Frightening Footage of Sussex Level Crossings: Network Rail's Summer Safety Warning 

Yes, but surely everyone knows that dogs have more sense than humans, silly! 😉

The dog looks more like it was distracted by something behind them. It doesn't know what a rail crossing is and it's not even looking in the direction of the train.

@@andypalin3287 I think you mean "more sense than dog owners". Not "more sense than humans".

@@chrisamies2141 we’ve got places to be not wait around like you. You probably drive at 25mph in a 30 lol

More IQ

That’s because adults just let their kids do exactly what they want nowadays

​​@@mikes5637 Children should be encouraged to take risks. Nothing wrong with that. *However* , there is a world of difference between teaching a child how to assess *worthwhile* risks and what we see happening here.

​I don't he was telling us not to kakw kids take risks...but to do so with common sense is where its lacking in these videos. Like utter braindead​@@thomasm1964

@@thomasm1964 Blah BLAH BLAH

True enough.

Yes, absolutely!

@@gazza2933 I have worked on The Railway for nearly 35 years and some of the stunts I have seen on level crossings and taking short cuts across the main line are simply staggering. These idiots just don't seem to realise that if it goes wrong for them, it's all over.

And us watching it.

@@stephensmith4480 maybe they do, they just don't care

Many have been traumatised for life because of morons like this

Comment of the month, right this here.

Seem in a hurry to get to the next life.

Not the guy with the bicycle at around 0:40. He seems to almost take a nap on the railway.

And a severe lack of imagination.

This is deep

I suspect he was offended that the driver gave him the horn - "How very dare y.." splat!

This is why natural selection exists

​@@MrStark-up6fi You don't seem to have even the faintest grasp of what natural selection is.

He was just checking if it's going or incoming

​ @_randolph2200 that actually could be a good reason, but i think it could be easy to tell if its heading to or away from you by if the headlights are on or if they are red. At least, thats what on/red lights mean on american trains, since a bright white or yellow headlight means "approaching", and red lights means "going away."

So much little💀 how are there no comments lmaoo

Bro trying to be my english teacher

@@Peek-A-Boom1 Fun fact: Not everybody is fluent in English and have other languages they speak 🤯

Down to Sussex is a lovely BTF film

@@NigelOrmsvik lolllllllll

L mamz

@@NigelOrmsvik So many Darwin Award candidates that the human gene pool wouldn’t miss …

Shame shame Rail

almost a gene smear.

@@telmas7183 Gene poodle 🐩

Fun fact: apparently,poodle is the second most intelligent breed of dog,after border collie.

@@rjjcms1 Indeed, an old girlfriend of mine had a standard poodle, very clever and a decent guard dog as well.

​@@mickg7299seems that even the dog in one of these clips had more sense than it's owner, and wasn't even a poodle or border collie! 😂

It just needs a old-time vaudeville piano track

More like a couple getting together.

I thought the top cyclist actually veered directly into the other cyclist.

The one who steered had a brain glitch.

At least the lad who went to assist had the sence to look left then right ...

🤣🤣🤣

even He knows that messing with trains and active level crossings are dangerous

He must have muttered that to himself at least once or twice.

In Sussex.😂

@@FSandG yes, Jesus knows that

@@rjjcms1 lol probably. Hypocrite 😂

@@FSandG well safely regulations allowed them to multiply.

The dropside Transit is likely to have an untraceable owner, with no MOT and the VED hasn't been payed.

@@iwb316 on their way to “ find” some trackside cable

@@dwrowley Travellers

@@ramblingrob4693 You bet

Exactly.

Scarier still, some of these people are likely to have a driver's licence.

I watched a video yesterday in Birmingham asking people the most basic questions you could think of and they got every question wrong... Even a financial adviser couldn't answer a simple maths question... We're shafted!

@@user-um1xt3kh And raise children.

@@pc750-V4 : yes, but it's clearly not working well enough.

@@pc750-V4 it’s artificial selection

​@@smhorse give it time 😂

Non-survival of the dumbest.

Problem is, nowadays we let everyone breed... no more selection anymore

@@SteveHuntingdon you should have told him to go ahead! What an idiot

@@SteveHuntingdon should have told him it's your life not his

@@SteveHuntingdon for some reason people don't treat flashing red as stop, the same way they would treat a red light at a junction. Seems like they need to be literally restrained by a physical barrier to stop them darwinning themselves. Good on ya for stopping!

