Yup, I had a near miss with a lorry head on, a stupid over-take on a hot day, the car wobbled as i whipped it in just missing the lorry. Absolutely shat myself. Just to get home from work 1 minute earlier, I risked my life and never seeing my wife and son again...
cool, i knew he did some tv stuff before the slo mo guys because he said so in a video once but never realised he did this and never knew what stuff he had done
I swear it appears almost nobody understands that this segment is comedy, despite having a valid point about not blowing through railway crossings. Can nothing be both serious and funny?
Network Rail approached Top Gear (when the audience was wider and content better) and requested them to do a piece on level crossings. Clarkson does it in his own unique way. Comedy aside the picture speaks for itself. An Austrian car program, I think, tried to do something similar but without the comedy and it wasn't the same. Out of the two videos this sticks in my mind more. Re-watching it, it doesn't look like the air bags were able to deploy. Or at least not so you could see. And that, arguably, sticks out the most. There are plenty of videos showing vehicle train collisions at level crossings. None that I have seen show the same amount of detail in the same way that this one does.
Sadly it's because the one they used on Top Gear where Jeremy rolled it oh so many times was modified to roll more with weights in the body panels and suspension tweaks
Well it certainly would have had it passed the railroad crossing - there was a very sharp corner directly after it. Lucky for the driver the train realized it and gunned it to save him!
Indeed, that was filmed directly outside my house, they've fitted barriers but they didn't stop someone crashing into them and trashing their Focus. Bloody old people.
its actually a phenomenon on older computers where they showed blue as red and red as blue, i might be missing the garbage joke you made, but still an interesting fact
My high visibility jacket saved me from a car crash, house fire, lightning strike, cancer, bullet wound, shark attack, and a meteor falling on me. Remember, your safety is your number one priority, wear a high visibility jacket.
@@zacharyjudkins9191 A normal commuter train can take up to a mile to perform an emergency stop and if its raining you are just fucked. Train drivers who do have incidents like that are given paid time off and if it happens enough they are able to retire on full pay because of the trauma at least in the UK they are I know a train driver who works for Northern rail.
@@coyotem3a1 Yup. Even though we have those, idiots still put their lives at risk. Personally, I enjoy a proper Yodelalarm. That's what the beepers are called. A Safetran E-Bell is also very appealing.
Which is why Network Rail asked Top Gear to do this (it was carried out at a NR testing site). There are a lot of young-middle age drivers who will jump crossings. Many may watch Top Gear and will be more interested and more engaged and take more notice of Clarkson doing a 5 minute level crossing safety clip (Clarkson-style) than listening to a 30 second message by Network Rail.
wow, That was pretty insane. I never ever would run a crossing even if i had to. that is so stupid putting your life at risk for what? saving 2 minutes?
The Doctor absolutely! I totally understood sarcasm, but what they were trying to point out is that it does kill lots of people each and every year. and I was saying how silly to risk your life to safe a couple minutes.
+Der Bleifuss I dropped my 3410 out of a second floor window once onto the driveway to see what would happen. Phone split into 3 pieces (As it is designed to). I then slotted it back together again (as it is designed to). Difference - 1 single crack accross the screen (and I literally mean crack, not the smash and broken screens you seem to see with every other iphone), a bit chipped on one side and it makes a buzzing when on charge. Still made/recieved calls and texts. The current Nokia 3303i or something like that I dropped while cycling and a car ran over it meaning the liquid crystal in the screen broke. Got it fixed and its still working. Maybe thats why Nokia went out of business...no one needed to buy a new Nokia as the old ones were still working!
The REAL message is if you get hit by a high speed train at a RR crossings & get dragged 100+ yards away from the crossing you are only one thing: Dead.
+Castletorch It was extra ballast piled up to slow the engine, which was unmanned and had no brakes. The big job was actually sweeping it up; none needed to be relaid.
@@railfangraham4182 The loco doing the impact had no crew and the engine was not running with the brakes 'off', You can see earlier in the vid that it was being propelled up to speed by a second loco which then slowed while the first loco freewheeled into the car. I would guess this was the reason it took a while to stop after impact as no one was applying a brake
@@andybuckley9223 train brakes are applied when brake line loses its pressure. This line could be damaged on impact. And I think crane in cab could be left slightly opened, so engine started to slow down after decoupling. P.S. It's really dangerous to left 100 t "ram" with no brakes
Thanks to Top Gear I have worn a high visibility jacket whilst driving since 2007. Even though there are no trains in my country, you can never be too safe.
My father has worked for Canadian Pacific Railway, both as a civil engineer and learning locomotive engineering as well (or train driver as some call it) When he was learning, he very nearly hit someone who was in the middle of the crossing. Thankfully they moved in time, but despite being in full emergency braking, he was still going somewhere around 35 miles an hour and likely would've killed the person in the car. He's said to me that if that happened, he would've been questioning himself for the rest of his life. He's shown me dashcam footage from a train that nearly killed two workers that were clearing snow off the tracks, because they hadn't gotten track protection (both barely escaped with their lives) and you can hear the loco engineer calling into RTC, and you can tell how stressed and worried he is by the belief that he had just taken a life. I've worked on a construction site right next to rail tracks, when a train was going by we had to stop work so protection could be removed, because we were technically foul of track. You just don't mess with trains, 2 tons of easily crumplable steel or aluminium vs 20 thousands tons of hard steel has a pretty obvious outcome
**Shows the van** In this corner, the challenger! **Shows the train** And in this corner, the reigning champion for as long as automobiles have been a thing!
