Man survives collision between train and lorry

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Sat 7 Mar 2009 03:12
Man survives collision between train and lorry - Dynamic Dave
A Turkish man declared that "life is beautiful" after he survived a collision between a lorry and a train that was captured on CCTV.

tinyurl.com/dn9gqb (links to www.telegraph.co.uk)

EDIT:- found some more footage on BBC. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7925009.stm


With that kind of luck I'd be buying a lottery ticket at the weekend if I was him.

Edited by Dynamic Dave on 07/03/2009 at 03:13

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Sat 7 Mar 2009 05:51
Man survives collision between train and lorry - L'escargot
More fool him for being so close to the railway lines.
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Sat 7 Mar 2009 10:23
Man survives collision between train and lorry - bathtub tom
Could he have been the banksman, helping the lorry driver to reverse and making sure there wasn't a train coming?
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Sat 7 Mar 2009 10:46
Man survives collision between train and lorry - motorprop
looks like he was meant to be watching out for trains - obviously wasn't looking in the right direction, should have been on other side of tracks anyway, his helmet wasn't strapped on, and then his colleagues ran over and tried lifting him as he lay there


A very lucky man indeed
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Sat 7 Mar 2009 14:57
Man survives collision between train and lorry - Dynamic Dave
his helmet wasn't strapped on


Whenever I've had to previously wear hard hats, they've never had straps.
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Sat 7 Mar 2009 15:06
Man survives collision between train and lorry - rtj70
helping the lorry driver to reverse


But the lorry was going forwards. Whatever the circumstances he was extremely lucky to be alive. And yet he had minor injuries. Onlookers must have thought the worst until the trailer has passed over him.
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Sat 7 Mar 2009 15:16
Man survives collision between train and lorry - Lud
A very lucky man indeed. If the train had been a second or so earlier or later he would be maimed or dead.
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Sat 7 Mar 2009 16:11
Man survives collision between train and lorry - frazerjp
It looked as though he went through the coupling between the tractor unit & the trailer, otherwise he would have been mincemeat being hit by the loaded container trailer.
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Sat 7 Mar 2009 16:51
Man survives collision between train and lorry - Avant
There was a headline some years ago 'Man hit by train "critical" '...

I'd have been furious.....:)
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Sat 7 Mar 2009 17:10
Man survives collision between train and lorry - ijws15
Although it looks fast the train was probably only doing 4-5mph, otherwise it would have gone a few hundred feet past rather than the 2 wagon lengths it did.

The train was reversing so in the UK there would have been a "shunter" walking with the train within sight of the train driver (driver follows the shunter's signals (railway version of a banksman)

To me it looks like he went between the wheels and coupling under the side rigger, biggest bang would probably be head on concrete!
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Sat 7 Mar 2009 19:06
Man survives collision between train and lorry - Spospe
Was anyone else hurt? Truck driver, train crew?
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