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Shocking! Another Car on the Tracks in Ashland
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2018
- This one was a nail biter, with a southbound train approaching. Thankfully, the crew was alerted to the vehicle and came to a complete stop in time. Elderly couple from out of town on a rainy night, big mistake!
They keep this up, the town will be called “Crashland”.
Destroyerland
LOL
Probably is unofficially
Dumbashland gets my vote!!
@@Karrguy1973 sounds way better
Amazing that that big train actually stopped so far from the car! Kudos to the engineer for seeing the problem and getting it stopped in plenty of time.
It was called in in time. If the engineer only knew about it from seeing it, there's no way he'd stop in time. Train that big can take a mile or more to stop
I’ll bet his GPS told him to turn left and he believed it.
An easy mistake to make, poorly designed intersection. And why do they keep the drop off there instead of feathering it so a vehicle can get out of harms way? Money, plain and simple, just like a spiders web! Someday somebody is going to get killed and sue the city and railroad.
@I_G6 There family might bro
@I_G6 He might not have meant it like that
@I_G6 .....No, not the dead person but whoever else legally can....will absolutely file suit----spouse, children, or sibling of the deceased.
@@LachlanKellett MYOB
Seriously, this is like the third video I've seen at this crossing where the driver just takes a hard left onto the tracks. What's up with this place?
I think it's a glitch . i just hope they will fix it in the next update
Buynot maybe they just are not that smart in Ashland
Bad weather, dark, raining, it's a somewhat complex junction and the crossing doesn't have good lighting. Difficult to see the difference between the rails and the road at ground level in those conditions.
Stuck on not-smart
Crazy drivers?
How many people near the start went: 'Noooo, reverse, reverse!' and then: 'No, you need to get a really good run-up in reverse' lol
Right! I kept saying FLOOR IT!! I almost got up outta my seat and crawled into my TV to do it myself😂
@@kylebarrett4721 Hahahaha, I feel ya
Regardless of cause, outcome etc. It makes for a terrific piece of night time drama, dark night, raining, all lights flashing and reflecting on the wet blacktop, yeah a very pretty picture.
They should put a lip on the asphalt so people can back up off the tracks.
Might be a better idea to do something to stop them driving on in the 1st place???
@@missg3188 Obviously, but having some temporary bandaid solution is better than nothing at all. Same reason why airplane bathrooms have places to dispose of cigarettes even though everyone and their mothers tells you not to smoke on an airplane. Better to get caught smoking and have a place to safely get rid of it than to just toss it somewhere and risk a fire starting.
@@missg3188 Like a curb low enough for the train to clear and high enough to keep drivers from turning in the wrong place.
The gravel bed is too low, making the rails stick up too high to get vehicles off the tracks.
Yeah I agree that’s called foul prove
Dude is from out of town and needed so REAL help. Good thing someone told the driver GET OUT OF THE CAR!
Ashland, Viginia. A neverending delight, thanks for all the fun you had for us - and dare you to modify this crossing!
Sink yellow reflective bollards into the pavement between the tracks at least. Then retest every driver that does this, in order to regain their license.
Nope. Let natural selection Cull the Herd.
@@SPUPRR Think before you speak! This was an elderly couple, their days of having children are long gone. And why would you suggest we treat people like animals?
Yup I was thinking reflective flexible plastic bollards should do the trick.
In wet weather there are quite a few places where it's difficult to see where the left turn starts. Part is poor marking by the DOT.
also make them retake this new and improved intersection and see if the measures help
Stuck on track with a train coming? Better stay in the car!
+Victoria Doss I'm sure he's just kidding,LOL!
@Victoria Doss that went way over your head.
And ignore the rearview mirror. It is not real.
@Victoria Doss Really?
Danny don’t die duh 🙄 you get out and run
This level crossing is the bread and butter of that channel : P
There was a crossing in Mineola along the LIRR that had this same problem, road that was right next to the tracks, and people turned on to the tracks, thinking they turned onto the road. The Long Island Railroad put up Delineators in between the tracks, to stop people from doing this, and so far, it seems to be working.
Freedomtower Studios they’ve done that for all rail crossings on the LIRR system. The only issue myself and others find with the LIRR approach is that it doesn’t fix the problem which is motorists blinded by gps systems and lacking some basic common sense at a very bad time.
Those white delineator poles will quickly become a liability when the next train versus car happens and they’re turned into projectiles.
