Reading and Northern 425 steam train hits car leaving lot in Jim Thorpe 

EXACTLY ! !!

@@MarkInLA @JOSEPH Paige the cars brakes failed. Do research before making an extravagant claim.

@@trainman05matthewb.65 call bs on that he locked up his brakes on the tracks.

@@Dave96z34v2 "failed" doesn't mean "locked up" necessarily. It can also mean "failed to function"

@@trainman05matthewb.65 i did do research an in fact the driver did NOT see or hear the train, here is a copy and paste from the news article................................ JIM THORPE, CARBON COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) - A car drives directly into the path of a train in motion. A crowd of tourists witnessed the crash - some even had their phones out for the quick collision. “I thought it was kind of nuts! I mean the car was up to the train and you could see that the train was there,” said Lisa Sciler, a visitor. It happened in Jim Thorpe on Labor Day. An elderly couple visiting from Greensburg, Pennsylvania was leaving the train station parking lot. To get out to route 209 you have to drive over these train tracks. “Through investigations officers learned that the driver of the vehicle claimed he didn’t hear or see the train and of course collided with it,” said police chief Joe Schatz. The train hit the passenger’s side of the car. The driver, Roy Fatur, sustained minor injuries and his wife - in the passenger seat - reported no injuries. In Jim Thorpe, pedestrians and drivers need to use extra caution when approaching the railroad tracks. At this intersection there are no gates and no crossing arms that signal when a train is coming. “I always look twice, and sometimes three times because you never know,” said Sciler. “Look and listen because that’s clearly an example of how if you’re not looking or listening you can run into a problem,” said Schatz. Chief Schatz says he will discuss this incident with the mayor and council members at a workshop on Thursday. Together, they will determine what can be done to make this spot safer. And because the lot is owned by the county, they will also reach out to county leaders. “I think everyone got lucky! Everyone is safe and can tell the story the next day so that’s a blessing,” said Sciler.

*Got hit by a train.

The nerve of that train to not try and swerve to avoid the collision.

@@FirstLastOne lol

The train should have swerved out of the way.

Apparently this video is popping up in our recommendations this week

"look, a squirrel"

Maybe the car driver thought "it's just a steam train, it must be extremely slow"

The real problem is called "systematic fatigue". If a person does the same thing every day they get into a zombie like trance and don't notice that THIS day things are different. It happens in supermarket car parks, picking up the kids from school and commuting to work. It is more dangerous that alcohol and no one knows what to do about it.

Texting while driving?

Steam train? Whistle? What video did you watch?

Yup, knew an old guy who decided to turn at an intersection, didn't look and got hit by a truck after he drove in front of it. He survived luckily and stopped driving after that. Heard about an old woman who was parking her car in front of shop. Hit the accelerator again instead of the brake and drove through the glass front of the shop - again stopped driving after that.

"Mr. Magoo" 😂

🤣

People are interested in what the train does. Not in what the car does.

We had an old woman pull out in front of one of our 18 wheelers, she never saw it. He ran right over the car.

More like texting.

After the accident - Driver: "Yes, officer, the train came outta nowhere and totally violated my right of way! You need to give that bastard train engineer a ticket!!"

"The entitled train driver should've swerved out of my way!"

@@howardsmaid3491 in America the train Operator is called the "Engineer" on most railroads unless You work for MTA as a subway Operator

Trains be like choo choo bitch!

Andrew Crouse The cars get in the way and gets hit.

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Andrew Crouse if the car gets in the way of the train the train will hit it and a lot of people had bin hit by trains in crossings before after there were stuck on the tracks . between the crossing gates.

Now you got to be really careful, never know when a train's going to jump right out in front of you.

I stopped at the right point but the bloody train swerved at the last moment and hit me. I am going to SUE.

@@smitajky now that sounds like a very reasonable scenario in the US of A

@@smitajky would you sue

"I thought trains were only supposed to drive on tracks, not on roads."

