Video shows moment car collides with SunRail train in Florida

Video has been released in a deadly SunRail crash involving a vehicle in Kissimmee. The Florida Department of Transportation said the gates were operational at the time. WARNING: This video may be hard to watch. Viewer discretion is advised.

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[GH-oijf]

He went through a gate that was down. This is proof that the problem isn’t that the gates don’t close both sides of the street. The problem is careless drivers.

[IgorRockt]

Driving through closed barriers? That's worthy of a Darwin award right there.

[ronniecarter]

Don’t matter if you put up a thousand signs and bullhorns sounding alarms… YOU CANT FIX STUPID

[sv]

Note to driver's: Train wins EVERY time.

This one looks almost like a suicide.

[kishasmith]

It has nothing to do with the area, It's the people driving trying to beat the train.

[horroreader]

I've been wait the railroad for 3 years and I still remember the face of the person killed by my train only days after I was out of training. The look of pure frozen terror. I found myself screaming in the cab "get out" over and over again as if they could hear me after the brakes were applied. It was right outside of Indianapolis at 2am. They eventually woke up from being frozen by fear and tried to backup off the tracks but backed into a dirt hill. My locomotive passed by and ripped off his front bumper, however one of the auto rack cars hooked the front and dragged the car into the side of a building past the crossing. He died from being crushed between the building. I still to this day wish I would've just taken 20 extra minutes to use the bathroom or something or even just left a few cars behind so the whole thing could've been avoided. It was hard for me to talk to my wife for weeks after that. Let things like this be a lesson. Regardless of who they are or what they did or who they have, there is ALWAYS, someone that's affected by these deaths. And it falls especially hard on us because we will almost always inevitably feel as if the blood was on our hands. Don't risk it. I case you need to hear it, I care about your life too much to wanna see this happen to you. Please take the extra few minutes. Your life means more to me than the alternative.

[richarddrum]

Driving through crossing gates will generally get you killed, trains can’t stop like cars. Feel sorry for the engineer who has to deal with that person’s death every day.

[mistiinseattle]

When I lived in Fort Lauderdale I was amazed at how many people tried outpacing the train stop arms coming down and racing across the tracks. you are no match for a train.

[markbeckham]

You don't have to be a Rhodes scholar to understand to NOT drive through the closed gates!

[theresacaron]

I once rode in the cab of a CN freight train as a guest. We were going through a town and our speed limit was 20 mph for a short section of track. 3 kids decided to play chicken by sitting between the tracks and waiting for the last moment to vacate. Two kids quickly stood up and left, the third one stumbled to one knee and disappeared from view leaving us wondering if he got away. We then saw him throwing up as we went by. Had we been going just a bit faster he would have died. So, yes, people do stupid things around trains and some die because of it.

[lutomson]

poor engineers having to deal with this stupid people killing themselves

[Tegridyvs]

I feel for the engineer of that train. These kind of incidents are hard to deal with. I’ve had an accident myself like this but it was an actual pedestrian. He didn’t survive and it really is hard for us railroaders to deal with this. We understand there’s nothing we could’ve done to prevent it but it’s just the carelessness of these individuals that really weighs on us. All we ever ask ourselves is “why did they do this?” Sadly it’s answers we’ll never get most of the time

[lynnt]

I am sorry for the person's death, but that was totally preventable. When are people going to realize; you CAN'T outrun a train! You DON'T go through a crossing gate, or around it! I never saw so many people not have any value for their own lives!

[deputy]

The driver drove right through the warning stop gate, amazing.

[eveskey]

I was taught by my railroad grandfather and father to slow down before crossing and do a look in both directions of the track. They said do not worry if someone behind gets mad and honks if you slow down, that my life was more important than the drivers attitude behind me to spare a few secs.

[K-ON_YuiHirasawa]

Literally, patience is a matter of life and death.

[jillconner]

Imagine the utter lack of awareness it takes to be hit by a train? Probably on the phone.

[puffnstuff]

Considering that the driver plowed right through the gate I tend to believe they were distracted driving.

[rpmnight]

Finally a headline that is accurate in this type of situation. Usually the headlines make it sound like the train’s fault.

[SIGINT]

This isn't news. This is a careless driver not paying attention to the road around them.