People who can’t tell the difference between a road and a railroad track or a road and a sidewalk need to be taken out of society.
I drove on the road between the city of Naples and Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 2006,and I remember there being a rail track running next to that some of the way,though I wasn't sure how active with trains it still was if at all. There was at least one stretch where it was all too easy to drive along the track,and I may have done so.
Figured a NY driver would think he can go wherever he wants.
That figures.
or a Chicago driver
...here we go again! ...wow...glad the train was creeping instead of cruising...then again, the engineers probably have a "bad drivers" crossing sign a quarter mile up the track to prepare them for the freights...and for amtrak, probably a 2 mile warning sign...lol! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Glad everyone was safe, and no engines were hurt during this video. 😊👌🏾
they all probably have binoculars and peer far ahead whenever the tracks are straight
luv how every one is so patience and helpful .
Glad everyone is safe. Thank you for the young man to get them out safely.
It's an offence called 'driving without due care and attention'.
The railroad prob sent him a big bill for stopping the train
Seems like that crossing needs some reflective sticks and more barricades around the crossing to help prevent the cars from confusing the tracks as the road.
Or more aware drivers
More like drivers with brains and eyes. That crossing is lit well enough that you can see the tracks clearly, plus all the signage telling you it's a RR crossing ! If anything the driver should be sent for a full test to see if they're competent enough to drive, and their license should be suspended til that happens......
The crossing is inactive, its devices do not stand out much, I do not see strikingly visible warning signals to the left and right of the crossing, actually none on the left. With intense rain and near-darkness, road markings are hard to see, and with light reflections on them, practically impossible. So again, this crossing can benefit from better signalling, which should still be possible within such little room.
@@Halberdin Especially if the driver is head-up-a$$.
Given the dark and the rain, I can't blame the driver much. Especially since headlights point forward, not off to the sides. I can't imagine any engineer signing off on the design of that crossing.
Rain and unfamiliar area can be disorienting.
"One of these days, one of these days. POW! Right on the kisser!" thought the engineer as he creeps through the little fog and on his way.
One of these days Alice!!!
Ashland never disappoints!
It's a small town north of Richmond. I've driven through and stopped there many times going to NC, SC, and GA. Very laid back. This is probably the most excitement they ever get!
Should fill that area in with rock or something so there is no drop off. Then if a car does turn onto the tracks, will be easier to get out, saving tons of time and making it less dangerous.
Rather than filling the area with rock to make a ramp, a better idea would be not driving onto train tracks.....
LTD347 Ah, but that's not gonna stop happening though. Some people are just bad drivers. Easier to do something to make recovering these stuck vehicles faster and safer than not do anything at all.
Yep, remove their licence.....
@ George H The towing company needs to make money! I'm sure that costs a couple hundred just to get them out....plus they probably also own a garage/repair shop. I can see under carriage damage being done.
That's a business for the tow truck driver
How about sloping the road edge so people can back out of their mistake?
a great idea and elegant solution, too a problem that could cost lives, not to mention the inconvenience to rail users, and financial loss to railroad if there is a fatality
I was thinking the same thing but the best bet is to just exit the vehicle and alert authorities it's not worth even trying to move the vehicle.
They might get hit by a train while attempting to back out of their mistake. If you find yourself stuck on the tracks, first thing is to get out! Next, call the phone number on the small sign attached to the crossing sign post. Let the railroad know you are stuck, and give them the location ID number on the sign so they know where you are. They will stop all trains so you won’t get hit! Now that you are out of danger, you can deal with your car without the mind-altering stress of thinking a train might come at any moment.
Can hardly believe that the train could stop with no more warning than that! When the video jumped to the police arriving, I was like, "What happened with the TRAIN?!!!!"
I had done that once before in a different crossing when snow made it hard to see the road. Luckily the police pulled it out with their SUV. God bless the police and the Engineer for stopping his train.
GPS said: *GeT StuCk ON TRaCkS NoW*
The train driver and the bystander were the heroes in this situation.
Is there a bar just up the street from the tracks?
Haha
The Trackside Grill is just up the street, serves drinks and by the way is a GREAT place to have dinner!
You do have to account for people who are not acquainted with the area. If a church van or visiting school bus with a team or fans were to get stuck and many kids killed, the state or federal government would step in and that would be the end of the tracks through Ashland.
It looked like the driver tried to back up but the drop-off was too great and he couldn't get back up on the road. A first simple fix would be to make the drop-off more of a slant.
