on separately, in much longer sections than what we see here.
I guess either way works, but there will be lots of welds or joints when you do it this way.
I am a rail vehicle mechanic so this is not my specific field, but I have seen it done many times.
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u/3767_doomscroller 7d ago
It's the number one thing I hate about driving and having to be part of traffic. Impatient drivers. The insane amount of risk people take to get to their destination mere seconds or minutes earlier than they think they will get there and the amount of damage, pain, suffering and deaths caused by this retarded behavior is mindboggling to me.
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u/j_man_32 7d ago
He was having a good day.. everything was great! He was enjoying the day until…….. he wasn’t.
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u/ConfusedHors 7d ago
It is absolutely beyond my comprehension how some people have so little understanding of their surroundings.
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u/Right-Glass9508 7d ago
Train driver should have tied a high-viz tabard to the end of overhanging load.
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u/Xamalion 7d ago
People are so blind to their surroundings, I can witness that every day in traffic.
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u/raphaelthehealer 7d ago
Builders of trucks should make the driver the highest point on the truck so the driver knows there is no way they can fit under said crane, bridge, or other infrastructure. If it is literally coming right at their face they will stop, if it isn't they think it is fine because "I" fit and they don't think about their load. For trucks that then load things above the driver, the company or truck owner is fined and can never operate trucks legally again. If caught doing it again, automatic jail time, not years but several months. Get caught a third time, now we are talking years of jail time because clearly you do not care and will not follow the law. People should learn from their mistakes but sadly it seems like a growing number of people are incapable of even understanding what a mistake is and that it can be due to their actions.
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u/gunsjustsuck 7d ago
Didn't want to come to a complete stop and work his way through all those gears again. Lazy.
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u/HeliosRunner 7d ago
People calling the guy "impatient"... maybe he was, sure. But what strikes me here is something I've seen a bunch of times: he just forgot about the load he was carrying that day.
I've seen this happen more often than you'd think, and with several types of vehicles. Someone switches from their usual small car to a longer rental truck (moving stuff between places, etc.), and their muscle memory is still set to "I'm in my normal car." They take a tight corner the way they always do, and the rear of the truck clips a parked car, a post, whatever was just outside the path their brain was used to.
It's not really "impatience" in the classic sense, it's more like the brain autopiloting on old data. The extra height/length wasn't part of the mental model for that drive, even though it was obviously sitting right there on the back.
Not excusing it, the load is your responsibility and you should be re-scanning for clearance, just saying I don't think "idiot couldn't wait 5 seconds" is the whole story here.
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u/Figerally 7d ago
What a dumbass, he obviously failed to notice the shadow the thing was casting over his cab.
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u/PvtHudsonBR 7d ago
So many things in life could be avoided by waiting another 30 seconds...
So she said too.
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u/undead-bee 7d ago
Sometimes im blown away by how much of a city person I am. I rly thought all train crossings had those barriers that lower and raise...
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u/amrinderbrar 7d ago
The driver would've been impatient if he tried to cross before the train passed and "saved" time. This shows he is stupid.
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u/Traditional_Cat4308 7d ago
Little bro was envious of the bigger vehicle that he couldnt wait to get out of there lmao.
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u/JustTheTip-1990 7d ago
Anyone else find it strange how there's no commentary or reaction from the POV driver? I know I wouldn't be sitting silently getting a front row view to that!
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u/Zofia-Bosak 6d ago
The truck driver did it on purpose, it is impossible they didn't see the overhanging machinery, hopefully the insurance has seen this video and gone after the driver to recoup the losses.
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u/Wishing4Whisky 6d ago
Imagine going through life and being THAT fucking stupid... It must be exhausting.
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u/MGlBlaze 6d ago
Tried to save a handful of seconds, now their entire day is fucked. And probably more than that, all the paperwork and dealing with repairs is definitely going to take more than one day.
And they massively delayed everyone else trying to use the crossing too.
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u/Pandoratastic 6d ago
I'm guessing he thought "My cab can fit under that, no problem." and it wasn't until he started to fall over that he remembered he was hauling something taller.
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u/offconstantly247 6d ago
but he was going to shave ten to fifteen seconds from his workday, so worth it.
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u/Former_Matter9557 6d ago
What an idiot. They give idiots like this a job but I’m perfect driver and having trouble getting a driver job. America sucks ass.
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u/gearlegs4ever 6d ago
Why are people so fucking selfish and cannot fathom waiting mere seconds for shit? Also these same people LOVE to get violent and road rage/get out of their car and shit.
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u/shanex300 7d ago
People are so impatient