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It was the car drivers fault. The train stopped as quickly as it could. I guess you don't know that it takes a while for something as heavy as a train to stop.
To be fair, he/she was not at fault really. Not as much as the thoughtful person in the white vehicle. Red vehicle was left with no where to go. A perfect storm essentially. Both vehicles should have been a bit wiser in this scenario.
They should eliminate the head-in parking and go to parallel parking on the street. That way there would be room for a lane in each direction even with a train there.
When the driver of the red truck made their left turn and saw the headlight of the oncoming train they should have stopped immediately and backed out of the street. That was the only safe course of action. No other decision would have resulted in a positive outcome. It's a train. Get out of the f'n way.
@@jacobanderson6551 "I would rather have my truck wrecked and risk dying or getting seriously injured when the street is completely empty on left side, even though my truck is already 95% on the left side of the road and people move over to the left on similar roads just to pass a bicycle."
The guy with the white truck that pulled out in front of the red car set it all in motion and the lady in the red car cannot reverse, should not be allowed on the road if you cannot reverse a vehicle, mind the drivers in that town are pretty awful
I like the idea that he thought that the brakes on his pickup truck would stop the train. Should be an automatic removal of drivers licensee, and a felony if caught driving again since they are a menace to society.
Great compilation! And…why do I get the sinking feeling that too many owners of "plus-sized" pickups have developed a sense of entitlement that rivals the size of their rides?
You’re 100% correct. These oversized trucks should require a special license and show need. They are dangerous to other drivers and pedestrians. They are often driven by people that can barely control them. Next time you’re out and about go nose to nose with one in a parking lot. The bumpers and the overall design would allow the pickup to drive over any car on the road.
@@railfanningpoints2.045 Considering I’ve almost been hit 5 times by these oversized pos. Oftentimes over the double yellows, in my lane coming at me. The drivers are brain dead.
The local council need to make that street one way. You can't fit on street car parking, two way traffic, and a freight train all at once down this busy street at times. Something has to give. In this case provision for vehicles is too much.
They don't make streets one way for the reasons you want them to be one way. Additionally, trains travel both ways, should the trains be prohibited from traveling back across their own route just because of one way sign? That would make no sense at all.
@@DarkVoidIII It's not a matter of which direction the train is going, it's a matter of making it so that there's just one lane of traffic, so that cars don't wind up trying to drive around each other like happened here. This street is just too narrow for parking on both sides, especially with perpendicular parking, and two lanes of traffic, AND train tracks.
I think when it comes to La Grange, the only possible solution would be to put crossing signals and or gates at all of the intersections. Granted, we’re dealing with humans here and some of them will just run the gates.
Wow! Its a street running train, how are you going to put a gate across the road the track travels down? How do you not know that the truck was not already between intersections, or just pulled out of one of the parking spots? Yes we are dealing with humans, apparently that's the reason for the above comment.
@@KARMA-vu8ii Relax Ron. Maybe he was talking about installing crossing gates at Walnut Ave. and 2nd Ave. in addition to the existing crossing arms on 1st Ave. Actually not a bad idea and would have at least stopped that pickup from entering the intersection. But nothing is guaranteed in todays world of impatient drivers.
Looks like "stand your ground" did not work out to well for the pick up truck. It appears the driver froze up and did not think to continue to reverse drive the truck to the intersection behind them. Brain freeze or anxiety-fear attack occurred.
It didn't work well for the engineer either...cause he had to do a lot of paperwork and stopped just a foot past the accident anyway. He just didn't want to stop...it is not that he couldn't stop.
1:35 - There's no crossing gates at the far intersection? Even so, that white pickup never should have turned and attempted to race the train down the street.
@@renegadetenor The white pickup driver actually made an illegal turn, and could be cited for two moving violations according to Kentucky motor vehicle laws. That white truck should not have been where it was, and endangered others for its reckless negligence.
It was initially caused by the white truck who jumped in with a train in sight, but contributing negligence. The red truck crossed into that zone before the arms came down and the train was not visible as he came past the buildings. The red truck's lane was the tracks, so the driver went left, assuming a counter space on the left (they likely couldn't swing that monster in anyway with one move)...instead of just backing out of the situation immediately. If the red truck driver could have backed straight for 100 feet then they'd avoid the train. Obviously from my wife's tribe who can't back straight for more than two feet without starting into a circle. The locomotive engineer likely could have stopped. He stopped just a couple of feet later after hitting the truck...so he was playing king of the hill chicken. This one was a three way.
What happened at La Grange doesn't surprise me. I drive with people like that every day when driving to work in KY. Glad the driver is safe and hopefully has learned a valuable life lesson--Trains rule.
