This Incredibly Lucky Railway Crossing Escape Is About As Close To Certain Death As It Gets

It's okay to clench as you watch a fast-moving train come within inches of atomising a Volkswagen Golf that had ignored the safety barriers at a level crossing

Close shaves don’t come much closer than this. We’d imagine lots of poo came out of the four occupants of this MkIV Golf when the driver drove straight through the barriers and a fast-moving train clipped its rear end.

Watch the footage, which was filmed in Poland, to see for yourself just how unbelievably close the quartet came to obliteration. The first angle shows the Golf barging underneath a barrier that must have been impossible to miss, and then the impact when the train suddenly appears from camera-right.

This Incredibly Lucky Railway Crossing Escape Is About As Close To Certain Death As It Gets

Then the video switches to the opposite angle and captures the action from behind the car, displaying the damage as well. If the driver hadn’t braked when faced with the second barrier, the car might have escaped unscathed, but it could so easily have been much, much worse. If the Golf had been just a foot or so further back it would have been collected viciously by the train, and survival would have been unlikely.

Via: The Telegraph

Comments

Bryan from Philly

Someone should’ve watched Clarksons PSA about train crossings

08/11/2017 - 11:48 |
14 | 0
Ian MacDonald

That drag race was quite hard…

08/11/2017 - 11:53 |
86 | 0
Evan H.

Nice try but it’s best to leave it to the pros…

08/11/2017 - 11:55 |
190 | 4

Damn. You beat me.

08/11/2017 - 12:27 |
10 | 0

Near miss - 100rp

08/12/2017 - 17:32 |
4 | 0
Anonymous

Closer than this? I think not.

08/11/2017 - 12:27 |
14 | 10
Anonymous

I love it how at the end of the video they’re like “Hey, thanks for dropping us off” “No problem, fam” drives away like nothing happened

08/11/2017 - 12:37 |
26 | 0
SAVAGE DOGG (Ping-Pong Gang) (Corvette Squad)

“Just a tap” -Peter Jeakins (SLAP)

08/11/2017 - 12:46 |
26 | 0
5:19.55

Chooo Chooo, tchakachaka tchakachaka Chooo Chooo tchakachaka tchakachaka

08/11/2017 - 19:42 |
16 | 0
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I just wanted to make this…

08/12/2017 - 05:04 |
10 | 0
Anonymous

He owns a golf he will die a virgin

08/12/2017 - 08:39 |
0 | 2
H5SKB4RU (Returned to CT)

How come the rear tailight still works?

08/12/2017 - 09:24 |
0 | 0

It’s still a wonder the passengers and the driver is not suffering a shock.

08/14/2017 - 11:46 |
2 | 0

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