@@LiamBushrod Actual restraint is far better (and more grammatically correct) than literal restraint. 🤣 Just because Americans overuse and misuse the word literally, it doesn't mean you should.

Makes me wonder if the driver who got out of the car and banged on the window is competent to continue driving...

I had to go back and rewatch several times. I figure the cyclist in black was slightly more in the wrong, on the wrong side of the road, but then again the blue cyclist had already centred up. They both should have stopped ahead of time, but the black cyclist seemed to make things worse.

Yea both were in the wrong but the guy in black made things worse.

@@johnbeech there's no more in the wrong here

1:22

You made me re-watch that clip, and I'm in agreement with this - He sprints over the first road, then stops _squarely_ in the four-foot of the second. His body-language is also very consistent with that of a person having those thoughts¹. 😢 (¹ - Regrettably, I know this all too well for having been in the same place myself recently - Thankfully not so close as standing in the four-foot in front of an approaching train, but dangerously close to it. Ironically enough; In my case this was for things to do with the non-acceptance of the consequences of historical abuse on the person, and non-acceptance of the limitations of non-chosen disabilities, on the part of a Spanish train driver... 💔😢)

These idiots see Heritage trains as harmless toys that cannot hurt them, unlike "real" trains.

I reran that particular accident many times. It just makes no sense, albeit both were on the wrong side of the road before it happened. What in the world was the one in black thinking to veer across to hit the other?

@@freeman8128 True, with crossings guarded by actual people they even are offended when they are being dragged off of the tracks. Some people have no sense at all.

​@@stephensaines7100 they are on the wrong side, and one turning even more so, to avoid the barriers as they close. The entry barrier lowers before the exit barrier. So they both have no excuse to be there at all. As for the path the one entering the screen from the top/right took - just bizzarre. But then, if they are smooth brained enough to jump the lights then even they won't be able to convey to a normal human what they were trying to acheive.

calculated risk

It's the same when you're driving and you see an idiot. You always want to ask them "What if there's another idiot coming the other way?" Well, these two tried it

@@stratman9449 “Break right”…”your right or my right.”

@@stratman9449 Bisquit? Don’t you mean biscuit. I like dark chocolate digestive biscuits 🍪

You won’t have to watch out for them if you just wait for the barriers

What? They crossed when the barrier was down!

I didnt notice that, they assumed the barrier was down for the first train, so they crossed as soon as it passed, not realising another train was coming from the other direction. Obviously there is an easy way to avoid this by not crossing while the barrier is down. But I did wonder how they hadn't noticed that train coming until you pointed it out.

@@concept226 ​Used to cross a double line most days via a public footpath, over the 6 years I was there I've seen people stepping out as soon as the up line carriages pass while a train creeps up unheard unseen on the down line, seen a few close misses, I know of a few hit in other locations.

Yea he not only crosses when the barriers where down, he was too haughty to then at least look out for trains.

And if you are that big of an idiot....at least check. Even when they are up I always quickly check if nothing is coming.

Sometimes barriers malfunction

@@des_smith7658 Then you call the signalman, there are phones by the barriers or call the police, you do not cross when barriers are down, do you not get it yet?

@@des_smith7658doesn’t matter if you think it’s malfunctioned, you should still never drive through a crossing while the barriers are down. Just find another way

@@ronrolfsen3977same. There’s always that feeling you get while exposing yourself to potential danger even when it’s safe.

*Dumbest

She'd have been turned into spaghetti

Unfortunately she will be around and have a family

Legend has it she is still running 😂

@@memphisdaniels3218 I can’t stupid some people can be, even a near miss can be very traumatic for a train driver.

This.

@@Spartacus45 I’m a train driver. Stupid kids playing chicken is unfortunately more common than you think. Its also very difficult for people stood in front of a train to estimate how fast they are going and how long they have left to get out of the way.

