How do pedestrians get hit by trains?

They want to, so they do.

Alcohol is involved, is my thought.

Except at the link.

Sometimes they get tied down to the tracks. 😢

R3 = Snidely Whiplash

Thank you OP - it’s been a question I’ve had for years. Suicide makes sense - but I see so many stories about “accidentally” getting hit by a train - both pedestrians and dumbfuck drivers who attempt to cross tracks while the signal is down,

Pedestrians get hit by trains very quickly.

In some urban areas, the trains don't blow their horns at intersections because the residential neighbors complain about the noise. So a pedestrian who's staring at his phone instead of watching where he's going and looking both ways might wander onto a track without realizing that a train is rushing toward him. At some of those sites, cities are erecting partial gates that pedestrians will bump into, which will cause them to look up and notice where they are. I think that people like this should just be left alone while natural selection takes its course, but the train engineers say that it's distressing for them to hit people on the tracks, so efforts are being made to accommodate their concerns.

For some it’s a suicide method.

R2 Yes, Alcohol is frequently involved. At my alma mater, there are train tracks that run between campus and the main bar/party neighborhood, many students got hit walking between the two.

I live in an area with a LOT of railway lines. I grew up walking along the railway tracks to get around, since they were often a more direct route to a different neighborhood. But I was always very aware, and I don't screw around wearing ear buds or playing around with my phone.

Smiling, lonely, single, farmer, hobbling life together after prior (possibly still painful) near fatal accident, self medicates and dies.

Clayton was kinda hot.

Headphones/ear buds are also a contributing factor. A few years ago, a young man who worked at our company got killed by a train. He was walking home, on the tracks which was a frequent shortcut for him. He had headphones on, and was unaware that a train was approaching from behind. The engineer honked repeatedly, but the kid was completely oblivious. Trains take a long time to slow down, and the kid was killed instantly. This was no suicide, just a really stupid and avoidable accident.

On drugs/alcohol, suicide method, self-inflicted hearing impairment (headphones), or sheer stupidity (couldn't tell how fast a train was going).

Either of these is lethal.

The bars in downtown Fort Pierce are very close to the tracks and there’s not much separating the tracks from everything else.

He was just walking ON the tracks r13? That still sounds like suicide to me. Eventually a train is going to come.

I guess the line between purposeful suicide and Darwin award can be thin.

My uncle was killed by a train. His car was on the train tracks at night in the rain. He was an alcoholic and everyone assumed it was a drunken mistake.

I’ll never forget my mother getting the phone call (it was her sister’s husband) and telling us kids.

The only pedestrians who get hit by trains are suicidal, drunk or have earbuds in and their eyes locked on their phones.

I was taught as a child to always walk across the train tracks in a way that my shoes have absolutely no chance of getting stuck between the tracks. I'm also always fully aware thanks to having been raised with serious kidnapping fears (my mother's side of the family were sure my estranged father would kidnap me after my mother died). I never walk the streets with ear buds in or with my eyes locked on my phone. That's how people get mugged/killed. Pay attention to your surroundings. Is that really too much to ask?

A girl I went to high school with got hit by a train but she did it on purpose as she was being bullied mercilessly by the popular cunts.

I've read of instances in Japan where people have thrown themselves in front of trains but actually survived. Flesh torn from their bones. Severed limbs. But they lived. Bad news for those who just assume throwing yourself in front of a train is a guarantee of a quick death. It's not.

Apparently approaching trains can be surprisingly quiet. You just don't realize it's there until it's too late. Obviously you shouldn't be walking on the rails anyway but still. Cars can be surprisingly quiet as well, and obviously even more so the electric cars. A few weeks ago I was taking a stroll next to an empty highway and suddenly realized there's a car approaching like 200 ft ahead of me. I hadn't heard it all. That made me understand how easy it is to miss fast moving objects.

r18 Bubbles, are you related to Sausages?

R20 No I'm not. Just like the last several times you've asked me over the past couple of days.

On Big Brother season 17, a contestant named Becky told the houseguests about her run-in with a train.

Becky revealed she was in a horrific train accident last year while she was out for a walk. Apparently, there was a large van in her path so she poked her head around the vehicle to see what was coming around the corner and that's when she got hit in the face by a large locomotive. Becky was badly injured but, thankfully, made a full recovery!

I have never asked you, you fucking cunt. And I shall never ask you anything again, you fucking cunt. May you drown all day long in your essential vaginescence.

[quote]I have never asked you, you fucking cunt. And I shall never ask you anything again, you fucking cunt. May you drown all day long in your essential vaginescence.

So you're claiming there are multiple belligerent assholes like yourself on here who for some reason have all felt the urge over the past couple of days to randomly accuse me of being the same poster you "all" keep bringing up no matter the topic at hand?

Fuck off and die, Bubbles.