If anyone want's to know, the locomotive that hit that poor car is a Class 31, numbered 31 107. Owned by Network Rail and fitted with a reinforced front end.
Ross Mingay I can provide an answer. At 2:50, you can see a second class 31 (of which I can't indentify) coupled behind 31 107. In the shot you speak of, the other unidentified '31' has (for some reason) detached. I hope this answers your question.
What and you think that a normal trains front WOULD FOLD IN? Doubt it. You ever seen them apart? I've seen them with the heads off the V12 diesel rebuilding the engine. Damn big engine.
No sweat, they just called Gary and Bob, poured some recycled gravel and ran few freighters thru, to check the straightness... whole deal was within the fiver.
I'd say a fair bit...the car rips into the shoulders of the ballast quite aggressively. But earlier in the video the track looks like it needs a bit of work anyway as the rail has a bit of mud spots and sunken
I doubt it cost the BBC anything. The BBC probably only paid for the TV part of the video; the staging and clear-up was probably paid for by Network Rail. Given how much "real" incidents like this cost, they probably considered it good value as a means of discouraging future incidents. They probably did it on a section of track that was due to be re-ballasted anyway.
I’ve been told that on day 1 of train engineer/driver school you get told that you *will* kill someone one day, it probably won’t be your fault, but if you aren’t prepared for that, this job isn’t for you.
Everyone for your concern about the snail and car is that no snails or other animals were harmed in the process of making this video the snail was on other track enjoying his/her life.But sadly the van wss harmed and did not make it during the process of video... Youre welcome for the info.. Have a great day!! Edit:Also train did have damage but minor not major the train is ok 👌...
@@startrekwarsmixguy Driving on the right side has a lot of benefits. For example are most people (even in england) right handed. That means its easier for them To switch gears with their right hand or using the Navigation-System or Radio. Furthermore you are better at guessing distances on your right side as a right-handed Person.That means you can get closer to the right side of the road without leaving it than on the left lane. Even putting your Seatbelt on is faster if you sit on the left. Producing Cars with steering wheel on the left is cheaper as they sell much better around the globe There are some minor or bigger advantages in driving on the right road as a right handed Person. As 9 out of 10 people are right handed it would be better to switch. In addition the entire world has right road traffic. Why would you still stick on left road traffic?
I find it impossible for a person not to hear a 210 Db triple note locomotive klaxon that can be heard for a whole mile. Nothing like getting hit with a massive steel knuckle attached to a 600 ton locomotive.
Phillip Mulligan my uncle used to scare guests by parking on a train line and locking the doors and shutting off the engine, he waits until the train blows its horn before he restarted it and got off the tracks
Its not accurate. Ofc there will be a segment of people that lack insight/awareness as they are deteriorating. You can put an arbitrary line there. Maybe its 80. Maybe its 85. Maybe its 75. The segment from that age will be prone to most accidents of any agegroup. However, the segment 18-25 is the next highest and always will be, no matter which highest old age group you take. Thats why insurance cmpanies charge those most of all.
As an American I had to laugh at the irony when he said, standing on a highway overpass, very near the beginning something like, "When was the last time you heard of a young person driving down the wrong side of the road?" and seeing behind him a stream of traffic going down the *left* side of the road. Some of us have never yet personally experienced traffic where drivers are required to drive on the left. And no matter how often I see it in movies or on TV, it still just looks *wrong* to me! :-)
And what a very bizarre report! I can tell that we have lived away from the UK for too long, as I was completely mystified by it. I am not a Brit, so I hope I can be excused for my confusion over this. :-) Although I learned to drive in the UK I lived in RHD countries too long to find that a normal direction, so I am with you on this one Lynn. Lynn David Newton
Hammond: What was that?! We asked you to do a safety video on level crossings! What kind of an idiot watches a car get hit by a train and then jumps up and down yelling "That's toast!"
tails345 Perfectly true. The brain shuts down on any slight impact. Hit your head on a beam on your ceiling, and depending on a number of things that might be all it takes to knock you out. If the entire body is shoved, the brain protects itself by just turning off for awhile. If the walls of the brain are impacted, that can be coma or death. The body often doesn't survive a whole lot, but now and then someone makes it through a moderate accident by dumb luck. Add a train and no one will ever survive.
Royce Barber Indeed. Like I said, most likely just the act of suddenly accelerating due to the impact would probably do 'interesting' things to your internal organs. Including your brain! :P Also, usually no one survives. It's the REALLY dumb people who always seem to. Weird, isn't it? xD
Kamaljit Ghotra it's actually true, and for avalanches. but still really fun thing to troll people at the bar with. On the reflector integrated in my jacket the only text you can find on it is "advanced rescue technology" :)
The most beautiful thing about it is that it needn't be said. Network Rail had adverts going at the time (e.g. ruclips.net/video/o6If6JgNQ-M/видео.html I think was shown around then too), and all that needs to be shown is 3:09 to get the picture. If that doesn't help, then all there is to be said is good riddance...