That makes too much sense doesn't it.
This is why I have all the railroad emergency numbers on speed dial when im watching trains in my hometown
Actually not a bad idea. I've had to call dispatch before when a crossing was down due to a short circuit and people were going around it on a rainy night. They appreciated someone actually telling them.
That escalated quickly. Got intense for a few moments.
Why not have an incline for incidents like this from the gravel to the blacktop?
It might make it difficult to maintain the gravel properly?
Entertainment purposes I'm guessing
This is America here. More likely nobody wants to pay tax dollars to drop in a few hundred bucks worth of concrete or asphalt.
@@babybirdhome wouldn't be tax dollar money spent. Railroads pay for the crossing, and railroads are privately owned.
Rail companies famously never spend more than they absolutely have to on their tracks. My partner's brother works for the MN DNR. The rail companies that run through MN never bother to clear any of the brush near the tracks. It's cheaper for them to just pay the fine when their trains inevitably start a wildfire. It's the same sort of logic even on this track. The only way they'll pay to put an incline in is if someone gets hit and they get sued - and even then the person suing them would have to demonstrate liability and that the rail company (is it CSX that owns this track?) knew it's a problem and a safety hazard and didn't do anything about it.
That car was incredibly lucky the train was able to stop in time
I felt so relieved when I saw the train had stopped back yonder.
people have do be doing it purposely to get featured here now
Probably lol cause this crossing has been filmed at so many times so its probably famous for people crashing lol
Looks like car has a NYS license plate. Probably an out-ot-towner unfamiliar with the area.
that is new York license plates probably bill de blasio out looking for votes and made a wrong turn ...
People who are that incompetent shouldn't even be allow *near* a car, let along sitting behind the wheel
Darn New Yorkers!
Its not New York,
There's so much WOW in this footage. Wow! Who notified the train engineer ahead of time? Wow! How'd Virtual Railfan get so many camera angles? Wow! Is the dumbing down of America finally complete? If so, the railroads might need to provide a concrete ramp of sorts so cars can at least easily backup back onto the street. Unless it's a 4x4, it seems impossible for a regular car to get free from most tracks w/o add'l help. Wow! Thank goodness this ended well & hats off to all who cared, the person making the alert call & the person w/the umbrella getting the people out of the car.
LOL a ramp on the railroad crossing
+SGT Ghost
Haha, let me explain my version of a ramp. When a car goes over a track at the intersection, the track is pretty level to the road and isn't an obstacle, maybe just a small bump. But when a car makes a bad turn, it is between the tracks. If there was a tapered portion of concrete/asphalt going from level ground up to the road, it becomes wedge shaped, thus a ramp. The car could just back up 'the ramp' back onto the road. That was the MacGuyver solution with the wood, providing the height needed to get back on the road.
This could be fixed in a dream world we don't live in hehe. When our infrastructure is to the point that dams are busting, plus this isn't something that happens very often @ train crossings, we're left with crossing our fingers or a hope or a prayer :)
I get your idea, but its useless. Someone in America get hit or killed by train. trains don't stop on a dime. Just follow the simple rule, Don't stop on the tracks, beat the train, or going into the tracks.
A ramp is an invitation to drive down it. As it is, there is no road (ramp) visible, and with the diagonal pavement markings, that should be a clue there is no road there.
One day I'm going to go to Ashland and drive my car right down the middle of those tracks just so I can get on this channel, I'll be the guy waving at the camera.
*after watching this* Waiting for the next car on the tracks
EdgarTheRailfanner should be soon. Don't wait to long
The car driver must have had real panic .... He can be glad that the passersby were so attentive, and the guy got out of the car and warned that a train is coming ... The whole thing could have ended much worse
New York license plate. What a surprise.
I was watching this live laying in bed and then decided to go to sleep. I didn't get to see the train to go through
Thank goodness for the guy who yelled at them to get out of the car. It really looked like they weren't going to... He had to keep screaming at them.
👋🥵 “Officer! My car is stuck on the rails! I’m trying to remove it - before the train comes!”
✋😏 “No need to panic, Sir... The train will remove it for you.....”
I have driven through Ashland over that crossing more than 40 times and BEFORE THAT ROAD was reconfigured it was easy to see and avoid this - now? Not so much.
Even with all the upgraded road markings that guide folks around the tracks, they still can't avoid the hard left to find themselves stuck between the rails.
What scares me is if they can't see something as obvious as the lack of road, what chance have they got of seeing a stop sign at an intersection, or a red light... They shouldn't be driving.
