"The incredible event happened on Nov. 5, but Poland's national railway company only released the video Wednesday as "a lesson in how not to cross the tracks", said Miroslaw Siemieniec, a spokesman for Polskie Koleje Panstwowe,
The cyclist escaped with only minor injuries and a $180 fine from police for ignoring the red light and boom gate the railway crossing, Siemieniec said.
The train was delayed for 40 minutes as a result of the accident, Siemieniec added"
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HAHA, god was smiling on that fool
Unfortunately I was returning from Chicago to Detroit and just east of Jackson we hit and killed a young boy on a bike... very sad, he never saw it coming....
People on foot, too, as a guy recently got schwacked by an Amtrak train for doing the same thing in Tacoma.
The only thing missing in each case is the Road Runner running up, stopping, going, "Meep Meep!" then tearing off down the road!
I've seen some brutal (i.e. obviously fatal) car-vs-pedestrian/bicycle collisions on YouTube (that haven't yet been taken down because they were posted in Russian and thus don't show up on English-language searches)
In every case the person who got hit DID NOT look anywhere but STRAIGHT AHEAD as they walked/ran/rode into the intersection against the light. I am not surprised this happens at grade crossings.
--PCJ
In Tarentum, Pa. a few years ago when it was double track a motorcycle blew past cars siting at crossing gates and got hit by a train going the other way. I heard that there was Harley Davidson pieces all over the place. the biker was killed. Oh well!!
I drive. When I get out of my car, I do not turn into a "pedestrian", as many seem to at malls, such as in the case when you are trying to back out of parking, with a billboard sized SUV on each side, and some turkey with Walmart tunnel vision walks behind you. Having the right of way demands the pedestrian's attention, too, for self preservation. In a car, I have had people shoot backwards out of a parking space without, apparently, looking, as I was driving down the rows, one hit my rear fender once, but they had insurance. As for railroads, because you do not OFTEN see a train, does not mean you will NEVER see a train. (that big yellow light filling your whole car for a second, will not be the moon) A few years ago, while hunting a place for dinner, I had an "adult" on a bicycle crash into the side of my car, and do a barrel roll across the hood, dragging his bicycle, to land directly in front of my car, uninjured, but only because I was standing on my brakes. His bicycle was totaled, I had an uninsured (by him) sheet metal fix. Cops and he (not to mention, I) agreed it was his fault, for cutting between cars.
Here's another incident in Poland. Not involving high-speed trains, but still, you wonder what the cyclist was thinking:
---PCJ
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