Amazing CCTV footage of a Turkish man who narrowly escapes a collision with a truck and a train.
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Idil
Haha well in Turkey we have a terrible road system, so we’re used to narrowly escaping things. At least the reflexes definitely are increased.
Idil
Oh sorry. I commented before watching the video…I thought he was in a car. woops.
Evilbeagle
This might be the fourth time I have seen this video, and though I know he’s survived, it still makes me cringe.
Neslock
“used to narrowly escaping things” made me laugh, Idil. Gives me this image of Turkish pedestrians walking around with this nervous look on their faces all the time, looking from side to side for the next huge piece of machinery coming their way.
Mackenzie
I saw this video on liveleak.com labeled as Instant Death. The impact speed alone would have broke his neck.
Alex
That’s one really lucky guy! Amazing how there’s no warning light or anything at the train crossing.
Martin
This is the kind of news I like to see, the sort of thing that generally gets hidden away in the back of a newspaper because he didn’t die.
Screen Sleuth
Wow…I woulda never gone back to that job again. What the hell happened? Wasn’t there some type of organized signal system?
Idil
Neslock,
the pedestrians are fine because it’s the drivers that have good reflexes, so they narrowly avoid people and other cars… haha 
Chad Cloman
That hardhat may have saved his life, or at least prevented some serious damage when the lorry hit him in the head.
Guy
What in the world was he doing standing right next to the tracks with a train coming that he must have seen/heard? It doesn’t make any sense, unless he was looking to end it all.
Ali S.
@ Guy
From what I’ve read on the interwebs, apparently, this guy was watching to make sure no trucks got in the way of the train…but the truck that we do see apparently had no driver in it and the culprit maybe a faulty handbrake.
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