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As someone who regularly rides around trains, all sorts of crossings, even ones where there’s no actual crossing (pic related is technically a 4 way intersection of what is legally defined as a road), if you get hit by a train you got filtered by natural selection.
Trains are huge, loud, and hard to visually miss. They don’t exactly sneak up on you. Even the quietest trains in places where they sound sound their horn, like the middle of nowhere with a passenger train, you still feel it coming if the light isn’t reflecting off of something.
I live around a lot of tracks, a lot of rail traffic, and every year a bunch of people die doing the same things
>going around the barriers out of impatience
>thinking they can beat the train oncoming, or intentionally trying to cut it close for some kind of thrill
>seeing one train end, immediately going past the gate, and getting plastered by the second train the didn’t see coming the other way