+xweert711 Yes they are and especially older people since they don´t care about anything with their jazz playing in their car they don´t see anything while driving actually making them more dangerous on the road than if a baby was driving the car.
Hi. The other motors in this clip are a MK4 Escort 88-92, MK2 Sierra 87-90 , E34 BMW 88-96 and I think a Cavalier but I'm not sure. So the MK2 Escort was probably taxed when the footage was filmed. P.S. I checked on DVLA website 🤭
Katayanagi Twins TRON like that new fastest one that has the massive ramped nose. Might just launch the van into the air, but the bullet trains don't have massive steel/iron bumpers so it would probably be catastrophically amazing in a macabre sort of way. Train throws van 100s of feet in the air, train flies of track at 300 mph....yeah. Great balz of Fire
The big danger with trains is that they usually have multiple cars, unlike this one, giving it a lot more mass and therefore more inertia. This video was best case scenario.
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As my dad told me with motorbikes “it’s better to be 5 minutes late then 60 years early”
Damn, I'm going to tell that to my kids if I have any.
I'm going to rember that when I get my driving licence
My dad always saidIts better to lose one minute of your life than to lose your life in 1 minute
That's some good Dadvice
Yup, I had a near miss with a lorry head on, a stupid over-take on a hot day, the car wobbled as i whipped it in just missing the lorry. Absolutely shat myself. Just to get home from work 1 minute earlier, I risked my life and never seeing my wife and son again...
fun fact, this was shot in 2007 and one of the high speed camera operators was gavin free, now of slow mo guys/achievement hunter fame
Woah that's awesome!
cool, i knew he did some tv stuff before the slo mo guys because he said so in a video once but never realised he did this and never knew what stuff he had done
Interesting thanks for sharing this! :)
Epic
W H A T
Most petrol head teens slow down when they see a railroad track anyway. Not just cause of safety but mainly to avoid damaging their rims
my car would touch the ground if i went over too quick haha
I don't want to lose control
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And that was without the mass of a mile long train. Just the locomotive.
And without the effect of brakes on the locomotive.
Admittedly the trains in the UK don't get a mile long, even our freight trains are only 20 or so cars, but the sheer force behind them is phenomenal
@@cowman850 wouldn't the sheer force be because of the immense weight or speed?? Or is it both??
Both, momentum =mass X velocity
Then force=rate of change of momentum
The snail has to pay 1000 pounds.
NO. Pounds.
Jon Trent jon this shows uk and it says 1000 quid fine
No robux
MSJ 😂😂😂
MSJ No tix
For anyone concerned about the snail, it was on the second track. Don't worry guys, it's alive.
Or dead already...
well thank god for that!
No snails were harmed in the making of this video.
fewww
I stepped on a snail today by accident. Guess that makes it even.
Are some people really that stupid that they think Clarkson is being serious about the jacket. He is wearing two bloody helmets while he says it ahaha
Gotta love the guy though.
Opiates Rock You can't hate him
If you look carefully he's actually wearing a second jacket underneath the first one too. Safety First kids!
Marfar even wearing helmet isn't the message. All they had to say was just don't bloody cross a railway crossing when it's red
Parag D *someone didn't understand the comedy of it*
"And the worst part is he's not wearing a high-visibility jacket" lmao
I’ve never seen a driver wearing a high visibility jacket
@@bigmanbazzaaa I do it all the time
@@bigmanbazzaaa who does lmao
abdihamid lmao means laugh my as* off
who tf would wear it in car wtf?
I wonder whether that Toyota Hilux would still turn on after this....
+R.K. Vigneshwar The better question would be if the train would still work after hitting the Hilux.
+movieguy2611
Probably the train will fly in the air and crash into some old women flying a plane
+R.K. Vigneshwar Toyota would be fine... the train would be destroyed...
What about the marauder?
R.K. Vigneshwar probably would u know
To be honest, I’m crediting seeing this video when I was a young teenager as the reason I’ve never even been tempted to jump a railroad crossing
I've never been tempted to do that. And I thought I was a maniac.
ive never been tempted to do it, because trains basically dont exist in my country
Well, if you do attempt, always remember your reflective vest, this way the train can easily steer away from your organic mass on the railway track.
the even scarier thing was that the car got hit by just a locomotive. imagine the momentum it would have if it was tugging 20 carriages...
In the UK we don't have 20 carriage trains. So what would it be like, as we can't imagine such a thing?
We in the americas have trains as lo by as 100 cars. The longest I personally have seen was 142 cars ON A SINGLE TRAIN!
@@CasinoWoyale For passenger trains certainly. The longest freight trains however are 775m!!
@@Unique-ps9ww The locomotive in the video was going 70-80 mph. So your train with lots of carriages won’t do that speed, depending on zone.