Xaiano bingo!
Gee. You’d think they’d keep “track” of this. :)
I like your style. And your train of thought. I know there are folk who will say you are loco, though
Michael MacDonell hahaha! Thanks!
They need to “train” drivers better.
No way! This is like the 5th time this happened! How does this happen so much!? Is this on purpose or something!?
Don't underestimate the power of human stupidity. That's a guaranteed way to lose.
@@killman369547 I’m with you on the human stupidity part. Anyone with two brain cells to synapse together would recognize what a disaster this intersection is and fix it so it isn’t so prone to failure. The money wasted on unnecessary and preventable emergency responses to things like this are an outrageous waste.
The culprit is the design of that crossing. The lack of clearer markings of the road through and past the RR Right of Way.
The guy who yelled at them to get out of the car - a real hero here. I'm not so sure these folks were swift enough to understand the trouble they were in. Thank goodness for the yelling guy,
It's a so called Charles Darwin crossing.
The road striping on that crossing should be changed to OSHA yellow and black to signify caution and red reflectors should be installed along the road edge.
That's one of the worst corners I've ever seen. For people who are not familiar with that corner, especially on a rainy night like this, you're taking your life in your hands when you need to make a turn.
judging how the rear tires contacted the pavement when the driver backed up slowly...i would have had that car off the tracks faster than he got that sucker wedged between them.
12 minutes for a freakin' tow truck!? Up here in Canada they are significant portion of the Gross Domestic Product and arrive within one minute. The cops about 6 minutes.
This happens weekly. The problem is with the intersection, and not just with the drivers. It's fun to hand out "Darwin Awards" to strangers, but come on, the town and the railroad need to address this.
If you open your eyes while driving you won't get into this situation.
Some people never make mistakes. Most of us do.
Not sure why you think the intersection is such a problem. Looks pretty simple to me....they even have hatched markings on at least one side of the crossing.
Not sure where you think the sarcasm is?
NY plate explains everything
the railway should charge the driver for the delay of the train they do that here in australia teach the drivers responsibility for there actions
I'm not sure that will work. In my home state of California you Caltrain (local train service). Folks instead of properly exiting the trains and using the appropriate crosswalks will use the emergency gates to cross the tracks. Even when the train is coming. If caught it's $500 fine and two points on your license
I don't believe it's always the drivers fault. Accidents frequently have multiple causes combined. This particular crossing already has a number of accidents in it. Maybe reflective pavement markers could help here?
they should charge people tripping on stairs, will teach them not to walk carelessly
DUH, Ossifer, Honest, I really only had two beers!
They really need to come up with some type of system where there is like a flashing light on the rail when a train isn't going by or like a gate there when there isn't a train going by as well. Some system to keep cars going on there.
Can't fix inattentiveness
Who in their right mind drives from the right lane into a dark abyss? If you're lucky, it's a median. A common street design. It could have been a canal. Going too fast for conditions, not in the left turn lane to begin with, and oblivious to visible pavement markings. In an unfamiliar town.
Just wait 'til you're old and have night blindness or have had cataract surgery. Yes, he should have done all that but that's why they call it an accident.
Never driven into train tracks myself, but once i drove into tram rails and tram stop which were separated from the street. I was driving a taxi back then, it was night, I was tired and not paying enough attention so I can kind of relate to this situation.
If you find yourself in this kind of predicament, stuck on tracks in any situation, immediately look for a small blue sign posted at the grade crossing (at US crossings, it is a blue background with white lettering). They're often on the crossbucks and sometimes on a separate post. There's a toll-free 800 number for the railroad (usually that particular railroad's police dispatch) and the exact location of the crossing (every point on a railroad has specific names to avoid confusion). You still risk being hit, especially if it is a busy line, but you give yourself and any approaching train a fighting chance to avoid a collision.
This is good example of why we should retest for driver's licenses periodically, regardless of age (then come up with real deterrents to driving suspended/revoked). I drive for a living and drivers nationwide become less and less proficient with every year that passes.
In the USA, at crossings that have flashing red lights, a lot of times the 800 number and crossing location are painted on the silver box next to the track, that contains the electronics for the flashing lights.
They should ramp the ballast up to the street level so cars/trucks can back out instead of having to bring out a tow truck. It won't encourage people to turn wrong, but will expedite recovery.
