Video: Train smashes BMW after driver turns onto Metro Blue Line tracks in South LA

Kav79 · 03-05-2020, 02:59 PM

Looks like an E39 5 Series. Doubt this guy would have been as lucky had he been in a lesser car.

https://abc7.com/5986688/

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video...SdhjwmKnb.m3u8

racerbruce · 03-05-2020, 05:23 PM

And was hit in the driver door....

E93_Savage · 03-05-2020, 05:43 PM

I call attempted suicide

Burrcold · 03-05-2020, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by dailydrivens30

I call attempted suicide

I was thinking that as well, but he could have just been making a U turn and didn't see the train

FQ06 · 03-05-2020, 07:18 PM

You know there was a red left turn light for him, guess he didn't have time to wait. I see that stuff all the time in LA, that guy just picked the wrong place to drive like an ass.

Edit: there was even a gate down that he went around, Darwin award

///M Power-Belgium · 03-05-2020, 07:23 PM

Blinded by the sun ?
Dope ?
Sleepwalker/driver ?
Stuntman ?

chassis · 03-05-2020, 07:42 PM

Minor injuries. Unbelievable.

jmg · 03-05-2020, 10:31 PM

Idiot

rak299 · 03-06-2020, 01:07 AM

The fact that the guy survived means that Darwin failed to predict correctly.

GuidoK · 03-06-2020, 01:41 AM

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Originally Posted by FQ06

Edit: there was even a gate down that he went around, Darwin award

He actually even hit that gate. (slightly with the passenger side of his windscreen, you can see the gate move, before he hits the train)

So either very much blinded by the sun or thought he could beat that train.

MmmmmM2 · 03-06-2020, 12:32 PM

What a maroon.

positiveions · 03-06-2020, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Burrcold

I was thinking that as well, but he could have just been making a U turn and didn't see the train

No, F-ed LA drivers are morons without a reasonable doubt. They will try to beat anything including trains. No patience!

yco · 03-06-2020, 12:36 PM

his life is saved by few inches..

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Kav79 Private 33 Rep 55 Posts Drives: F30 335d xdrive LCI Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Merseyside, UK iTrader: (0)	Video: Train smashes BMW after driver turns onto Metro Blue Line tracks in South LA Looks like an E39 5 Series. Doubt this guy would have been as lucky had he been in a lesser car. https://abc7.com/5986688/ https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video...SdhjwmKnb.m3u8
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racerbruce Brigadier General 3877 Rep 3,004 Posts Drives: 21 X3 & 13 335is E93 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Seattle iTrader: (1)	And was hit in the driver door....
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E93_Savage Private First Class 153 Rep 108 Posts Drives: 73 240z , 09 335i Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Oakland, CA iTrader: (0)	I call attempted suicide
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FQ06 Registered 3 Rep 3 Posts Drives: 06 Subaru STI... for sale soon Join Date: Dec 2019 Location: Los Angeles iTrader: (0)	You know there was a red left turn light for him, guess he didn't have time to wait. I see that stuff all the time in LA, that guy just picked the wrong place to drive like an ass. Edit: there was even a gate down that he went around, Darwin award Last edited by FQ06; 03-05-2020 at 07:44 PM..
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