@@Unique-ps9ww Yeah I’m here in the United States we have trains almost 7 miles long
Me: *wears high visibility coat*
Train: understandable, have a great day
💀💀💀
Aight lemme just sweeerve onto the other track
It just steps over don’t worry
I don't think 70-80 tonnes of train gives a single crap about your high vis jacket
@@gunnutcase1234lol no kidding that was so extremely stupid of him to say LMFAO. 🤣😂🤣😂
The main problem is that the minivan was not wearing a high visibility jacket like Clarkson.
If they had used an electric SLS, everything would've been fine
@@brendancross2767 wow i am laughing so hard
Correction, it's an MPV (Multi Purpose Vehicle)
I swear it appears almost nobody understands that this segment is comedy, despite having a valid point about not blowing through railway crossings. Can nothing be both serious and funny?
In the 21st century? Are you daft?
Network Rail approached Top Gear (when the audience was wider and content better) and requested them to do a piece on level crossings. Clarkson does it in his own unique way. Comedy aside the picture speaks for itself. An Austrian car program, I think, tried to do something similar but without the comedy and it wasn't the same. Out of the two videos this sticks in my mind more. Re-watching it, it doesn't look like the air bags were able to deploy. Or at least not so you could see. And that, arguably, sticks out the most. There are plenty of videos showing vehicle train collisions at level crossings. None that I have seen show the same amount of detail in the same way that this one does.
comedy and sincerity are like church and state, they must be separated lest one corrupts the other.
BUT HE WASENT WEARING A HIGH VISIBILITY JACKET!!!!!!
your mother maybe ...
The Robin Rliant didn't roll when it gets hit by the train. Saddening.
Sadly it's because the one they used on Top Gear where Jeremy rolled it oh so many times was modified to roll more with weights in the body panels and suspension tweaks
Well it certainly would have had it passed the railroad crossing - there was a very sharp corner directly after it. Lucky for the driver the train realized it and gunned it to save him!
Indeed, that was filmed directly outside my house, they've fitted barriers but they didn't stop someone crashing into them and trashing their Focus. Bloody old people.
That’s Quick.
THAT’S TOAST!!
1:17 When your car gets hit so hard the paint starts bugging out
its actually a phenomenon on older computers where they showed blue as red and red as blue, i might be missing the garbage joke you made, but still an interesting fact
That is the blue car from mr. Bean
@Daniel Steger Woooshed
Daniel Steger your the garbage joke
@@tgmtf5963 bruhhh
My high visibility jacket saved me from a car crash, house fire, lightning strike, cancer, bullet wound, shark attack, and a meteor falling on me.
Remember, your safety is your number one priority, wear a high visibility jacket.
Over-exagration, and a horrid joke.
lol
Don't forget the steel capped shoes.
@@Astrophysix1 He does have a point though, a hi vis jacket isnt going to make a train stop in its tracks if you dart infront of it
DO NOT LISTEN TO HIM! I wore a high visibility jacket and 2 helmets and the train still didn't stop when I jumped in front of it!
The train won't stop, you just won't get hurt when it smashes into you.
Holy Wobbles lol
do you got wasted when jumping a train crossing ?
How are u still live to have wrote this?
The biggest Star Wars Fan the hi-vis saved him
At the end of the day, people jumping lights at level crossings is just natural selection at work.
Darwin awards.
Adam Hansen too bad for the train operator though
Birki gts train does not even feel it
Considering the incident at Ufton Nervet and many other places... It really isn't just the car driver.
@@zacharyjudkins9191 A normal commuter train can take up to a mile to perform an emergency stop and if its raining you are just fucked. Train drivers who do have incidents like that are given paid time off and if it happens enough they are able to retire on full pay because of the trauma at least in the UK they are I know a train driver who works for Northern rail.
that beeping is the most annoying and simultaneously scary thing ever.
Go to America and hear our DING DING DING DING
@@coyotem3a1 Yup. Even though we have those, idiots still put their lives at risk. Personally, I enjoy a proper Yodelalarm. That's what the beepers are called. A Safetran E-Bell is also very appealing.
@@coyotem3a1 I live in america. i've heard it before.
Congrats, it's serving it's purpose!
What about the "BANG BANG BANG BANG"?
I remember seeing this clip back in highschool around 2008
I finally understand the message watch out for snails on railroad tracks
mPky1 As you can see by my avatar, I am able to tell you that you are very correct as I know things about railroad crossing things.
cheeze puff alright "cheeze puff" im king around these parts
cheeze puff the message is to wear an orange safety jacket
J McConnaughey Im a cheesepuff. Im always orange....
This is true, but safety health and safeness has proven here today that orange safety jackets are safetieriest of all.
In my American drivers education course I was placed in to learn how to drive we were shown an edited version of this
andjpan Me too
Trust the Americans to take it seriously. :)
@@thribs The crash footage itself is a perfect illustration of what happens in this type of collision, and should be taken seriously.
just watch Thomas the train memes on youtube.
@@thribs The average American Freight has upwards of 70 cars, averaging 60 miles per hour.
If that hits you, you're dead
2:25 The young lad in the background left is Slow-Mo Guys Gavin.
@Bill Zussman twitter.com/gavinfree/status/799994048991916033
Shame we didn't get a clearer shot of him.