@@Andrew-13579 is that what the "driver" of the white suv said?.....don't say that was you.....!!.... :-)

I agree his license should be revoked and give a promotion to the guy shoveling the coal!

As well as being allowed to reproduce

@@alvinwagner6745 😮🤣

@@alvinwagner6745 🤣🤣🤣

Agreed their licence and their direct family’s licences too, just so he’s got people close to him that’ll be mad at him forever for being that numb

Did you just assume the driver's gender you mysogynist

@@arvindjijiantony4882 what?

That’s a whistle

@@arvindjijiantony4882 what??

@@arvindjijiantony4882 *misandrist

He/She did hear but they thought they could beat the train.

Impantince.

Humans are stupid

probably on the phone/texting, lucky to be alive

Vehicle driver did not see the train as their radio was too loud.

probably for one of two reasons. (1) cell phone shoved in their ear and the rest of the world tuned out OR (2) windows rolled up and stereo cranked up full volume so it's rattling their brain pan something fierce

Janet Vonnik: In-deed! See, hear, and/or FEEL it, for God's sake! The whistle is just like the trumpets on modern locomotives, I mean, it's not only loud, but it literally shakes the air ahead of it. And, at this slow speed it'd very likely cause doors/windows to create an-"oil can" sensation inside the entire vehicle. Talk about inattention! Man!

no, cars are way quieter than trains (joke)

Train not large enough to see 👀. Steam whistle not loud enough to hear.

I guess not

😂😂😂

@@michaelinhouston9086 koooooooook....dhawwwd

That's so funny! It perfectly describes 'The Internet of things' :-)

It took me 5 minutes to read this comment to my mom because my head kept dropping to the kitchen table in hysterics. SO FUNNY.

After the accident - Driver: "So that's what that sound was!! A collision alert!! Wow, these newfangled cars are great!! They can even tell you when you're about to be hit by a train!!"

the whistle or the Thunk of rebounding SUVs?

@Delightfully Charming Trains have the right of way on railway crossings . This is because trains carry alot of momentum and mass and cannot stop on a dime . It's basic grade 10 science. Mass and momentum and go look it up .

@Delightfully Charming Thanks for the info . I borrowed the name kooka Munga from a Bugs Bunny Cartoon but misspelled it . I found out later Kooka Munga is spelled Cucamonga and is an actual place in California. Cartoons are a great place to learn geography .

It was Helen Keller.

Bet they lied on the car insurance claim form.... 🤣😂

@@kookamunga2458It’s also third grade grammar to know “alot” is a non-word only knuckle-draggers and dropouts use.

Ha

license to far more things than just drive, that was proof it should be revoked for many things including breeding

化学物理 それな

Uchiha Itachi よだちゃーーん

乗りたかったんでしょう

PinkLaffs Yes, the car pulled in front of the train, but what you say may make people confused. What I've gathered from your comment, you're saying the train didn't hit the car. The correct would be saying: The train hit a car pulling in front of it.

PinkLaffs if I remeber correctly,I was there. Nobody was seen in the car. And I was very close. Nobody was in it.

Whilst I do agree, I bet it never even scratched the paint. Lol.

@@dancedecker I think it did scratch the paint. A little.

@@realulli lol. Oh dear. Tsk tsk!!

.......and are STUPID..........

I doubt the loco even noticed

The sad thing is that in over a hundred years of both trains and automobiles people driving cars are still yet to learn that they cannot beat a train.

Nek minit

Andrew Weldy Yeah, but that genius was apparently oblivious to the train's presence. She would blend right in as a Puget Sound area motorist.

DieselElevators well it would help if people took their head out of their ass and put down their effing phones. But you can't fix stupid.

abc def "She would blend right in as a Puget Sound area motorist." * He.

No, the driver was probably thinking, "Why the [expletive] is the train not stopping?" I would nominate him for a Darwin, had he not survived.

Being that brain dead probably thought train would go around his or her car !!!!!

