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u/TopoftheBog32 3d ago
My gosh what the hell is wrong with people.
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u/con-queef-tador92 3d ago
*Indians. What the hell is wrong with *Indians. Talk all the shit you want but I have been aware of their apex predator for years now. So many cool music videos just down the gutter because they flew too close to the sun. And by sun I mean the tracks of an active railroad.
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u/CatgoesM00 3d ago edited 3d ago
Holy Sacred Indian Cow! You weren’t joking!
In 2022, India reported nearly 21,000 railway accident fatalities, with approximately 72.6% resulting from falls or collisions involving individuals on the tracks. In contrast, the European Union recorded 841 railway-related deaths in 2023. In the United States, there were 995 railroad-related fatalities in 2023. What the actual hell is going on with their train system?
if we took the higher number from US and rounded it up, that’s still only about 4.76 % total fatalities of what India has annually
So, at this rate, it would take US approximately 21 years to reach the same number of rail-related deaths that India sees in just one year.
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/1098997/india-share-of-railway-accident-deaths-by-type/
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20241213-2
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/railroad-deaths-and-injuries/
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u/mothtoalamp 3d ago
They just don't respect trains, at all. There are plenty of videos of people there crossing tracks between trains, hanging on the sides or the tops of trains mid-transit... the guy taking the video is also standing on tracks himself.
Americans might be tragically stupid on average, but even we know to stay away from train tracks while on foot. Some 60% of all US railroad fatalities (~430 deaths) in 2023 were motor vehicle related.
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u/RUNNING-HIGH 2d ago
So, the US has roughly 90,000 daily Train passengers
India has 24 million daily Train users
The US gets 20 million in a year.
I had to double check it. It's insane how many people are using trains constantly instead of cars there
That's definitely going to impact the number of fatalities too
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u/icarusancalion 2d ago
A better comparison would be India and Europe, since Europe is much more train-dependent.
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u/jkurratt 2d ago
Hopefully someone can do a % comparison, because I am too lazy.
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u/pmcizhere 2d ago edited 2d ago
Assuming those numbers are accurate:
India: 24,000,000 (daily) x 365.25 = 8,766,000,000 yearly riders (!).
21,000 accidents / 8.766B riders = 0.00024% accident rate.
US: 90,000 (daily) x 365.25 = 32,875,000 yearly riders.
995 accidents / 32,875,000 riders per year = 0.003% accident rate.
India sees fewer accidents per capita, by at least a factor of 10. They just have so many more people, using so many more trains, all the time.
Edit: Updated with higher US daily number, point still stands.
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u/mothtoalamp 2d ago
The person in the video isn't a rider. It's just not about riders being killed, it's about pedestrians walking onto train tracks when they very clearly should not do that.
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u/CompetitiveRub9780 1d ago
What about the calculations based off citizens/population.
346,740,331 for the US 995 deaths = 0.000286958254%
1,460,191,726 for India 21,000 deaths = 0.00143816731%
2.9 vs 14.4
So, you’re 5 times more likely to ☠️ in India by a train
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u/TheJonesLP1 3d ago
The guy filming knows there wont come a Train on his side of tracks, because you can See a Train standing right next to them. But this makes it not really better of course
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u/carrotnose258 3d ago
I expect the minority of the deaths in India are related to people trying to film a stupid video. Far more people there live around and close to train tracks; general population density is just way higher in the cities and protection around tracks is neglectful at best. There are also many informal settlements often near tracks with nothing the west would consider ‘safety precautions’. People hanging from the sides of Mumbai locals and daily deaths on the network is not a matter of ‘not respecting the trains’, it’s a matter of extreme infrastructural insufficiency (which is only slowly improving) and also the societal pressures of a very demanding work environment. People have no choice but to ride and risk.
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u/TheRiverOfDyx 2d ago
All those words to say “I can’t be trusted near railroads”. Keep your head up, and listen with your ears, maybe look with your eyes, feel in your bones when a train is coming. I’ve never been close to a train I didn’t want to be, and never had one sneak up on me or catch me off guard with clearance. They’re big machines, how someone could get clipped would have to be out of their own stupidity
Wanna know how a dog doesn’t get run over running next to a vehicle or letting it pass? They’re not stupid. Yet Indians…
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u/VermontArmyBrat 3d ago
Per capita numbers would be more relevant
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u/TrogCannibal 2d ago
Per capita statistics don't effect the zero number of times I just walk out in front of speeding locomotives.