@@ps2bndled yeah, but at this point in time he was basically nobody, so it would have been really weird for them to care about this one camera guy.
2:43 Trespassing Snail, 1000 Pound Penalty
Stolen comment
Death penalty
@@nickelcrackmemes literal😂
@@mohammed_the_train_spotter and nobody gives a shit
1:33 thats when this stops being serious and turns into Top Gear
It's morons like you who don't wear a high visibility jacket and put other's lives at risk
Which is why Network Rail asked Top Gear to do this (it was carried out at a NR testing site). There are a lot of young-middle age drivers who will jump crossings. Many may watch Top Gear and will be more interested and more engaged and take more notice of Clarkson doing a 5 minute level crossing safety clip (Clarkson-style) than listening to a 30 second message by Network Rail.
Did the snail die?
Ya :(
Strongshotgaming ohh man, the snail.. RIP
GUnPoWDe
Guys they would've put the snail there just for that point in the video they would've moved it after that one shot.
it's his own fault, he wasn't wearing his safety jacket.
MegaFreakOfNature197
LMFAO
If Jeremy did a real PSA, there’s no way I’d be able to take him seriously haha
'Sir Robert Markson'
where can i buy a colour changing reliant like that guy?
Walmart
Wish.com
@@Mattt7940 probably for 3.99£ too
And color changing shirt
The whole picture is colour changing, must be an issue with what it was recorded onto.
wow, That was pretty insane. I never ever would run a crossing even if i had to. that is so stupid putting your life at risk for what? saving 2 minutes?
Do you understand sarcasm?
The Doctor absolutely! I totally understood sarcasm, but what they were trying to point out is that it does kill lots of people each and every year. and I was saying how silly to risk your life to safe a couple minutes.
The Doctor Do you understand English?
If only they just realized you could wear a high visibility jacket.
Yes
Now i ve bought a high visibility jacket so i can sleep on the railway
Yeah, now you are immortal!
I need one of those!
Kaloyan Stoyanov
Don't forget your nokia 3310.
lol
1:15
He is the blue car driver from Mr. Bean with his repainted car. He is doing it because now he has no job to do.
😔
The trike that always gets in an accident? Yeah, that might be one of the deleted scenes from the show.
@@ps2bndled
Not really a trike
A reliant robin perhaps
@@Magnus_Caramelo_55 The Robin has three wheels, so it's still sensible to call it a trike.
Lmao 💀
maybe the train on gta isn’t too far from reality after all
To its credit though, the Espace stayed in one piece, relatively.
yeah, it will buff out.
They only had to peel the car off the trains buffers, it's no big deal.
'Tis but a scratch!
Kieran Hughes But if the train is doing 125mph a car will not just pel of the buffers. The train they use in top gear has a top speed of only 75mph
steven oakes i think he was trying to be funny mate as was I. but that particular class of train can do a tonne at a push.
If you would put one nokia on the side of the car, the train would be on the moon before it would even hit the car.
You have to put Nokia 3310 mobile phones on a Toyota Hilux. Future tank concept :D
+Der Bleifuss I dropped my 3410 out of a second floor window once onto the driveway to see what would happen. Phone split into 3 pieces (As it is designed to). I then slotted it back together again (as it is designed to). Difference - 1 single crack accross the screen (and I literally mean crack, not the smash and broken screens you seem to see with every other iphone), a bit chipped on one side and it makes a buzzing when on charge. Still made/recieved calls and texts. The current Nokia 3303i or something like that I dropped while cycling and a car ran over it meaning the liquid crystal in the screen broke. Got it fixed and its still working. Maybe thats why Nokia went out of business...no one needed to buy a new Nokia as the old ones were still working!
+tom201090 I once drove over my Samsung Galaxy XCover and it's still working
MardenianGamer jep
Wavelen no the train would smash the Nokia because its a plastic little phone. Fad following morons.
3:50 those buffers nearly went though.😬
There are two things in life you never fuck with: Wu-Tang Clan and Trains.
@@ejl1000 exactly. Wu Tang Clan ain't nothin to fuck wit.
precisely . buh-bye passenger 1
Remember children, always wear a high visibility jacket.
Yes, you can stand on the rail road tracks and get hit, but you cannot die if you have a high visibility jacket on.
TheDanishWaffle
That was the way to make people remember the real message... sadly some people did not get it anyway.
And always wear two helmets; more the better.
Evolq If ever you take it off, you've got less than a minute to live.
The REAL message is if you get hit by a high speed train at a RR crossings & get dragged 100+ yards away from the crossing you are only one thing:
Dead.
Hamburger meat
You'd be fine if you wear a high visibility jacket.
Also idiot...
@@alcupone6462 Also called having a laugh considering the context of the video content.
The person I really feel sorry for is the guy who has to relay all that ballast.
+Castletorch It was extra ballast piled up to slow the engine, which was unmanned and had no brakes. The big job was actually sweeping it up; none needed to be relaid.
danlefou unmanned!?
@@railfangraham4182 The loco doing the impact had no crew and the engine was not running with the brakes 'off', You can see earlier in the vid that it was being propelled up to speed by a second loco which then slowed while the first loco freewheeled into the car. I would guess this was the reason it took a while to stop after impact as no one was applying a brake
@@andybuckley9223 train brakes are applied when brake line loses its pressure. This line could be damaged on impact. And I think crane in cab could be left slightly opened, so engine started to slow down after decoupling.