Retired driver. People have no idea, the only person with a brain here was the bloke who looked up the line before crossing to help the cyclists. ( which was actually funny, both obsessed about beating the lights and just rode into each other. Fortunately it was controlled cctv monitored crossing, same as the Chichester stuck van, or else it’d be a different story. ) Had a few extremely close calls on foot crossings in my time

@@highdownmartin I've had a few _too-close-for-comforts_ in my time too, despite usually taking as much care as I can when using level crossings. There's one near me (An unsignalled pedestrian crossing) where there's a blind curve immediately up from the crossing, and this cuts the sighting for down trains to as little as three seconds on a section with a 90mph limit. I've even asked Network Rail to give us a white light to assist safe crossings in the past, but they won't. ⚠ The strange thing is that the path used by the crossing parallels the cess for at least 200m before leaving the line, and the road immediately down from there is at least one straight mile with excellent visibility. Is there any reason for why Network Rail _wouldn't_ move the crossing down by 200m, or at least make the down whistle board mandatory? 😇

That's one reason why I still check in all directions before crossing even if the equipment indicates that it's safe to proceed. It's very well maintained and kept to a high standard of reliability, but there's absolutely no harm in using your own eyes and ears to cover for that 1:1000000 failure... 👍

That line - "Un train peut en cacher un autre"? - occurs to me every time I see one of these.

​@@wulla2 honestly, it can catch you out even if you know this and there's signage. At tramline stops, where it is designed to be crossed unprotected on foot, I've nearly been caught out a few times. There's a powerful illusion or mind trick at play, I think

So, maybe they should put a sign on every road along every road along both sides that there might be cars driving on that road. There are just things you learn as a child. Those things are called common sense. Coffee is hot.

Yes :D Now it makes total sense that all those trucks run into that bridge, if they are THAT dumb :)

Indeed. The way they used x2 speed was also dishonest. There was nothing wrong.

1:43 is the bike accident

Yes, and girls will stay with such idiots, not caring about non idiot people.

Have you seen the clip of the man with a bicycle forcing his way through crossing gates, nearly being hit by a train and shaking his fist at it? South London at its finest.

@@garethgilmour9021 they’re everywhere. I had something very similar when I was blue-lighting to a cardiac arrest in my ambulance.

@@Pte1643 You get it on the Buses, people squaring up and throwing punches at the Driver.....in the cab of an oncoming multi ton Bus !

tbh; The way he sprints over the first road and stops squarely in the four-foot of the second - Plus his body language - Suggests his intent might've been to _enter_ the crossing but not _leave_ it... ⚰😢

The driver probably had six months off after a miss _that_ close... 😢

Because a lot of railroad operators are sloppy. Don't care to calculate opening times, so it stays closed forever and a day. That leads people to not take it seriously anymore since 'barriers closing' means 'in the next 3 minutes, a train might arrive'. And every once in a while it's a real closing instead of a sloppy one, and someone dies. We had a crossing here that routinely closed 20-25 minutes with up to 8 minutes between trains, with the barriers going up but lights staying on. On the way to my highschool. Yeah, kids crossed that one illegally all the time. I did too as I do get penalised for being late. In 6 years of crossing there every single day, I've never once seen a train cross without the barriers down. Railroad enforcement tried to penalise and berate people. It ended in fighting because they were enforcing an idiotic rule.

Because patience is a virtue that few possess.

@@mickg7299 most people are morons huh?

Why can't people just don't be idiots.

@@SVEVelsen That's very true and way too many people don't know this, barriers being down too early and too long are a severe safety hazard. And this applies in a much more general sense too.

How's that boot taste boy?

Absolutely nothing to do with this video. Idiots have been idioting forever

Not only your country, idiots are everywhere sadly.

All that road to themselves, but still they crashed !

You're right

Yeah unless there was an audible siren before the light changed to red, he just got really unlucky with his timing, like he'd *just* walked past the green light and then it changed to red. Note that the video is sped up x2 to make it look worse, if you put the playback speed to 0.5 you can see how it was for real. It looks like the red light gives you about 20 seconds warning

@@ajl241 you can see he was off the track 12 seconds before the train passed.

It changed to red just before he stepped on it and the footage was played at X2 meaning he also took a ridiculous amount of time to cross it.

True, but how do you know he’s not disabled or injured? He might not have been able to walk faster. Yeah he should have stopped probably but still.

Not to mention he had plenty of time to cross Abt 9 seconds before the train went by

@@HallsofAsgard96 Nope.

At 1:43 he has not yet walked past the position where the crossing light would normally be placed (the normal position is just on the non-railway side of the fence that is inline with the railway / perpendicular with the road), the light would have been showing green and would have changed to red just before he got to it. These crossing light units also have loud sirens.

@@Mark1024MAK He clearly passed the signal when it was on green. The x2 speed make it look dangerous, it was not.