Failed Railroad Track Crossing

skinnydaddy1says...

>> ^deathcow:

I can tell by your forehead that you drive FORD cars.


Used to have a 93 mustang. Till a soccer mom in an SUV pulled out in front of me and I nailed her. Airbag went off and instead of the plastic splitting for deployment the whole thing was ripped off. The force of the bag going off imprinted SRS and a little Mustang emblem from the plastic in to my forearm. To this day if I get a little sun or tan it shows up really bright.

Porksandwichsays...

If you watch the longer version of this video...I think this guy hit hard enough to trigger his fuel shut off. They are parked there for awhile and it looks like either someone is coming up to the vehicle or someone is getting in and out of it. And the truck keeps honking on it's own...either because of some sort of fuel problem or they shook a door open.

And it looks like there's 3-4 tracks. So it's like having 3-4 really close speed bumps and they launching off one to hit the side of another with their rear tires landing in between them making it even more jarring...so they probably can't help but hit the gas when they get jarred.

If it's like the way they do rail road track around here, they put space barriers on each side of the track so there's enough for the train wheel to fit between it at the block. Then they lay the asphalt up to the block so there's not a hard corner to wear down or pop tires. So the surface of the asphalt and the surface of the track are about level but the asphalt slopes up to and away from the tracks on both sides to return to roadway grade....probably for drainage reasons. And between the tracks is usually a treated wood or concrete gap space so there's not enough gap for wheels to drop down between the tracks when crossing them.

Can't imagine people don't recognize that as a railroad crossing considering the drop down bars and the Xing markings. Plus it has to look like a massive heaving in the ground when you drive up to it.

MaxWildersays...

I think you are right, Pork. The problem is that there are three or four tracks in a row. If it was just one, the idiot driver would get a jolt then continue on their oblivious and reckless way. But since the jolt from one sends them down into another and then another, it becomes destructive and very dangerous.

This is an issue the city needs to address, which I'm sure is why the youtube channel was set up.

ForgedRealitysays...

>> ^Raveni:

>> ^nock:
lol. Face -> horn -> face -> horn -> face.

That's actually the horn going off automatically when the airbags deploy.


There was no front-end impact. My airbag deployed a few months ago from the airbag control unit getting wet and shorting a circuit. The horn did not sound.

That was the last sign I needed to go buy a new car though...

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