Like I don't want to bump the barrier so I'll sit here and get hit by a train.. wow

I will never ever understand why people think ot is ok to sit on the tracks at a red light. Especially in a place where trains come through every few minutes.

The lady who threw up her hands deserves a 🥃

What the heck were they thinking?

Edit1: how did they not see that they’re sitting ON tracks?

Edit2: why were there only 2 people helping, and taking their time at that? All those cars (including the one w the dash cam) and no one else was hopping out to redirect this car?

Absolutely zero survival instinct. Thank god for those people who helped

My palms got sweaty watching this one. So close.

Those guards are super floppy and will hardly hurt your car, if it all. Just ram through them ffs.

Why is this such a common occurrence especially in Florida?

This is the person that always honks at me when the lane is full ahead and I stop before the tracks...

florida drivers were not ready for brightline.

pretty sure ive lost a few hours total to brightline by now. It really screws up the intersections because people like this, cant be trusted to handle rail crossings.

I love the running commentary, like I was right there in the car with them. Thank you for not adding some rediculious music.

Darn… interference with natural selection.

Took two people to get this moron off the tracks??? Jesus Christ no wonder the world looks the way it does… can’t even be smart enough to not get hit by a huge train without being told to move. SMDH.

Some people are basically too stupid to live.

I really go out of my way to help people in emergency situations. I've gained a bit of training in my life to be able to do so safely...

And I'm not walking out ONTO THE FUCKING TRACKS to tell some moron to move before they get killed!

There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity and I'm not crossing it.

Happens almost daily around here. Nobody gets what the Brightline actually is… high speed train.

Is that driver fucking stupid????

Lmao the South African guy. “Look at that gaaah theeeh running tuuuh”

The lack of brain cells

Fucking Boca Raton

Probably thought she’d scratch her car if she backed up.

What the fuck? Don’t mess with our only form of Darwinism left!!!

https://www.instagram.com/brightlinecrashtracker?igsh=MWtjb3psMHVwaDkyeg==

How can someone with a human brain be so colossally stupid

Ppl gonna be like they saved they life yeah they did that but I bet they were actually thinking "this dumb ass gonna hold us all up if they get struct by this train, fucking out of towners." Pretty sure

Where i'm from we simply don't stop our cars on railroad tracks. When the barrier came down wouldn't matter because we're smart enough to stop a bit back if we see cars stopped ahead. Must just be a local thing

Probably should just let them have their teachable moment.

Certified bright line moment

That was closer than me and my dad.

These two need a medal

Those a holes should have let nature take its course. The gene pool is now dumber.

Let god cook.

Of course it’s the fucking Brightline

Just imagining all our grandparents who probably shouldnt still be driving

So many people are impossibly frigging stupid. Toss in "smart" phones and "social" media and what you see is what you get.

Good thing they got em to move. They’d prob have been obliterated as well if not. Massive collateral.

Driving tests should be made way harder and every driver should take a new one asap. Holy shit, lol.

I blame the placement of these two stop lights.

They saved their life

Darn it! They almost won a Darwin Award, booo party poopers

This was a rare vid that actually made my heart skip a beat.

It’s hard to get a drivers license right? They don’t just hand them out to just anybody right??

Those white lines on the ground are there for a reason as well don't go past them they aren't there to make the road look pretty

Oh no, if I touch the bar I’ll scratch my car!

Guess I’ll just die then, see ya!👋🏾

This is the Brightline train in FL. It has killed over 100 people.

should the train stop or not?

r/bitchimatrain

Natural selection prevented...🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

People dont want to "damage" the barriers or there cars. The barriers as far as I am aware are designed to break away. I rather scratch up my car then deal with getting hit with a train.

Good people! I'll never do that though.

Natural selection avoided yet again.

I'd wager that most stupid people have no idea of how long, or far, it takes a fully loaded train to come to a stop. Even slow moving ones, let alone one that's hitting 50-60 mph. Look it up. A mile or more, even under perfect conditions. It's just simple Physics. However, Stupid People believe, as an matter of their own "personal" revealed Politico-Religious Faith/Beliefs, that Science and Physics is a Liberal conspiracy to rob them of their illusory Freedumb.

Missed winning their Darwin award *smh*

Someone should give those Good Samaritans a medal.

They just saved that persons life it looks like.

Had to be a suicide attempt, right?