I have this fantasy of witnessing a hot guy get killed. Without anyone looking, I take off his shoes and sniff his feets, then take his pants off and smell his crotch and ass.

Aura sensing trains? Are you some sort of train whisperer? OP is a freak.

r26= Jeffrey Dahmer.

Why are trans hitting pedestrians?

[quote]Fuck off and die, Bubbles.

The unhinged Sausages troll is desperate to derail every thread with his Tourette style "fucking cunt" and "die" outbursts. I'm putting you on block now so I don't have to read your insanity anymore and everyone can go back to the actual topic. At least until you delete your cookies (again) and I have to block you yet again.

We have way, way, WAY too many trains in the US where the crossings are at grade. Any time cars, trains and people share an intersection, it's pretty dangerous.

(And if you've ever had to wait 45 minutes for a train to go through an area because it blocks the road, you'll also know it's inconvenient as fuck.)

R26 needs help. Lots and lots of help.

Well, I liked Bubbles’s comment, so there.

[Quote]We have way, way, WAY too many trains in the US where the crossings are at grade. Any time cars, trains and people share an intersection, it's pretty dangerous.

You can't idiot proof the world. If people can't keep themselves from getting hit by a train that's their problem.

OP - get a grip

I had a friend from high school who contracted AIDS and later killed himself by throwing himself in front of a train. He was an only child and his parents never recovered.

I knew a girl who got hit by a train.

And then she DIED.

does the future exist?

Unfortunately, people can't hear a train coming up on them. Believe it or not, trains are silent killers.

Ugh!

Japan has a high train suicide rate. Why do you think they keep making those shinkansen trains? To make death quick and painless.

R37 knew Anna Karenina?

Greg Plit got hit by a Caltrain.

There’s a railroad crossing near me. It’s one of the few ground crossings on Amtrak’s lines in New England. There was a grandmother with a car full of kids who got killed there, not too long ago. It’s on a dead end but people still get killed there. And I don’t know how.

I had a childhood friend who lifted himself up through the tracks from under a bridge. He was decapitated. And yes, alcohol was involved.

I read this was a fake, but who really knows. Apparently, selfies with trains is a thing. It’s very selfish. It often does a job on the train engineer.

Train spotter.

This one is upsetting.

Often times it’s a simple matter of being chased by a maniac and having your car die inexplicably on the tracks.

I think many people don't realize how closely some of us have lived to railway lines. This is my Great-Uncle's old house. We had a thread about this.

Or getting pushed.

There was a harrowing clip a few years ago of three or four teens standing on a track waiting for a train to pass. Unfortunately, they didn't realize the train blaring its horn was approaching at a fast speed on the track they were standing. They were all killed.

I knew a guy who had a fairly serious brain injury from getting down to a NYC subway platform then leaning over to see if a train was coming....he was looking in the wrong direction.

Boston’s subway tunnels contain a series of alcoves. I assume it’s for people to slip into, if a train is coming. Or mY e for a statue of the Virgin, either will do.

r30

Honestly I think it has to do with lack of awareness of trains. There are trains in some places in the US but they aren't everywhere so people aren't really paying attention. When I lived in Japan I was surprised that there were not more accidents even though people live right on top of train tracks. I don't think that there's a massive coverup either because that's not the kind of thing the Japanese press would hide. Yes there are suicides but those are usually people throwing themselves in front of subways, not around the shinkansen or suburban lines.

I first read the thread title as "How do PEDIATRICIANS get hit by trains?" Maybe I do need glasses.

At least I didn't think it was "How do patricians get hit by trains?"

[quote]Becky revealed she was in a horrific train accident last year while she was out for a walk. Apparently, there was a large van in her path so she poked her head around the vehicle to see what was coming around the corner and that's when she got hit in the face by a large locomotive. Becky was badly injured but, thankfully, made a full recovery!

How does one get hit in the face by a train and still have a head? Sounds fishy to me.

I had a friend in high school commit suicide by walking in front of a train.

Just last week a guy visiting the Hamptons was hit and killed.

Encore performance.

He’s going down to the Breaker’s Yard, meaning his service life is over and hereafter he just a source of spare parts. Which is really sad.

This guy didn't get hit by a train, but he was climbing one and was electrocuted. He was 6'5, pretty hot and attending Princeton. He lost 3 of 4 limbs. He's a palliative care doctor now.

He describes it here.

It would not occur to me to climb a train under any circumstance.

There is a game that kids in Britain sometimes play called "chicken" where they dodge oncoming trains. Sometimes it goes wrong and they are killed or lose a couple of limbs.

R60, I might. Instead, I was often drawn to exploring buildings rooftops, or water tower tops. I’m lucky I’ve never been arrested for trespassing.

It seems more and more trans are hitting ordinary people. They must be stopped.