Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/10/watch-this-last-second-rescue.html
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On dry tracks in good weather when the equipment is in good shape and there’s no overloading…
Someday I will figure out what combination of scripts to allow so that Digg videos will work.
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Passenger trains stop significantly more quickly than freight trains can. Just because of the possibility of this sort of accident, or of people being “startled” into a train, the speed limit through a station is usually slower than full speed.
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I know that feeling. More than two layers deep == not today.
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Yeah, the commuter trains mass a lot less. But I was on the R2 coming south from Philly and we slid a half mile past Fox Chase station because of a fall of wet leaves on the track. Had to back up to let the passengers off, which screwed up the schedule.
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There’s certainly no doubt that in this case, rounding a curve as it is, it doesn’t look like there is any way a train could stop short upon seeing him. Rolling under the platform is safer than trying to climb up when the train is in sight.
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The rescued guy was (train)spotted by the rescuer!
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In the video it looks like the train did stop just short of where the person was. (The video isn’t paused, the people are still moving.)
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I saved someone like this with a friend on the Toronto subway tracks when I was 17. A man was trying to cross from one platform to the other. But he was completely wasted and couldn’t climb up onto the platform and headed back. Women were screaming, “The train is coming! The train is coming!” but he just couldn’t climb up on the platform. My friend and I each grabbed an arm and hauled him to safety with seconds to spare - although 5 seconds is really quite a long time under the circumstances. We were from out of town, so we thought this was no big deal. Happens all the time. About 10 years later we both lived in Toronto and laughed about how weird it was that we thought this was normal
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Ah, Near Miss Film, Snuff Film’s more socially acceptable* cousin
*with good reason, don’t get me wrong…
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I agree with the Diggs videos. It calls up too many scripts to run, I’m exhausted.
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You might like r/nonononoyes on Reddit. But probably not r/nonononono
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Australian for “saved.”
Stay.The.Fuck.Behind.The.Fucking.Yellow.Line.
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The driver in the incident did activate the vehicle’s emergency brakes when the man came into vision however, at full speed, a train takes about a kilometre to come to a complete stop.
Speaking of full stops, that’s a run-on sentence.
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Damn, mind the bloody gap!
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Close, though. There can’t be more than a metre in it. If the bystander hadn’t been there, it might have just kissed the guy, and a kiss from a train would hurt for sure.
Kudos for the driver who pulled off the quick stop, and hopes that he doesn’t get nightmares of what might have happened.
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Or, in this particular case, just going in the other direction. There was plenty of empty space on the other side of the track, and that would be easier than climbing the platform…
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Yes, but then he’d miss the train.