Follow The Flag Productions he was probably hoping he stopped before he entered the path of the train. bad miscalculation.

with a rail under his car

That was the stupidest move I ever saw it was like oh wait lemme check my map..... now lets see boom

Looks to me like they tried to dive in front, then panicked at the impending collision and tried to back out of it, too slow.

someone who is trying to sue them for whatever ulterior motive they have...i hope this footage is submitted at the trial because it demonstrates intent to cause an accident on behalf of the car driver.

"I guess someone is making some tea."

Bill Griffin: Got to be brain dead!! UNBELIEVABLE!!

polikwaptiwa che Ikr, you're an idiot if you pull out in front of a train normally, but on a scenic railroad is next level idiocy

Here's your sign

if you saw the video clip, you know the answer

engineer6325 no I think the tender got. bent

tenders are much easier to fix than boilers...

TheWatchKeeper that was 100% due to the idiotic traverse owner not paying attention to his/her surroundings...nothing to do with impatience. As a professional driver I can tell you that many, if not most of todays drivers under the age of 50 are totaly and completely unaware of what's going on around them. Sadly, not as much of their inattention is due to electronic disturbances as you'd think. The vast majority of todays inattention "accidents" are because todays cars are simply too safe. Get rid of the crumple zones, the anti crush roofs, the 25 airbags and all of the other "safety" bs...and you'll see Americans learn to drive again.

Drive a truck for a living and from my experience unfortunately idiots are a vast natural resource that shows no signs of shortage

People are that stupid

Words that any motorcyclist dreads to hear "Gee officer, I didn't see him coming."

Certain groupings demanding equality of opportunity regardless of whats perfectly obvious to everyone else. Happen.

The train is a piece of human technology... It doesn't have any relevance to the species - Equus Asinas... Other than it might be conveying said species across country in an animal car.

What’s an ass train?

I mean sure, even if they’re elderly, there’s no way they looked at least 3 times and went. The trains huge and moving.

Rcbif I cant tell if you’re being stupid, or are mocking stupid people.

Both.

Rcbif This is a very unoriginal comment but I love it nonetheless

Should've had louder pipes.... they save lives.... like on a Harley.

ROFLOL ! ! ! Good one!

He did stop......in the path of the train.... SMH

@@josephwiese3937 R/woooosh

A train of 5 or so passenger cars going 5 miles an hour can stop pretty quickly. You can even see how fast it stopped after the collision.

Life is like a box of crackheads you never know what you're gonna get

Maybe it's that company that's "seen it all"

Yeah, sadly it's a long, lost practice.

People are stupid they think that they have priority that they shouldn't have to wait, gross tonnage always has the RIGHT OF WAY

now i cannot listen with my head phones on

X2

rarelibra God wins over train!

Gggggguu

"Gee who changed my ringtone to a train whistle??? Let me stop and figure this out.."

HAHAHAHAHA

james1787 HAHAHA! FUNNY! Glad 425 is fine. No one cares about the Chevy Suv.

Mototcyclists assume that they're invisible to car drivers, even with the extra assist of headlamps and safety vests. That assumption is not always correct, but often enough to matter. (Cyclists can do this as well, but because their acceleration and braking ability is more limited, they have fewer options for collision avoidance.) The two most common causes of motorcycle fatalities in the US are oncoming drivers turning left across the path of an oncoming bike, and drivers turning right to enter a principal street already occupied by a bike. The bike is directly in the field of vision of the driver in both cases. The reason for this "invisibility" is substantially psychological. Many drivers come to unconsciously think of vehicles as being either cars or trucks only. In that first fraction of a second before a collision may become unavoidable, they don't really register the motorcycle as a vehicle and take reflexive action.

...or at least make trains LARGE enough to be seen! It is sad when one can not see or hear something that big and that loud bearing down on them but then has the “presence of mind” to stop dead on the tracks directly in front of the train and wait for it to hit them. I wonder if the elderly couple were mad at the train engineer for having the audacity to hit them, surely he could have swerved around them! This reminds me of an accident I witnessed decades ago between an elderly couple that made a left turn directly into the path of an oncoming full size van and I had stopped as a witness and had to separate them from the innocent middle aged driver that hit them as the elderly couple were downright angry at the driver “who hit them” and trying to pick a fight despite the fact that they were the ones that made a sudden left turn directly into his path.

