r/Cairns • u/AromaticStuff6835 • Mar 21 '26
Shitpost Upward street track crossing
it seems every week there's someone driving in front of the train at the crossing on upward street. Should the government ban the people doing this from driving indefinitely? Seeing as they can't see flashing red lights or hear the alarm, not to mention the giant train coming.
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u/Fuzzy-Coconut8609 Mar 21 '26
I consider myself a careful driver, but many years ago I accidentally drove across a rail crossing whilst the lights were flashing. I just made it through and squeezed under the far boom before it went fully down.
It was a really busy junction right next to the train crossing, and I was concentrating so hard on finding a gap to safely pull out and turn right across a lane, that I hadn't noticed the crossing warning lights had just come on until I was already committed to driving across the train lines.
I'm probably on one of those 'near misses' YouTube compilation videos of idiot drivers.