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Originally Posted by MattyC
I really, really don't understand how people can accidently be hit by a train. Its a f***ing train.
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I understand how it happens.
You are waiting to cross; as the lights are flashing for the train and you see the driver waiting to cross. The train crosses, and as it goes by you proceed across the tracks. However in the time it took the 3 cars to go past you, another train going the other way has started to come, and you don't see it coming because of the train right in front of you. For the same reason, you also don't hear it.
Yes, looking both ways solves this. But your brain knows it has already looked; and there was only one train. Same as when you are a pedestrian in England, you have to train your brain to look the opposite way you do here.