America's deadliest train that kills someone every two weeks

Daily Mail UK ^ | July 15, 2025 | Lauren Acton-Taylor

[Morgana]

"Brightline's dangerous reputation has spurred controversy for years, and as the first few deaths occurred in 2018 the company faced backlash for 'victim blaming.' "

I don't blame the train company either.

Do people not realize the trains have the right of way on their rails at all times day and night?

Are you kids not taught train safety in schools? You know between their LGBT and sex ed studies? ha ha ha ha ha

Do they not teach train safety in drivers ed anymore?

Are people really this retarded and getting a Darwin award every two weeks?

[T.B. Yoits]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I’m gonna side with the train company.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

your trains are killing people

They make it sound like the trains are getting off the tracks and hunting people down.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I lived in Palm Beach County for about a dozen years, and this issue had become conspicuous before I left in 2024. I would suggest that an attempt be made to parse out the suicides. Not saying the problem goes away entirely, but it wouldn’t be so shocking after those are removed. After you take out the suicides, then cross-tabulate by age of driver, previous driving record, and level of intoxicants. I’m sure some marginal improvements can be made, but until you have lived there and seen the problem of people driving around barriers, you really won’t understand.

[catnipman]

how difficult is it to stop and to carefully look both ways before crossing a railroad track, whether in a car, on a bike, or walking? ... is this a nationwide problem or only in florida?

[sjmjax]

According to most media reports, SUVs do the same thing!
Rampage through crowds, careen down sidewalks, run red lights….

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Well, they do run red lights. I see it every time I go into town.

[V_TWIN]

Ironically my wife and I watched a couple of train v/s vehicles on youtube last night.

Videos were worldwide.....they all looked to me like stupidity on the part of the impatient vehicle operators.

[Morgana]

I found this video of Brightline Train Crash Compilations. The majority are cars/people who crossed the closed crossing gate. Some are of cars stalled or trucks stuck on the tracks. One was on the tracks in the middle of nowhere so how he got there I have no clue.

It’s amazing to watch because even up against an 18 wheeler a train wins every time. A train’s only equal is another train.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPxJnPQsBU

[alternatives?]

With double tracks in rural areas you need to wait until the train on your side clears until you can see far enough down the track on the opposite side. If there are lights, sometimes people think the lights are slow but it is just a train running the opposite way.

[Disambiguator]

How many passengers or rail employees have died?

I would guess zero.

This was a problem with the railroad operation in Gallup, New Mexico (probably still is). Drunks crossing the tracks and sometimes passing out right on the tracks.

[BipolarBob]

I’m gonna have to drive down there and see this for myself. I feel strangely attracted to things like this.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Lots of them are suicides.

The rest are the same people who cut off 18-wheelers in heavy traffic.

Not much that can be done. Maybe teach Newton's Laws of Motion?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Or they could play this song on heavy rotation.

Dumb Ways to Die

[mikey_hates_everything]

Judge for yourself where the problem lies.

Brightline Train Crash Compilation

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I was about 5 years old when my mother told me not to play on the train tracks. I believed her, and didn't need to test her theory.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Trains, like the large 18 wheeler trucks, cannot stop on a dime. WHEREVER we are, in town, on a day trip, or driving cross country, I am VERY careful about any kinds of rail tracks. In the city, it can be called “light rail.” If there is a guard gate that comes down, when it lifts to let us pass, I look both ways TWICE. If we are out in the boonies with no gates, I am even more careful. If some idiot behind us starts honking for us to go faster, I just pull over and let the fool pass.

[Larry Lucido]

+1

[TalBlack]

This article reminds me of an accident between a van full of teens and a Long Island Railroad train back about ‘78. The driver decided to race the train to the intersection , which was gated and had flashing red lights and clanging bells. He and the ten or fifteen others lost. That van spewed bodies for a hundred yards or some damn thing. To hear the media tell it for weeks afterward the fault was with the LIRR . They pounded away on that note until people were sick of it.

If you can’t stay out of the way of a train I don’t know who or what can help you.