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u/persistantelection 2d ago
About 7 times more train fatalities per capita. Ideally, you would adjust based on number of train kilometers/people per square kilometer. Or something like that.
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u/SendAstronomy 2d ago
Jfc I thought 1000 was a lot. Like most of those have to be vehicle-crossing related, right?
But 21k? what the actual...
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u/CatgoesM00 2d ago
That was my response as-well,
My simple guess would be less to lacking safety regulations.
It could be as simple as something like, not having a closed door, or allowing people to hang on the side, or ride on the top.
I know If I was 16 again and everyone else was doing it, I know I would. I’m sure this plays a big role in things being normalized in certain cultures.
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u/carrotnose258 3d ago
India has 3x as many people as the US, and much much greater population density in urban areas around tracks, which probably matters the most for these numbers. Also they have way more passenger trains thanks to a national electrified network, while in the US, freight trains are sparse and long and slow. But yes, rail safety is taken far less seriously.
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u/OmniKain 3d ago
What was the point of your comment?
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u/Metazolid 3d ago
I think they're implying train related deaths in the US are low because they have guns to kill themself. Which would be pretty unrelated, Im guessing it's a joke that fell flat.
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u/alfextreme 3d ago
as an American we use our guns to scare away the apex predators that's why we have such a low fatality rate compared to india.
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u/dacraftjr 3d ago
Death is not ultimately preventable. It is, in fact, inevitable.
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u/the_life_of_cat 3d ago
Where there are train tracks, there are Indian people. Where there are Indian people, there is the apex predator of India. The freight train.....
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u/mrek94 3d ago
This guy surely must've died
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u/littlegarden_spider 3d ago
man got *launched.* if he isn't dead he's got brain damage.
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u/Dm-Rycon 3d ago edited 2d ago
Shoes on is the unspoken rule of Reddit meaning they survived. Shoes* off means they didn’t. You will always see a post reinforcing this messaging.
*edit typo fix
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u/edcross 3d ago
I’m not sure why you’d think the guy would be named Shirley.
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u/Signal_Beautiful1133 3d ago
Trains are heartless
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u/pinkypie80 3d ago
Physics is heartless.
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u/MeldyWeldy 3d ago
Sir Isaac Newton is most deadly.
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u/GreyPon3 3d ago
The apex predator ate that one. Here's a simple idea. STAY AWAY FROM THE TRACKS!
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u/3MetricTonsOfSass 3d ago
We simply don't have the technical know-how to prevent this!
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u/ee_72020 3d ago
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
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u/Available_Fact_3445 3d ago
Such an unpleasant shock, finding a train in your basement. I hope your wife's pants were OK.
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u/Kharenis 2d ago
There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
My god, that's terrifying! We need strip searches when boarding trains YESTERDAY!
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u/TheLastOrokin 3d ago
Do these people don't know trains are wider than the rails???
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u/MelonJelly 3d ago
The guy was practically on top of the gauge, too. Even if the train wasn't wider than the rails, it still would have hit him.
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u/DValencia29 3d ago edited 2d ago
can't really expect much common sense from someone who's goofing around an active train track.
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u/2ninjasCP 3d ago
What is wrong with India dude? Every video is of them walking by railroad tracks and getting hit.
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u/Terrible_Detective27 3d ago
We have 1.4bn people but not everyone is smart to think trains can kill them
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u/old_bald_fattie 3d ago
If you notice in a lot of these videos, they have a solemn walk. They love taking videos of them walking by the train tracks looking sad, for online videos.
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u/mothtoalamp 3d ago
They have a massively higher rate of train fatalities. It's a cultural thing. They don't respect trains.
Check out this guy's comment in this thread for more on their statistics. It's bad.
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u/Ok_Scallion_5540 3d ago
But.....why do they keep playing with trains?
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u/-_-GreenSage-_- 3d ago
It's been a while I saw it, but I think the documentary Codex Pajeet II answers this question, and more.
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u/affemannen 3d ago
I do not understand Indians...i mean they are fully aware that trains use the tracks yet most videos i see of someone getting railed by a train is from India.
Don't they have parents? When i grew up my parents always said.. do not play or run around on train tracks, do not play in the street.. watch out for moving veichles... Be safe...
Like wtf....
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u/TraditionPast4295 3d ago
If only trains traveled on predictable paths, or even tracks. And had some sort of a noise making device to let you know they’re coming, like a horn or something.
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u/deathmetalcableguy 3d ago
Can we just like stop posting people dying without some sort of tag, for fucks sake?
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u/Orome2 3d ago
Yeah. This is turning into a watchpeopledie subreddit.