I'm just wondering if some of those reflectors used flush on highway roads could be put along the edges of each side of the road to help give an extra visual warning and if it would help.
Looks like this place is juicy for people to get into the train tracks!
Have the road where the guy is trying to back up be a slope so he can get out and not be stuck.
Hard to tell on a rainy night but it doesn't look like a whole lot of room for error on that side of the road like the other side. Once you're off the road there's no going back!
One time a year ago Ashland made it an entire day without a collision.
Ashland could use the type of crossing gates that they have at some crossings in the UK that swing 90 degrees instead of going up and down, so when they open they block the tracks.
Wow.There Are No Gate Man. Really Awesome. Love From Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
This happened last night. Word spread fast on the other cams, and Ashland viewership spiked.
Look at the date at the top of the video, it happened June 7th.
Cheyenne Chey the dates listed on VRF cameras are in American format of yyyy/mm/dd, so it’s July 6th.
Very lucky guy. The rate situation where the train is going slow enough that it can stop before it hits you. Plus steel wheels on steel tracks as it is raining. Think about the lack of friction present. Any faster the train would of hit the car by going at least 15 mph faster I think
oh my goodness ..hope the trains not coming!...........and alls well ..lovely train
1:40 - that sounds like an off duty first responder. Well done sir, I would have done the exact same thing.
GET OUT NOW>>>
"My GPS said..."
Is that the same car with the previous one that drove onto the tracks?
The roadway through the RR Right of Way should have a centerline marking. I don't see markings at all.
That's not to excuse the drivers inattention, but some markings would help during adverse weather conditions....like rain.
A way out of this predicament would help, also....like an asphalt or concrete ramp to back out of that ditch?
Such things happen. Very rainy nights are stressful in unfamiliar areas. Too many shadows, glare, odd reflections all contribute to disorientation. During a downpour, a driver coming east on my street wound up steering into a parked car. Otherwise, there was enough lighting and leeway on either side under dry nighttime conditions.
Why couldn't you finish the video of the train.
Again, when the car said:🚗💨⬅️⬅️⬅️ I felt that
I live 8 miles from this intersection, and have been through it, at all hours, hundreds of times. There’s no excuse for missing this turn.
Next time I want to see a crossroads right behind a bridge where the drivers decide to turn a bit earlier.
This seems to be a chronic problem in Ashland. They have more people on the tracks that anyplace I have ever seen.
I hope the driver got a ticket and had the drivers license revoked.
Hello from the UK. This is the second video that I have watched where a car turns left and onto the track in exactly the same spot. Is there something inherently badly designed about the crossing? This was a much more lucky outcome. However, watching them get the car back onto the crossing, you can see that the driver was never going to be able to reverse back onto the road.
Just need to put delineator posts between the tracks like we do here in Bartlett Ill.. Duh.
Almost as ridiculous as the 11'8" bridge down in Durham (which has been raised, incidentally--no more videos of trucks having their roofs sheared off).
@aAaa aAaa I have seen overpasses on I-26 near where I live raised with jacks. I think the bridge was raised in the same way. I, too, remember reading what you said about it not being possible to raise it. I got many a chuckle watching the tops being sheared off Penske rental trucks and others. Wonder how many trucks Penske has left?
@aAaa aAaa They modified the structure of the bridge, the rail line wasn't actually raised (nor the road lowered). And it's still low enough to cause some chops (12'4").
Oh it’s still choppin people!
They are still hitting it.
Officer: Have you been drinking?
Driver: No, but I'm going to start after I get my car out of this!!
That driver has caused confusion and delay, said Sir Topham Hatt
Its looking much better now and safer!
Lesson learned. Never turn early in the tracks.
Having a small kerb in between the tracks painted yellow might help. Theres also enough room for a small sign.
WOW !! Life is just too complicated for some people. Did he have to take his driving test again ?
In my state (CA) people of a certain age have to take the complete driving test every year. I think it's age 70.
Best way to change car before the lease ends.
The police should take his drivers licence. I mean, come on, the marking on the road is clearly visible, the place is very well lit, and in the rain the tracks shine like new jewelry. How on earth can you miss that? Yeah, by doing things that has nothing to do with driving the car.
Touche' .. I wonder if CSX will be filing a complaint to the village because the train was stuck at the crossing for more than 10 minutes due to street traffic? LOL
I wonder if the combination of weather conditions and light reflecting off the top surface of the tracks confused the driver in to thinking it was a lane marker. Then in there confusion accidentally following it.