Dublin truck tries to beat level crossing, fails miserably

We’ve already had one video of dangerous behaviour at level crossings today - a cyclist from Poland who had a very lucky escape - and now there’s one from closer to home.

Iarnród Éireann tweeted out a video of an incident that took place at the Merrion Gates crossing in Dublin. Despite the signals warning him to stop, a truck driver drove through the crossing as the barriers began to fall.

Video: Truck damaging Merrion gates level crossing today #truckwit full services resumed with delays of up to 15mins pic.twitter.com/3vRdEGt4Ov

— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) December 16, 2015

As you can see, he didn’t make it across in time, causing significant damage to the barriers. The drivers details have since been passed on the Gardaí.

Iarnród Éireann report that there were delays of 15 minutes after the incident but what got most people’s attention was their sly dig with that hashtag.

@IrishRail great hash tag #truckwit

— Piero Tintori (@pierotintori) December 16, 2015

Well played.

H/T: BreakingNews.ie