P.S. It's really dangerous to left 100 t "ram" with no brakes
The ballast is laid by a machine
3:06 imagine that being the last thing you see😨
Oof
Insert Thomas outro theme
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the first, ever Slow Mo Guys video filmed by Gavin Free.
+ChrisThatsHappy "People like grapes"
2:43 The famed snail assassin?
You can see the young lad at 2:25, furthest on the left
When I got to the slow mo part I was trying to remember if Gav said he worked on Top Gear before then I saw your comment. What a champ.
Wait, as in....Gavin Free? Slo Mo Guys Gavin Free? Rooster Teeth 'Headlight Fluid' Gavin Free? Hot Damn. Nice. Well, Kudos to Gavin.
Thanks to Top Gear I have worn a high visibility jacket whilst driving since 2007. Even though there are no trains in my country, you can never be too safe.
poor train did that mean car hurt you
The thing is, the train wasn't damaged In the slightest
The car on the other hand, well, you won't be driving that any time soon
Joe Dohn and a bit of spit just to get extra gluey-ness
TOTAL IDIOT,Transport and cars do not talk.
total idiot Joe.
Ala Makota have y.....ou ever heard of....u
...mm Sarcasm?
My father has worked for Canadian Pacific Railway, both as a civil engineer and learning locomotive engineering as well (or train driver as some call it)
When he was learning, he very nearly hit someone who was in the middle of the crossing. Thankfully they moved in time, but despite being in full emergency braking, he was still going somewhere around 35 miles an hour and likely would've killed the person in the car. He's said to me that if that happened, he would've been questioning himself for the rest of his life.
He's shown me dashcam footage from a train that nearly killed two workers that were clearing snow off the tracks, because they hadn't gotten track protection (both barely escaped with their lives) and you can hear the loco engineer calling into RTC, and you can tell how stressed and worried he is by the belief that he had just taken a life.
I've worked on a construction site right next to rail tracks, when a train was going by we had to stop work so protection could be removed, because we were technically foul of track.
You just don't mess with trains, 2 tons of easily crumplable steel or aluminium vs 20 thousands tons of hard steel has a pretty obvious outcome
Well, Doc; it's destroyed... just like you wanted.
Renegade13 Doctor!
Great Scott! Another one who knows!
I hope the snail was ok..
**Shows the van**
In this corner, the challenger!
**Shows the train**
And in this corner, the reigning champion for as long as automobiles have been a thing!
If anyone want's to know, the locomotive that hit that poor car is a Class 31, numbered 31 107. Owned by Network Rail and fitted with a reinforced front end.
Why was there a second train behind it
Ross Mingay I can provide an answer.
At 2:50, you can see a second class 31 (of which I can't indentify) coupled behind 31 107. In the shot you speak of, the other unidentified '31' has (for some reason) detached. I hope this answers your question.
@@rossmingay26 I quess the train that hits the car has no driver inside. That other train has a driven and pushes the hitting train to speed.
Scrapped by CF Booth at Rotherham in May 2009. Sad fate for a beautiful loco.
What and you think that a normal trains front WOULD FOLD IN? Doubt it. You ever seen them apart? I've seen them with the heads off the V12 diesel rebuilding the engine. Damn big engine.
Should be called a Renault ESCAPE!
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"Sir Robert Markson"
I wonder how expensive it was to get that track fixed afterwards.
No sweat, they just called Gary and Bob, poured some recycled gravel and ran few freighters thru, to check the straightness... whole deal was within the fiver.
Probably quite a lot. But it's the BBC, they don't care about money. They have all of it.
I'd say a fair bit...the car rips into the shoulders of the ballast quite aggressively.
But earlier in the video the track looks like it needs a bit of work anyway as the rail has a bit of mud spots and sunken
Only the ballast would have been moved. And the train wight possibly need someone to go at the front with a tiny little paintbrush.
I doubt it cost the BBC anything. The BBC probably only paid for the TV part of the video; the staging and clear-up was probably paid for by Network Rail. Given how much "real" incidents like this cost, they probably considered it good value as a means of discouraging future incidents. They probably did it on a section of track that was due to be re-ballasted anyway.
I’ve been told that on day 1 of train engineer/driver school you get told that you *will* kill someone one day, it probably won’t be your fault, but if you aren’t prepared for that, this job isn’t for you.
I managed 43 years 😮 I retired after 45 years..
the slow mo guys made this in slow motion!
2:17 did the camera man stifle a laugh there?
***** sounded like he tried not to laugh. Covered it up. I heard it
It could be "Markson's" high-vis clothes rubbing against each other...
Good catch
That exhale, lol
Yeah I hear a wheeze lmao
Obviously the snail died because he wasn't wearing a safety jacket.
Keep in mind that it was just the locomotive. Entire train would be heavier, so the momentum would be even higher.
I can't imagine how much paperwork they have to go through to get permission to do this kinda stuff...
If you look on the train, it has a safety ad on the side.
