Please mind the gap between the platform and the train

[wendigo100]

You do have to wonder why some people are even let out, let alone out with a driving license!

Were the big thick metal lines not a giveaway enough?

Because it was dark, she didn't know they were there until she tripped over them walking toward the other "farmer's gate". By then of course, it was too late.

I blame the SatNav - for directing her off her own driveway in the first place.

[wendigo100]

Used to get daft bints like this all the time. Usually called the fire brigade to collect the pieces.

Or hose them into the undergrowth.

[threaded]

...for directing her off her own driveway in the first place.

You might have a point there! Some of the technology we build makes things way too easy for utter idiots to do stuff they really should not be allowed to do.

[threaded]

Or hose them into the undergrowth.

Had one outside Doncaster where they were collecting the pieces and they ended up with too many fingers. Oh my lord the paperwork. A few months later they found the spare head stuck in grease under an engine when it was in being serviced.

[Burdock]

For those of you that don't know, this is the correct sequence, whether you are horse riding or driving.

1. At the gate stop
2. Contact the signaller
3. If you don't get the all clear, wait until you do so.
4. Open the gate on your side.
5. Walk across the line, quickly but do not run, and open the gate the far side.
6. Go back to your vehicle/horse and cross quickly
7. Park up and go and close the first gate
8. Cross back and close the second gate
9. Contact the signaller to give the all-clear

It's not worth taking a risk.

How many of these manual crossings are there around? I've never seen one.

[Kyajae]

A while back I found myself in crawling traffic due to a race event, looked up and saw there was rail barrier on a line with the middle of my bonnet, traffic ahead and behind and nowhere to go. Scary. So pissed off with the traffic I hadn't noticed the sodding level crossing.

That posting was completely incomprehensible!

[EqualOpportunities]

That posting was completely incomprehensible!

Some time ago I found myself in crawling traffic due to a race event. I looked up and saw there was rail barrier on a line with the middle of my bonnet, meaning that I was straddling the lines. As there was traffic ahead and behind, I had nowhere to go. It was scary. I was so pissed off with the traffic, I hadn't noticed the sodding level crossing.

[sparklelard]

These crossings are normally in rural areas. Some are for vehicles and some are for pedestrians only.

I live in Cornwall and there are hundreds. The pedestrian ones normally have a plate stating look and listen for trains.

Normally, if a train is coming and you are near to the line, the tracks will sing. If you hear the singing, you have seconds to get out of the way.

I was part of a PWAY gang and we went out packing sleepers, attending bridge strikes and generally clearing the crap from the other gangs who were too lazy to pick up there own rubbish.

We did once have a job to pack ballast under sleepers at St. Ives Station. I think we annoyed the local hoteliers when we started using jack hammers at 11pm right outside their windows. Good job we couldn't hear what they were saying!

[threaded]

Sheet, I've just read she's a second year at Birmingham University... How the fsck did she get through the first year!

My lord, good looks and a pleasant smile can get you a long way I guess.

[Board Game Geek]

I am stunned....surely the gates would have had large signs saying "Warning ! s0dding great big scary trains coming this way" on them....jeeze what a numpty.

And let's suppose she missed them.....did the effing great steel rails not give her a clue that she was in dangerous territory ?

Sat-Nav is an excellent tool, but it is no excuse to abdicate commonsense and situational awareness...providing she had these qualities in the first place, which by all accounts she did not.

But some people...once they have Sat-Nav, they turn their single brain cells off and wait to be instructed on every step of the journey, in the mistaken belief that their Sat-Nav will see them alright.

Hmmm....I wonder if we can convince Tom-Tom to make a "Turn Now" at Beachy Head version for the Chavs.....