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Immage censored for obvious reasons. Its another day and of course another car Driver deciding to Take a Turn Right in Front of a light Rail Train. I just cant understand why, These things a big and Bright yellow or Are people Doing This on purpose trying to outrun the Train for a couple second of time saved?
It's amazing how impatient drivers are. What's even more crazy, is that driving really fast, even to pass somebody, usually only saves you less than a minute of time. For what? So you can doom scroll even longer? If you really want time to doom scroll, ride public transit.
I drive a lot for work, and that stuff drives me crazy. Most people seemingly can't really drive or juat don't care, because they relay on other people to look out for them. The amount of people who juat blatantly look at their phones while driving is staggering.
Maybe it was hard to spot this small thing coming on their left
The Camouflage collour makes These things Practically invisibil
You just never know when and where these thing might show up
You can’t fix stupid. I live in south Florida near the deadliest stretch of railway in the country. There are crossing arms, bells, and lights at every intersection that I have on multiple occasions watched drivers ignore and drive around. I saw one very, very near miss and the aftermaths of several not-so misses. The Brightline that was originally supposed to average about 70mph (115k/h) now operates at 40 (65 k/h)
Thank you for including si units <3
Drivers are the dumbest people known to mankind
this looks just like another challenge for them
"oh fuck i don't think i fit underneath there, i'll have to go up the side!" splat
wasnt there a driver who managed to get stuck on a elevated part of a light rail line?
Charitably, it may be a signal fault.
The real problem is how many people are inconvenienced by one car, when a train is in a collision.
that's why, if i were elected supreme dictator of earth, one of my first decrees would be that drivers have to reimburse the passengers for their delay and pay for any damages on the transport vehicle/infrastructure.
Also: 5 repeats of this and you lose your license permanently, and the state will punish you further by giving you a 5-year free public transport pass for the entire country. Oh how i love being evil.
5 incidents is too generous. If you hit a tram twice at fault, it’s done.
Same for people driving without lights at night (maybe the 5 applies here)
isn't there some place where there is just a yield in Germany? I have the feeling it's the case in Kehl
edit: nope, I'm wrong, there's a blinking thingy
“I can beat that train”
ETA !BitchImATrain doesn’t exist?
Oh Yes This so much I had to Walk Quite a Bit to another Station and Take the Sbahn
Fine the driver the full cost of repairs plus 10% and allow train passengers to sienfir damages of this made them late to something important.
Or just actually make a civilized society and ban cars as personal transportation.
"LRT is dangerous"
I bet this person was looking at their phone and didn’t even think about looking for the train. That’s what I’m seeing for most accidents like this these days.
Its Surprising that there was a train there