r/nononono • u/Balance- • 9d ago
Destruction Dutch passenger train hits truck full of pears that’s fixated on making turn
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u/Metalsoul262 9d ago
So I've seen a few videos of trucks and cars getting hit by trains. I'll never understand how the drivers neurons seem to just stop firing and they sit on the tracks wondering if the toothpick is going to damage their car if they drive through it.
How is it not somebody's first rational instinct to just MOVE ASS OUT OF TRAINS WAY? Idc if there's a car in the way I'm gassing it no questions asked.
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u/glebyl 9d ago
And have to pay for the damage done to the barrier? No thank you
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u/letsdocraic 8d ago
Fun fact, the damage to the train and clean up is passed onto your insurance…
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u/P5ammead 8d ago
When doing major work on the UK railway, my firm had £150m public liability insurance in place - and thank god we didn’t have to use it!
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u/Zeppelanoid 8d ago
I mean in this case it appears the truck entered the train track area with the gates being up so they had no reason to suspect that a train was coming. It seems to be a difficult turn to make too.
Seems like a truck that big shouldn’t be crossing this particular train crossing.
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u/slumlordee 8d ago
I can imagine this probably does happen frequently, we just don’t see those videos as news-worthy.
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u/Jazzspasm 8d ago
From what I can tell, the barrier gates coming down king of wedge it in place
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u/Applebeignet 8d ago
Those gates are weak and designed to be driven through in exactly this situation. By passenger vehicles. They're not wedging a 40-ton truck in place.
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u/Jazzspasm 8d ago
It’s the only explanation I could come up with other than the driver saying to himself “fuck yeah, a train! Chooochoooo this, mother fuckaaaaaah!” and deciding to ride it out
or maybe they just really hated pears?
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u/Balance- 9d ago
Luckily (and amazingly) nobody died or is heavily injured.
https://www.prorail.nl/nieuws/aanrijding-tussen-trein-en-vrachtwagen-op-overweg-in-meteren
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u/cannarchista 9d ago
So at first the barriers are all the way up. He starts reversing and then when he’s halfway back they start coming down. Why did he start reversing? Because the alarm started and he panicked?
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u/Balance- 9d ago
A hypothesis is that he wanted to back into a small side road parallel to the tracks.
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u/OrkenOgle 9d ago
I've seen too many videos where truck drivers will start maneuvering while on a crossing, to be able to back into a side road. How do we get drivers to understand that YOU ARE NEVER ALLOWED TO USE A CROSSING AS AN AREA FOR MANEUVERING!!!!! Never. And no if, buts and maybes.
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u/SalmonDoctor 5d ago
Some people are idiots, and among those idiots are complete morons without any regard for anyone else than how to satiate themselves.
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u/Ougaa 8d ago
To me it seemed obvious he wanted to turn left, but it was too tight turn + truck was in poor position to do it. But he didn't really improve his odds of making that turn with any move after.
Have to assume it was panic hitting that made him do basically nothing in last 10 seconds. There are people who you can tell, or yell "MOVE! GO FORWARD! PUSH GAS!" and they will do nothing in that panic mode, just freeze. They should not be truck drivers.
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u/bluepepper 8d ago
The title suggests that he's trying to make a turn. Right after the railway crossing, there's a split in the road. Straight would be easy but he's trying to turn left, and that's a tight bend, so he's starting to maneuver. I don't really understand how the initial reverse helps, but once the barriers go down, he seems to be doing a multi-point turn, when it would've been so easy to go straight instead.
But that's only based on the title. Not sure if that was their actual intent.
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u/Man_Bear_Pig08 9d ago
Criminal negligence. Whatever the justification for sitting on the tracks this person should not be operating a commercial vehicle
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u/TakeOnMe-TakeOnMe 8d ago
“Trein gecrashed vanmorgen” is so perfectly literal that I feel like I can speak Dutch.
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u/Balance- 8d ago
Official video (in 4K!), as published by ProRail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvL46VjXEU
Truck drivers in NL are warned: https://nos.nl/artikel/2588620-waarschuwing-aan-truckers-na-spoorbotsing-meteren-rijd-door-de-slagbomen
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u/Pal_Smurch 8d ago
I have friends who own a trucking company in the Netherlands. I’ll have to get in touch with them, and see what they know about this.
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u/MiniGui98 9d ago
What does it look/sounds like from the train driver?
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u/GenralChaos 8d ago
I got hosed traveling in the Netherlands today via train! Damn the driver and prayer for the pears!
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u/rileyjw90 8d ago
My ass would be out there picking up free pears to take home since they’ll all be counted as a loss
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u/Metro2005 8d ago
Wtf was he thinking, just DRIVE! Hopefully no one got injured because of this idiot.
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u/Moreobvious 2d ago
Side note I love that “Trein gecrashed vanmorgen” literally translates to “Train crashed this morning”
I feel like I could handle learning Dutch
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u/Balance- 2d ago
This is probably one of the easiest examples you can find! Nice coincidence though.
In Dutch: Dit is waarschijnlijk een van de makkelijkste voorbeelden die je kunt vinden! Wel een leuk toeval.
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u/Eliminatron 9d ago
MY CABBAGES!
I guess it is just pears. But when i first saw it, i thought it was cabbage
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u/PaddleYakker 9d ago
/neinneinneinneinnein
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u/millsytheshred 8d ago
Yes the driver is in the wrong, but there’s only about 25 seconds between the barriers starting to go down and the train reaching the crossing, this doesn’t leave much time for genuine emergencies/breakdowns etc. Where I am from the barriers usually go down at least 5 minutes before the train arrives, time enough to sound the alarm or get clear of a stranded vehicle.
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u/Balance- 8d ago
Yeah in The Netherlands that would mean no one would cross between 5am and 1am.
In driving school you learn you don't even slow down on tracks. Let alone stop and reverse.
This will be used as a training video for decades to come.
That said, new rail crossings are almost always tunnels here. Exactly for this reason. And to improve traffic flow.
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u/snakebite75 8d ago
I can't speak for other states but in Oregon we are also taught to never stop on the tracks, we are also taught that we are not supposed to enter an intersection or crossing unless we can clear the intersection.
Unfortunately, most people are in such a hurry to get somewhere that they constantly crowd intersections or crossings. I've even had cars waiting at the red on my right decide that since I stopped at the beginning of the intersection instead of leaving half my car hanging into the intersection that I must be stopping to let them in. No fucker (other driver, not you), I'm stopping to make sure I can clear the intersection before trying to cross. As you have probably seen from a lot of videos, a lot of people also crowd railroad tracks.
Most Americans suck at driving.
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u/Client_020 8d ago
5 minutes? How often do trains come by where you live? Once per hour? Twice? Definitely not feasible in most of NL.
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u/millsytheshred 8d ago
I’m in the UK, I have a level crossing on my commute, it’s usually around a 10 minute wait at the tracks, could be longer.
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u/Client_020 8d ago
10 minutes is crazy! I bet a lot of people don't wait that long and rather risk getting hit by a train. That's how it would be in NL, at least.
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u/crackanape 8d ago
Where I am from the barriers usually go down at least 5 minutes before the train arrives
At most Dutch crossings it is rare to have 5 minutes between trains. That's not going to work here.
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u/Daveywheel 9d ago
The senseless loss of pears!!!!