Talk about heart racing. . . for no reason
@GardenGerty (170693)
United States
September 24, 2026 4:55pm CST
My route to Winfield goes straight through the center of El Dorado. I looked down the road and saw red and blue flashing lights, and made sure I was going slow.
Looking again there were even more lights, on both sides of the street.
Not to fear, it was a "safety event".
Troopers were passing out small key chains along with information cards about safety at railroad crossings.
I always said that car/train collisions were some of the most avoidable accidents. You KNOW where the train is going to be, on the track. The safest thing is to stay off the track when one is coming.
Do not drive around barriers.
Do not try to beat the train to the crossing.
I am glad that four law enforcement vehicles on the road on both sides did NOT represent danger this time.
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@Ineeddentures (45943)
•
15h
I never like seeing cops on the road.
Wonder why people do drive around the barriers when a train is on the way
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@GardenGerty (170693)
• United States
13h
1. They think they are in a hurry and cannot wait. 2. They think there isn't really a train or that it already past. 3. Sometimes barriers malfunction and there is no train.4. They are stupid.
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@GardenGerty (170693)
• United States
13h
Something about those flashing lights certainly does it for your heart.
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@kaylachan (86717)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13h
@GardenGerty Yeah. Whenever I see them I am almost like a deer in the headlights, and very aware there may be an obsctle I wasn't expecting.
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@GardenGerty (170693)
• United States
13h
Now on the outskirts of the town where I used to live, in a poorly lighted area, we did have a car drive into the side of a moving train in the dark. Shortly after that at least some rail companies started putting reflective stripes on the cars. I could see how that could happen because I experienced the lack of visibility myself on occasion.
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@GardenGerty (170693)
• United States
13h
I was wondering. And slowing down although speed limit at that point is only 20. I expected to see someone on the right pulled over and getting a ticket, because I noticed them to the right first.
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@GardenGerty (170693)
• United States
13h
When I was a bus driver kids gave me lots of grief because I was required to stop, open doors and windows and look even when there were no lights or barriers. I hauled one boy to a school district sponsored job one year. He was mildly slow, or learning disabled. He also had a job at my local grocery. One night he admitted to me he had tried to beat a train on his way home and got hit. It was slow having just left a grain elevator, and he was in a big old boat of a family car, so he was not hurt. He said he learned his lesson.
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@nawala123 (23689)
• Indonesia
15h
At rain possibilities of accident raise up. My heart gonna beats faster
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@GardenGerty (170693)
• United States
13h
For a minute I had assumed it was a seatbelt check. Around here, at various times of the year the law enforcement members randomly pull over cars, and if your seatbelt is on they hand you a dollar.
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@RasmaSandra (101233)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16h
Glad that it was nothing serious, Nice you got a key chain,
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@GardenGerty (170693)
• United States
13h
It is a good reminder for a situation I already knew about.
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@Marilynda1225 (92358)
• United States
Just now
It's really sad when people have to be reminded to stay off the tracks when a train is coming. But, good that the troopers were there to remind people about safety
@JudyEv (389000)
• Rockingham, Australia
9h
My heart would have been racing too. You always think the worst in these situations - or at least I do. 
@aureliah (24903)
• Kenya
36m
Very true. Train/car clashes are avoidable if only people could practice a little more patience