Too late for that now. 😶

I can't believe the engineer didn't blow the horn...

@@donmoore7785, luckily the horn blew itself.

Jaw Tooth... I don't believe that any genuine "rail fan" would be that Inattentive and stupid.

Hey shark lookin Jawtooth! You know what I mean 😁

You'd be amazed how loud a car stereo can be. Probably got annoyed with the many people watching, saw a hole in the crowd, floored it.

Idiot driver was probably texting. I'm glad there's no damage to the Steam Engine.

Jaw Tooth They had a tweet to finish. First things first.

Liberty Railfan reading & Northern fault would be completely determined by whether they had an appropriate Crossing warning system that was operating appropriately at that moment otherwise when a car pulls in front of a train or gets hit on a train track there is no question whatsoever at all in anyone's mind that the car was absolutely Beyond stupid

Great reference.

Laurence Oliveri “Whoever caused this disturbance will have me to answer to!!”

@@ITrooper089Productions and he did, A few days later.

Gordon had never heard the fat controller speak like that before. His driver and fireman had told him to never repeat those words. Gordon agreed with them, but he wasn't sure what a **** was.

And now Sir Topum hat has extra paperwork, vut at least Emily gets some overtime.

I don't want to rag on the poor guy, but of all the numbskulls to try that, a railroad worker!?! Seriously!?! Out of all the people, I would expect the lower echelons to know not to try something like that! Upper management is another story cause they are another level of stupid with their MBA's and whatnot. But a railroad employee? Shit, that mother made sheep look smarter than Einstein

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@Julian Moses I'm not saying we should kill all idiots. But maybe we should skip the warning labels...

Has nothing to do with the railroad crossing if somebody is this stupid they could cause a problem anywhere they go.

Chugga Chugga Beyotch

TGs Train Clips that’s what i was going to say

Ghost Dreams ...NO. The car is minus 11,000. DoLLaRs..that is

Mr. Mill

I still haven't seen a single car win a fight against a train.

The man's name was Roy and he was 74 years old.

Mark Gamblin well, out of everyone who stereotyped the driver saying he was Asian or female or Hispanic, you actually got it right. He was an older white male who said he didn't hear it coming.

@@jasonschaedler1257 And obviously did not SEE the train either. Old fart should have his license revoked.

@@jasonschaedler1257, yeah. But you know, people wish to see someone's sense of entitlement backfire on him. Or in this case it would have been her. But with some hapless grandfather they don't get to see that at all.

C3metal: Yeah, that's kinda what I thought as well. And ironically, he/she/it, whatever, will/probably collect out of court. Cheaper to shut 'em up with $$$'s, than to fight it for...who knows how long a "good" attorney could drag it out...?

Hopefully they got to pay for repairs to the train.

... Conrail cowcatcher?

@Abdul Zuher no when 425 & 2102 did mainline stuff in the 1980s Conrail required that both tenders have that big plate of steel which acts as a cow catcher on their tenders be added to push cars out of the way. This way cars didn't get caught into the tender trucks causing a derailment when tender first running.

The car was stationary at the time the collision happened.

Conrailfan2323 lol. Haha that'd funny.

Nobody's interested in what the car is doing. Everybody thinks the train is more interesting.

John Carlin The train engineer had to blow the whistle for the level crossing.

I thought the correct signal was two long and one short then a long during the actual crossing. Does it vary from state to state?

And That would be his only valid excuse.

In north America the trains here are larger

Maybe the driver has a death wish

Maybe the driver is a complete idiot.

Deer in the headlights syndrome ...

Robert Tarling because everyone goes to court over everything here. It's lawsuit lawsuit for anything someone doesn't like or anything someone thinks they can make a buck on.

Nasally voice IM GONNA SUE!! -slurps snot back into nose- ya hear me???

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It was actually the test run of the self-driving car.