Cambridgeshire cyclist ignores warnings... and just manages to brake before train speeds through

It's a sad state of affairs that you have to write that 'Stumps' but

Ignore the cock jockeys and carry on.

Maybe she just thought "I'm a cyclist....that red light doesn't apply to me."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-24401099

The half-barrier design is there to provide that escape route if a car stalls or other problem occurs but puts a major obstruction in the way for going on to the crossing.

NR got fined (Section 3 HSAW - Duty of Care towards non-employees) at Elsenham because the the pedestrian gates were not interlocked with main barriers, and the issue of pedestrian abuse was known about but not addressed.

The death at Little Mill and 2 other cyclist deaths investigated by RAIB all had clear indication that the cyclists had switched off their 24/7 360 degree safety equipment - in the case referred to the cyclist had passed 2 walkers with hood up and audible music to the 2 walkers. They shouted at the cyclist to stop as they arrived at the crossing immediately behind him, but the cyclist gave no reaction to being shouted at, the noise of a train making a full emergency brake application, and sounding the horn full blast. If that doesn't clearly show the total stupidity of using any form or earphones, or other elements to block your hearing when cycling, walking AND driving then maybe we do need a law to make all drivers drive with a window down and radio/phone speakers at a low volume.

I've heard similar stories to your friend's, Old Ridgeback, from a guy who was running a track walking training course I was attending. The tale of the suicide who put his neck on the track and was beheaded would make your toes curl. Personally I think the railways get too much flak over level crossings. The warning signs, flashing lights, barriers and what is stated in the highway code about level crossing should deter people enough from doing this sort of stupid behaviour.

Where's Darwin when you need him?

Was it Emma Way? I mean I know she IS a cyclist, and she has that amount of disregard for safety?

This was on Jeremy Vine earlier. It gave the usual mouth-breathers the opportunity to roll out their hilarious generalisations despite Vine mentioning the fact that there were 50% more fatalities to car drivers/passengers than cyclists on level crossings last year.

Natural selection in action!

As far as I am aware there is a rolling programme to replace single barriers with double barriers.

Perhaps in the meantime window lickers like the lady in the video should not be allowed out on their own.

I like how she didn't quite know what to do afterwards, from the massive adrenalin injection. Like Uran after his crash at the weekend.

Do you think she decided to turn back to get some fresh underwear?

Ok lets get this straight i put comments on here because i want to and personally i dont give a flying fcuk what you, Northstar, think about me or my job but if you get your kicks from trying to be clever fill your boots mate because in the end you are only making yourself look stupid.

And to be honest i have been called a lot worse by people a lot better than you.

Farrell - do you honestly expect myself and others to believe that because there is only one barrier then the other side is safe ????

So that's where the 'wipes forehead with relief' thing comes from then...

Ok, so someone does something really stupid and ignores obvious safety warnings, and once again it's Stumpy's fault as he's a cop.

I despair.

I regularly use a railway crossing when going to one popular South London cycling facility. The barriers do seem to linger in the down position for some time. I've seen a few people crossing when the barriers are lowered as I wait impatiently in the queue, but I've never felt the need to rush across with them.

I know train drivers suffer a lot of psychological issues with regard to suicides and accidental deaths from crossing incidents that don't have such a happey ending as this one. A friend of mine used to work for BR (as it was then) and one of his jobs was to check whether a loco was safe to be moved after it'd hit someone. His description of having to crawl under a loco stopped on the rails and disentangle what was left of a human being from the drive system was rather graphic.

I used to work for Railtrack, Network Rails predecessor going to local rail committee's to discuss their concerns and wishes for the line along with the relevant train operators. On one occasion I had to defend the railway network because a young man had done the same thing (in a car) but was not so lucky.....

Not a nice thing to do when someone is dead because they ignored signs, bells and barriers.

And she was filtering through on the right side, but otherwise completely brainless. Another example of care in the community not workiing?

At least her brakes work.

Flippin eck, that was close.
A much more effective reminder for taking proper care than any of those expensively produced TV ad campaigns, cos you know this one is actually real.
Scary.
Trains are big and fast.
Also, what an idiot.

My wife will always go the long way to avoid level crossings as she doesn't trust them even when the barriers are open, but that might be a bit of an over-reaction. still, she's never been hit by a train so it must be working.

As a cyclist I get this from pedestrians all the time, they don't even bother to look if they don't hear a car's engine, it's really quite unbelievable how natural selection has allowed this sort of thing to exist today - maybe Darwin's theory has a hole in it somewhere....

As a cyclist surviving 50 years in central London my sympathy is with the train driver...that he braked was a human response but put passengers on the train at risk for an idiot who should have suffered the consequences of her stupidity.

To call her a stupid cow is a serious insult to cows.

Mind you, I was irritated to see this report on Google News under the 'Sport' heading.

Just last week I saw a guy / runnist / joggler almost get lifted off his feet by a barrier he was trying to hurdle (well, when I say hurdle, perhaps clamber is more accurate). No idea what he was trying to achieve. But, I'm sure waiting a few minutes to get his breath back would have improved his run time. Certainly would have been a better achievement than ending it as a dead person.

This sort of stuff makes my brain ache. I think there must be some sort of competition going on out there to see who can be the biggest f***wit!

Jeezuz

I sincerely hope she never gets a driving licence.