OT... 3 Wheeler Vs Train

its the new uk sport, reliant & train banger racing lol

How lucky was he. A gnats whisker earlier and...... splat.

A shade confused by the check under the bonnet. Had he read the 'Why Honest John is a tosser' thread in uk.rec.driving about the Fiat Panda?

maybe he thought the train was his engine and it had fell out.

Probably just in shock. How rational would you be if you'd just escaped death my a whisker and been rattled around in a plastic box? Suppose he was wondering why the engine had stopped.

Tim

I did wonder if he had been sitting in the car trying to start it.

Given that you see him driving onto the crossing, no.

OT, but has anyone else got a problem viewing this in WMP9 ?

I have two PCs here, my machine (new Dell) looks like its using the wrong codec, whereas my wifes' (18 month old) machine plays it fine.

Running it through media player classic seems to correct the problem to a large extent (does anyone else see glitchy "flashes" throughout ?) but even reinstalling WMP9 still hasn't got it playing properly :-(

I don't think the original is exactly great quality.. but it plays fine on WMP 10.00

It's a bit glitchy on WMP10 here.

Working within the rail industry I have to mention that matey boy was bloody lucky to walk out of that pitch in. We had a recent fatality at Willingdon, the investigation is still ongoing at the moment, in which a nice woman drove her mini onto the level crossing in front of the Down stopper to Eastbourne, it had just departed Berwick.

The OTMR unit on the train showed not the slightest deviation or downward kick in speed at the point where the front of the tran hit the car, it was as if the car was not there. However, the mini was stoved in and thrown to one side like a discarded childs toy. The only damage to the train was some busted fibreglass frontage and a couple of ruptured air lines, the 150 tons of the 4 car unit just soaked it up (impact was around 50mph, decelerating in emergency). I suspect we just got lucky that day considering Ufton Nervet and it's aftermath. We had two incidents on the same day prior to Willingdon, a car stuck on the crossing near Billingshurst (flat pack car after) and a guy who drove through the barriers at Southbourne just as the up express was going through (the car was shredded, the unit ended up with its front coach on the floor, tearing up 300 yards of track, signalling cable and obliterating a lineside relay room), both were just down to luck at the end of the day that the outcome was thankfully very fortunate.

I have no time whatsoever for these p**cks who want to gamble with their lives and the lives of people on the train by running level crossings. Why can't they just do us all a favour and take up a slightly lesser dangerous sport like driving off Beachy Head where they can only hurt themselves?

PDH

Ummm... It was a two car unit doing about 20MPH

The driver didnt even see the car and just dropped the lot after hearing the crunch.

Tom Burton

That`s what I ended up doing - worked fine then...

For some reason it appears my WMP9 didn`t have the WMP9 codecs installed by default !

The message from Colin Wilson contains these words:

I had the same trouble here. Turned out the odious Apple Quicktime installer had done what I explicitly told it not to and taken over loads of functions. I /hate/ that bloody installer.

Oh, and if anyone's fed up with Apple's Quicktime updater (qttask.exe) starting up with their machine every time, just deleting it won't work because it replaces it. Rename it, instead, to something like qttask.oldexe and it won't bother you again.

Yes but that's not what he was talking about.

IMO barrierless crossings shouldn't be allowed as you'll always get some eejit who can't figure out where the stop pedal is.

Don't I know it. Ever since whatever version of WMP it was that could automatically stream any content was released, it's been an absolute godsend to not need to wait for mp3/avi/wmv files to fully download, but since installing Quicktime it's changed to the quicktime player for mp3s at least, whereby it appears to download the whole file before playing, despite me telling it not to in the settings....

Those videos seemed to work fine, though some software's messed around with my associations...

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By extension Pelican crossings should have barriers. I saw a dopey old git go straight through a red light on one in front of me this morning.

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 12:41:51 +0100, I waved a wand and this message magically appeared from Guy King:

Nah, have tyre shredders embedded in the road, so if someone drives through during a red light, their tyres gets destroyed.

They also did experiments on completely open crossings out in the middle of nowhere in the US. If they cut back trees along the route so you could see trains coming from miles off, people raced them, and sometimes lost.

Let the trees block the sightlines until you get right to the crossing and they were much safer.

I guess it's like the high sight barriers that have started to appear on the approach to some roundabouts all over the place.

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Canada, I believe.

Well, same side of the pond, innit.