Everyone blaming the red truck basically doesn't understand how this road works. He makes the turn here before any warning lights come on at the 1:33 mark. You can see by the other cars at the end of this street the direction his travel lane is supposed to be is on the tracks. Doing the only thing other than attempting to go in reverse which would still have been difficult, he goes to the left of the tracks where there is room until the white truck runs those lights and basically messes up the red truck's route. At that point, there's panic and it all goes down hill from there. They need to eliminate the parking on the right side and make that the travel lane for cars heading away from the camera, leave the other side the way it is as the angled parking is easier to pull in and out of without blocking too much of the roadway.
0:10 GP60M, BN green SD40-2, and SD60M triple heading through Parkville 0:20 and an H2 Dash 9 triple header in Galesburg! (with some three-axle military vehicles in its consist) 1:40 a guy runs in front of the train just before it hits the red pickup truck! They should really get rid of parking on this street as that other car could've went into a building! 8:14 hi-rail truck pulling ballast hoppers 8:32 SP gray on a K&O train (leading at 14:44) 9:24 Amtrak 160 "Pepsi" on the Southwest Chief 10:00 KCT SW1500 switching some old BNSF hoppers, some are still painted for ATSF and BN 11:04 SC44 and P42 doubleheading on a 4-car Midwest train! 11:24 600-series warbonnet with a bunch of Xs on it 12:52 they're seriously going to tear down these old buildings?! I thought this camera would help save them!
Every railfan who live in the U.S.A. must think its like living in Paradise. All trains different sizes carrying all kinds of different loads. Something we NEVER see in Britain.
Here is a thought about La Grange. Just abandon the quiet zone between 0800 and 2200. A lot of these incidents would not happen if the drivers heard the horn before entering the block.
If the other truck hadn't pulled around the corner they would have made it... They knew they were in trouble once that happened !!! Bummer for all involved, including the train.
I think the truck driver just got nervous and blanked out. Lord knows I would be if a whole train was right in front of me. That was a freaky accident 😳
I remember seeing Russian train crews dealing with cars parked too near their right-of-way. They are making comments about the idiot who put it there and say now you are going to get it. They just smash the vehicles and keep on going. The trains are going to make schedule whether you are on the tracks or not.
Train goes the other way just as often as this way. It's a two way track, not one way. Your solution would only help 50% of the time. And that's assuming that drivers wouldn't just stop in front of the train anyway.
Why do they have tracks and streets running together? I know that it's not likely they put tracks in the middle of the street because usually the tracks were there first and the town grew up around them. What I don't understand is , when the town and streets were being laid out, why didn't they keep the tracks as a dedicated corridor and put streets parallel to them? It seems like that would have made a lot more sense and been safer.
@@OkieOtaku I think both trucks had enough time to make it through that block if they weren't facing each other. A one way street would take away one variable from a messed up equation. I'm definitely not for getting rid of the train, since I like these historic reminders of a simpler time in our history.
At this time, the best remedy is to remove the parking on this block of the street. That would be somewhat of a hardship but would allow enough room for auto and train traffic to pass safely. If there was a reasonable way to bypass downtown the railroad would take it. There are a number of locations that cities and railroads have worked together to remove train traffic off the downtown streets.
The guy in the red truck was still on the wrong side of the street. Besides that, as soon as he started down the street he should have saw the train, but he kept going. Not sure where he thought he was going to go.
Admittedly this was the faulty of some pretty bad driving, however as a UK resident, it never ceases to amaze me that trains and cars are able to come in to such intermate contact. There is nowhere in the UK where trains, vehicles and for that matter people, can interact so intimately. It seems inherently dangerous to me.
Not any more in the UK, but there used to be quite a few. Industrial lines round Manchester, Liverpool, East London, and of course the famous Weymouth Quay branch.
@@jackieheidorn5875 Jackie, thanks for that little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is American Railroads to overseas viewers. Until now I assumed 'Heritage' meant former railroads in the current one's history. I am enlightened.
I know this is an old video but I just caught it. Something needs to be done about LaGrange. Either restrict parking to one side of the road only or reconstruct the parking, get rid of slanted parking.
That La Grange street arm needs to come down sooner but that said, some vehicle is an idiot there at least weekly. That red pickup driver experienced serious brain lock since that was so easily avoidable. Right before the train hits it, you see the driver actually start to drive towards the train. Yeah buddy, the train will will swerve first.
I can't believe the RED TRUCK actually hit the brakes when the train hit him! Good grief, as if that's going to stop a TRAIN! As long as no one was injured...LOL! Thank you for caring and sharing...great video, as usual!
I laugh when the driver of the red pickup realised at the last moment he was going to be hit by the train what does he do? PUTS HIS FOOT ON THE BRAKES. Yes like that was going to work.