I'd say they do this on a regular basis.
Fragdog Shibe
You're right, I didn't even notice that lol
For a good laugh, scroll through the comments of people asking how a high vis jacket will help.
Everyone for your concern about the snail and car is that no snails or other animals were harmed in the process of making this video the snail was on other track enjoying his/her life.But sadly the van wss harmed and did not make it during the process of video...
Youre welcome for the info..
Have a great day!!
Edit:Also train did have damage but minor not major the train is ok 👌...
The locomotive was also scrapped afterwards lol
@@lukeslocomotives8521 lol
What makes it a magnitude more dangerous is that the Espace wasn't wearing a high visibility jacket either.
1:16 Mr Bean will be so disappointed he didn't get to topple the Reliant.
If that Reliant rolled, my life would be complete.
I'm glad they are reuploading hd versions of videos. I'm not complaining
So a jacket is gonna save me from getting crushed by a train?
The conductor is going to see you and say:
Ahhhhh!!! It's Satan!!! Stop the bloody train! xD
Does anyone realise that this is one of the only a few times that Clarkson is serious on tv
The man's wearing 2 hard hats 🤣
Semi serious
@@robertohaubold752 For jeremy? That's pretty damn serious.
Have you seen his documentaries on the Victoria Cross and the raid on St. Nazaire in 1942 - both are here on RUclips.
0:23 "When was the last time you heard of a young person, driving the wrong way down a motorway? Never" ...says a Brit
When an American come to England and is like why is everyone driving on the wrong side of the road.
***** what about when the brits or australiens come over to America it is the same feeling so don't complain
***** That sentence does not make sense. There should be a comma at the end, then more words.
I see what you did there.
@@startrekwarsmixguy Driving on the right side has a lot of benefits. For example are most people (even in england) right handed. That means its easier for them To switch gears with their right hand or using the Navigation-System or Radio. Furthermore you are better at guessing distances on your right side as a right-handed Person.That means you can get closer to the right side of the road without leaving it than on the left lane. Even putting your Seatbelt on is faster if you sit on the left.
Producing Cars with steering wheel on the left is cheaper as they sell much better around the globe
There are some minor or bigger advantages in driving on the right road as a right handed Person. As 9 out of 10 people are right handed it would be better to switch.
In addition the entire world has right road traffic. Why would you still stick on left road traffic?
that is a great message to give. People should watch this video when they are doing their driving lessons.
This is the kinda of entertainment we expect & deserve! for 1.5m per episode haha - Bravo!
That Espace would make a pretty decent snow plough.
2:44 RIP SNAIL
Snail didn't die
THISISFLAMINGDWAGON but what if snail is not kill?
AgentG1991 Than illuminati confirmed
THISISFLAMINGDWAGON rip in peperoniss
THISISFLAMINGDWAGON Schrödinger Snail
I find it impossible for a person not to hear a 210 Db triple note locomotive klaxon that can be heard for a whole mile. Nothing like getting hit with a massive steel knuckle attached to a 600 ton locomotive.
Yet people keep getting hit by trains with em.
John Nicodemus indeed
John Nicodemus Because they are drunk Alberta farmers.
Phillip Mulligan Trust me, in UK modern trains are silent. It is impossible to hear them from inside the car.
Phillip Mulligan my uncle used to scare guests by parking on a train line and locking the doors and shutting off the engine, he waits until the train blows its horn before he restarted it and got off the tracks
What if I told you they put that snail on the rail just so they can get that shot
ahd movi axaykar
4:23 that was smooth!
So it's ok to run red lights of your wearing an orange neon coat?
David Friggy yes
MeroDN Do this at your own risk though
David Friggy of course you big idiot! :P
I dont think so
+David Friggy Health and safety say that as long as you are wearing a hi-vis and hard hat, you are immortal!
I don't understand what Jeremy is talking about at 0:23. EVERYBODY is driving the wrong way!
if that train ran into a nokia 3310 it would explode.
the train, that is.
no just no the nokia is just flying into pieces
WHOOSH! What was that? That was the joke flying right over your head!
This documentary is actually mostly accurate, my grandad routinely speeds even when not in a rush.
Speeding is one thing. Being stupid is another.
@Sumvs Grandson?
Its not accurate.
Ofc there will be a segment of people that lack insight/awareness as they are deteriorating. You can put an arbitrary line there. Maybe its 80. Maybe its 85. Maybe its 75. The segment from that age will be prone to most accidents of any agegroup.
However, the segment 18-25 is the next highest and always will be, no matter which highest old age group you take.
Thats why insurance cmpanies charge those most of all.
Beware the jokes coming about cubes, planes and Voldemort
It's a damned shame someone let Voldemort run an airport. And he wasn't even wearing a high visibility jacket! Shame.
Kendra Fitzpatrick Oh. Now I see why Dan sent us here.
That is just terrifying.
If you think that is terrifying, then you have not seen my hairy ass!
jokeinsurance That's what razors are for.
newdefsys Or hair removal cream
3:00 "If You Drove Like That On The Public Road You'd Deserve To Be Called A Maniac!"
I think I understand now why it's impossible to stop the train in GTA V.