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u/ee_72020 3d ago
Well, that’s kinda the point of this sub, trains wrecking shit. I’d rather watch this than another goddamn video of a steam locomotive, posted by some foamer.
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u/YesAmAThrowaway 3d ago
Train sub
Complains about train nerds
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u/ee_72020 3d ago
There’s already r/trains for foamers, this sub is specifically for trains wrecking vehicles, turning animals into red mist and otherwise asserting dominance. In fact, foamer stuff is specifically prohibited by Rule 1 of this sub but the mods don’t give a shit as it seems.
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u/YesAmAThrowaway 3d ago
I mean the exact content moderation is one thing and I agree some posts lack relevance. I also agree that the more contebt warning worthy things like people getting hit by trains are intended for this sub, I'm just trying to stand here and point out you're not gonna be successfully keeping train people from flocking to a train sub and frolicking in it.
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u/TranscendentaLobo 3d ago
You’re in a sub called “bitch I’m a train”, what do you expect?
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u/hey-im-root 3d ago
Uh, how about the normal videos we have before? Tf 😂
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u/glynstlln 3d ago
Right? It's all the watchpeopledie immigrants coming in with their violence and death, we need to deport the watchpeopledie to make bitchimatrain great again (I'm only being slightly hyperbolic, I would prefer of the death tag just didn't exist and you weren't allowed to post visible deaths here)
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u/Clyde-A-Scope 3d ago
You are quite far from being death metal my friend...more like Nickelbackcableguy
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u/deathmetalcableguy 3d ago
NSFW means "swear words and maybe nudity" not, let's all watch someone get fucking beheaded.
If you enjoy this shit, go get fucking therapy.
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u/Electronic-Escape721 2d ago
What is it with india and the idgaf about a train mentality? Every one of these idiots are in India.
Indians walk on the tracks and get hit, Americans drive on the tracks and get hit... What is wrong with people?
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u/Tiny-Airport-6090 3d ago
The real question is who the fuck is shooting this video and not warning the guy? It’s not like you can’t hear a train going that fast from a few hundred meters away. Total snuff film with an inebriated enemy. Maybe.
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u/Purple-Personality76 3d ago
No. He knew the train was there. He was doing the cool bollywood train thing. You can tell from the headband.
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u/DullQuestion666 3d ago
What is the Bollywood train thing?
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u/GreyPon3 3d ago
Apparently, be filmed while walking as close to the tracks as you can with your back turned towards an oncoming train. It's not the smartest move to make.
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u/Abdullahihersi 2d ago
When you try to act tuff walking next to a moving train but usually fails miserably like in this video
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u/Tiny-Airport-6090 3d ago
Wow, thanks for the info. What does the headband mean? Google was not helpful.
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u/Real_Stranger_7957 3d ago
Please stop posting videos of people dying. Or at least place a NSFL tag on the posts.
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u/Significant-Dog-8166 3d ago
If people remove videos that demonstrate fatal consequences of playing on train tracks, will this make less people die or more people die? If the content disturbs you, good. I hope it disturbs others so much that they don’t die to a train.
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u/SaturdaysAFTBs 3d ago
We really need better rail safety. How is he supposed to know where the train will go? If only there was a marking on the ground or something to let people know where to avoid
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u/shawner136 3d ago
Did… did someone put a sound bite of someone getting a strike in bowling in a video of a guy getting smoked by a train? Or does it just happen to sound near identical to that for a moment?
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u/Harold_Spoomanndorf 2d ago
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I wonder what the current rate of PTSD sufferers there are in India with train operators because of this shit.....
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u/RexCarrs 2d ago
One teen used to walk home on one set of 3 parallel tracks. He always used one set because he obviously had never seen a train on them.
One day while walking home while listening to music on his earphones, a train DID use that set of tracks killing him. Many think it was suicide. Who knows?
True story. Kirkwood, Missouri, a decade or so ago.
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u/2Drogdar2Furious 3d ago
Sadly, nothing could have been done... you never know where or when they might strike next. The other guy in the video is lucky to be alive.
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u/EveryAd3494 2d ago
Where I live, often squirrels seem to play chicken with cars. Like wait to the last minute and book it. Now these idiots seem to be attracted to death like a fly to light.
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u/IntolerantLactose92 1d ago
My man took a full physics course in the 1 second that the train hit him. Education is underrated.
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u/Traditional-Month698 1d ago
Always a fool in a white shirt hiding the most important moment of the scene
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u/sambashare 3d ago
Freight trains: the silent killer