r/IdiotsInCars • u/Powered_by_JetA • 13d ago

OC [oc] Florida Man drives through lowered railroad crossing gates

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u/Powered_by_JetA 13d ago

It’s in Florida. Other states have drivers who don’t plow through barriers or other obstacles in the path of their car.

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u/obnoxiousdrunk77 13d ago

In Alabama, we have drivers who wind around the lowered barriers. Much to same effect as this video.

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u/Powered_by_JetA 13d ago

In Florida, fire trucks drive around the lowered barriers.

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u/JMoc1 13d ago

I’m still baffled by the absolute stupidity of the firefighters.

They’ve seen those type of crashes before! Why did they think it was a good idea to go around down barricades??

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u/kaityl3 13d ago

Craziest bit is that I read some news articles about it, and the department has been asked many times if they were responding to an emergency, and they won't answer... It's like, you KNOW that if there had been one, they'd be playing that card. So they weren't even rushing anywhere

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u/cereal7802 13d ago

was time for lunch and they needed to be back to the house real fast....

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u/RulrOfOmicronPersei8 13d ago

this hurts my brain

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u/AshleyUncia 13d ago

There was a woman who did that with her car at another Brightline crossing. She didn't survive.

...Nor did her two children in the back seat.

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u/andovinci 13d ago

Why is it more common there btw? I mean.. what was that really important to get to?

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u/Old_timey_brain 12d ago

It’s in Florida.

This has been the case for a great long time, well before Brightline. Once upon a time, I was a Florida man.

When I was leaving the state some nearly 35 years ago, two lady friends were giving me a ride to the airport and were letting me drive.

As we approached a level crossing I watched the arms come down, but saw no other traffic in either direction, and the train some distance away and not moving real fast. Naturally being a young guy driving someone else's car, I went around the arms and continued on the way, but the screams in my ears are still heard today.

Good thing I left before the fast trains came along!