Still more exciting than looking after an airport...
im laughing at the inability of some people in here to not understand Jeremy's sarcasm about wearing a high vis jacket...
he is wearing 2. you know...extra safety.
Now I can stand on the train tracks and survive if I wear a high visibility jacket. Yay!
“Sir Robert Markson”
3:05
The car=me
The train= F on a test
F
As an American I had to laugh at the irony when he said, standing on a highway overpass, very near the beginning something like, "When was the last time you heard of a young person driving down the wrong side of the road?" and seeing behind him a stream of traffic going down the *left* side of the road. Some of us have never yet personally experienced traffic where drivers are required to drive on the left. And no matter how often I see it in movies or on TV, it still just looks *wrong* to me! :-)
And what a very bizarre report! I can tell that we have lived away from the UK for too long, as I was completely mystified by it. I am not a Brit, so I hope I can be excused for my confusion over this. :-)
Although I learned to drive in the UK I lived in RHD countries too long to find that a normal direction, so I am with you on this one Lynn. Lynn David Newton
The thing to remember. Top Gear is to driving as Dave Barry is to academic research... More Monty Python than Scientific American.
Alan Gauld I didn't know that. I took it seriously.
Hammond: What was that?! We asked you to do a safety video on level crossings!
What kind of an idiot watches a car get hit by a train and then jumps up and down yelling "That's toast!"
As soon as I turn 70 I'm going on a GTA driving spree
Passenger instant death, driver most likely instant death also.
Considering in the UK the driver is on the right and that's the side that was hit first I'm pretty sure the driver is dead.
Just the G-Forces alone would probably have killed them, nevermind getting flattened by a train. xD
tails345 Perfectly true. The brain shuts down on any slight impact. Hit your head on a beam on your ceiling, and depending on a number of things that might be all it takes to knock you out. If the entire body is shoved, the brain protects itself by just turning off for awhile. If the walls of the brain are impacted, that can be coma or death. The body often doesn't survive a whole lot, but now and then someone makes it through a moderate accident by dumb luck. Add a train and no one will ever survive.
Royce Barber Indeed. Like I said, most likely just the act of suddenly accelerating due to the impact would probably do 'interesting' things to your internal organs. Including your brain! :P Also, usually no one survives. It's the REALLY dumb people who always seem to. Weird, isn't it? xD
G-force would be enough to kill, and even then the car was literally impaled by the train bumper thingies.
Just a spot of polish and elbow grease and the scratch will be out in no time...
ALWAYS wear a high visibility jacket!
Glad I got one the other day!
i always wear a jacket with advanced rescue technology.
h3erox hahahahaha
Kamaljit Ghotra it's actually true, and for avalanches. but still really fun thing to troll people at the bar with. On the reflector integrated in my jacket the only text you can find on it is "advanced rescue technology" :)
I love how Jeremy’s advice at the end of the video is to wear a high visibility jacket not to be patient at a level crossing
The most beautiful thing about it is that it needn't be said. Network Rail had adverts going at the time (e.g. ruclips.net/video/o6If6JgNQ-M/видео.html I think was shown around then too), and all that needs to be shown is 3:09 to get the picture. If that doesn't help, then all there is to be said is good riddance...
fun fact; gavin free was on set filming the slow motion
Niall Redmond hopefully he wasn't or he would have cocked everything up
Yeah he was you can see him at 2:25 on the far left
It's easy to spot him with that nose
Are people actually stupid enough to run the red lights at a crossroads?
+xweert711 Yes. Yes they are. Especially those risk taking adrenaline junkies elderly.
+xweert711 Yes they are and especially older people since they don´t care about anything with their jazz playing in their car they don´t see anything while driving actually making them more dangerous on the road than if a baby was driving the car.
Ryan rosenberg Old people huh?
Well, they've lived long enough anyway.
*I'm sorry.*
+xweert711 Yes there are.
xweert711 lol
It will buff out.
Lmao, it turned the train into a bulldozer with all the gravel it's moving.
that red ford at 0:57 hasent been taxed since 1996
Good to know
Hi. The other motors in this clip are a MK4 Escort 88-92, MK2 Sierra 87-90 , E34 BMW 88-96 and I think a Cavalier but I'm not sure. So the MK2 Escort was probably taxed when the footage was filmed. P.S. I checked on DVLA website 🤭
yeah now imagine a bullet train hitting that car
Katayanagi Twins TRON like that new fastest one that has the massive ramped nose. Might just launch the van into the air, but the bullet trains don't have massive steel/iron bumpers so it would probably be catastrophically amazing in a macabre sort of way. Train throws van 100s of feet in the air, train flies of track at 300 mph....yeah. Great balz of Fire
yup
Impossible high speed lines don't have level crossings in most countries.
I will be like
Holy mother of trains, that is FAST
The big danger with trains is that they usually have multiple cars, unlike this one, giving it a lot more mass and therefore more inertia. This video was best case scenario.
five pounds the snail made it?
+Noah o brien you would have lost that bet if it had of been on the other side of the tracks
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1:17 so this guy, hit by a train in his reliant. Survived
So Jeremy, rolled down a hill into the river in a reliant. Dead.
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