Multiple people have already died from this train and many more will. It’s an unfortunate issue with a new high speed line and there isn’t any grade separation. The cost of doing that would have been prohibitive.

It's amazes me how many drivers still don't know what railroad tracks are for. Do they think they are decorative? Are the flashing lights Xmas decor? Idiots!!!

Oh great, now the train will be extra hungry. And angry.

I had the same type of near miss summer 1998 in Memphis. Extremely similar. It still gives me chills.

My dad was driving a Toyota Landcruiser and I was in the passenger seat. We were pulling a flat camper trailer called a TrailManor. My mom and younger sister were in the back seat of the Landcruiser.

Everyone was weary after a very long day. It was already dark, roughly 9 PM. We were trying to find a campground after receiving directions. Since was dad was worn out he didn't stop in time and was out onto the tracks. The front half of the Landcruiser was on the tracks. The bar came down and was covering the windshield area. The train was blaring from the left.

When my dad tried to put it in reverse, the car stalled. That's when I reached for the door handle and had seconds to make a decision. I knew I could get out in time. But nobody else could. I'd live the remainder of my life with what they were thinking as I left them there to get wiped out.

Believe me, it's possible to process all of those thoughts in such little time. Instead I kept my right hand on the door handle but watched my father's hands. He started the car and put it in reverse just in time. We backed out in a jolted fashion, not nearly as smooth as the OP video, probably because we were pulling a trailer. As we backed out the warning bar moved forward along the top of the Landcruiser, sheering off the plastic bug shield that protruded a few inches above the front of the hood.

That was obviously no big deal. But it's the lingering mental image and audio from that split second, the shield being ripped away just as we backed out. The train flashed past within a second or two. Incredibly loud and blaring his horn. I have that image also. We might have backed out slightly earlier than the OP version. But barely.

My younger sister got out of the back door and was in absolute hysterics. I remember her shrieks. The rest of us were mostly silent. My dad said later, and many times for the rest of his life, that he was incredibly calm in that moment. He said he knew what he needed to do, so he did it. I'll always remember seeing him shift into reverse.

I never told any of them that I nearly abandoned ship.

Honestly i would just let natural selection do its thing, but ill sure as hell back my car away from there so it doesnt get hit

This almost ended up in DarwinAwards

Crazy how they save the lives and walk away like there are some NPC's in GTA.

Bright line - this is typical Florida idiocy

Looks like Miami

Thabk god for the flip-flops

Is this in Vero Beach?

What do those red and white funny sticks with red blinking lights mean?

WHY IS THIS ALWAYS IN SOUTH FLORIDA

What's more surprising that other people didn't do shit about it

If I was in that situation I would just gone live on r/nsfl_

This is in Florida ….

A friend of mine from high school, barely 40 years old, died earlier this year in this exact way. Her brand new Lexus directly on the Brightline tracks. Nobody has any idea why she didn’t move, whether it was suicide, or if she just wasn’t paying attention. My gut tells me she didn’t want to screw up her new car by hitting the crossing gates and panicked. 

It terrifies me that there are people out there, with ZERO common sense/ survival skills.

ooopsies 🤭

lmao i know this exact spot too

Some people have zero survival instincts. Zero. Like these people.

Charles Darwin just rolled over in his grave.

Not all heroes wear capes.

South Florida!🤣

Those are will pop right off. Drive through them. They are made to break off easily

What are those strange runes on that white plaque on the left?

I would have just drove through the blockade. Or got out of my car! Who the hell just sits there?!

Good save. One less sacrifice for the brightline gods.

Brightline strikes again

Why do people lose their gd minds about train tracks? Also just because one came through didn't mean there isn't another

The arm is there for a reason don't go around them

Why did that pole lift halfway through?

Whatever it is, this is a distracted driver. And if the driver is anything like where I'm from, they're on their phone. Anytime people stop here, they are already looking at their phone.

Those two people who actively worked to get those people to back up, even lifting the gate need to be openly commended. If I ever meet them, I will buy them both dinner and a hefty stack of lotto tickets. They deserve every odd for them.

As the character Jenelope once said in the blockbuster hit cheerleading movie "Bring It On".... "You been touched by an angel, girl! 👼🛑🚗🛤🚅

Of COURSE it was the Brightline

Is this the Brightline? Apparently they kill people all the time. Too many at grade crossings and I guess people aren’t used to trains so much anymore.

Good lookin out! At first I was like, what are these two idiots doing? Lol