Heard a huge crash outside my apartment window in downtown Dallas, and…

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Moerijuana@reddit

Do they know they can’t park there???

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daedaeboi@reddit

How dumb you gotta be to risk it in dart bus area

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cuberandgamer@reddit

People really gotta stop running red lights by the DART tracks

Actually people just gotta stop running red lights anywhere

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I was near deep Ellum a week ago and traffic was standstill and almost no one was moving. Come up to the train tracks I stop before them because there’s no space for me without being on the track. Some guy honks at me when the train is literally stopped right next to us and sure enough the rails go down 5 secs later. Train passes and they go up and traffic still hasn’t changed, these ppl don’t gaf 💀

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woahwoahwoah28@reddit

I saw a Tesla get the bar put down on his back trunk near Fair Park. Thankfully the traffic in front of him moved in time, but I was panicking because no way the train could stop in time.

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Icy_Huckleberry_8049@reddit

the railroad arms can be broken if you drive through them, they're not a permanent structure, they're designed to be broken if needed.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

Some a-hole honked at me for being stopped, when there was literally a crowd of pedestrians in front of me in a crosswalk. Do you want me to slowly plow people down with my car? I really do not understand rude Dallas drivers now. How they bask in their meanness. This isn’t the Dallas I was born in anymore 🙄

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RobonianBattlebot@reddit

Its so wild how much it has changed here, and I don't know why. NOBODY would honk when I was a kid. I am 40 now. It was considered super rude. We also would wave to people who let us over (i still do this) and would drive towards the shoulder in rural areas so the person behind us could pass if they wanted (Only if theyre right behind you, lol don't drive in the shoulder constantly). People here are so strange and aggressive now, especially after covid.

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Past-Football629@reddit

Agree with the covid observation. It broke something in the public psyche where road etiquette is concerned.

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Icy_Huckleberry_8049@reddit

not just on the roads - EVERYWHERE

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Icy_Huckleberry_8049@reddit

Most people are from other cities / states.

very few people are left that actually were born and raised here.

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Purple-Claim-5782@reddit

We got rid of red light cameras. I see this as a direct result of that.

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upliftinglitter@reddit

It’s so strange and hostile— it’s scary to go into intersections, no one waves, no one signals, and so many people cut you off

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Economy_Walk@reddit

Happened to me today on the way home from work. Two cars in front of me weren't turning fast enough at the red light for the prick behind me. So, he laid on the horn. I normally try to ignore ignorant people on the road. I looked in my mirror and just threw my hands up. Like, what the hell was I supposed to do?

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ILoveTravel76@reddit

They can honk all they want. I won't be the dumbass stopping on train tracks. Good for you. ❤️

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I_Like_To_Swing@reddit

We should stop using stoplights and switch to roundabouts

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p8nt_junkie@reddit

I was at Garland(78) & NW Hwy westbound at the red light and my wife and I counted 4 red light runners going in all remaining directions while we sat there before our light turned green again.

Dallas 🤷‍♂️

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pavlovs_monkey@reddit

My first time driving in New Orleans, I noticed there was no delay between one side's red and the other side's green. That's gotta up the stakes!

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rThundrbolt@reddit

The most egregious one I've seen was like 5 years ago around 2am, someone was going north on Greenville avenue and hit the light at Mockingbird going about 80mph. They never even tried to stop, just 80mph running the red and continuing on going the wrong way into the one way traffic portion of Greenville. Was doing Uber Eats at the time and never heard or saw any emergency action the rest of the night so luckily nothing horrible came of it.

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dfwdevdotcom@reddit

So true, they won't though

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calmrain@reddit (OP)

Update: they managed to get the driver out! She is alive and in the ambulance. I live really high up, and I felt the vibrations from the crash, at first. I was worried for the driver 😮‍💨

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

I hope their insurance forces them to take a defensive driving class once they’re recovered. Maybe they’ll learn something.

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bemvee@reddit

I would assume being hit by a DART train is a more impactful lesson than a two hour defensive driving class at Joe’s Crab Shack. But I also assumed this driver was either drunk or idiotically stayed sitting in their car that stalled on top of the tracks.

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justwanderingtoday@reddit

There's still a Joe's Crab Shack? I haven't seen one in years. The food got so crappy they finally closed them here.

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bemvee@reddit

I honestly have no idea, but it’s been over a decade since I had to take a defensive driving course after getting a ticket and it was hosted in a Joe’s Crab Shack. The vibes were very weird.

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ChangeDizzy4376@reddit

that was my one and only defensive driving course back in the early aughts, too. In the same Joe's Crab Shack that I was thrown a surprise 16th birthday party by my bestie a few years earlier. What a head trip

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bemvee@reddit

Was it the Grapevine location? I wasn’t even raised here and for some reason that location made it more surreal for me lol

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brigitteer2010@reddit

Hahahahahahaha goddammit I hate laughing at this but you set the scene so vividly

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bl4ckt4cm0ps1@reddit

I saw this tonight walking home. In fact, I think you can see me in this photo.

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XX220@reddit

Sorry i thought this was a GTA 6 leak i was about to say

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Motor-Sense-269@reddit

https://youtu.be/6pp-X3_ZQT0?si=tzNhCrsZLE-jQ-tK

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ViolaFields@reddit

WH Where is this? Dow town? I may have missed it scanning the thread

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LittleTXBigAZ@reddit

It says exactly where this is in the caption of the images 🤦‍♂️

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ViolaFields@reddit

Please see my comment and maybe don't be so quick to judge people in the future.

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LittleTXBigAZ@reddit

No

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ViolaFields@reddit

I have low vision issues and especially dark images or just in the dark anywhere. I failed to see the 3 dots for more info. Hope all the downvotes were fun.

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Csharp27@reddit

I’ve definitely taken a wrong turn and ended up on those tracks at night before. Then spent the next 30 seconds nearly shitting my pants turning around trying to get off of them. Looks like that’s not what happened here but yea. They really look like a road if you don’t know your way around very well.

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muomo@reddit

Not again 😩

People really need to start stopping at red lights in this city.

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StRemedius@reddit

I agree with you completely, but I'll also add that an issue downtown is with people trying to get through a green light and get some doofus who stops right on the other side of the intersection for no readily discernible reason. Are they testing their brakes, are they stopping to rewind that TikTok video they're watching, did they drop their phone, or are they seeing tracers from the heroic dose of LSD they took 15 minutes before? Who can tell? (I say this because I've been caught on the tracks in this same exact situation...and the only reason I didn't block the train route was that I was on a bicycle.)

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Houstonontheroad@reddit

I was not the driver

I got up late and missed the bus

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GetMaBFG@reddit

Okayyy. Real talk, what's rent like there? Ive been thinking about moving into the city.

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Agile_Elevator_6497@reddit

I live in the building that OP is in. It’s not bad here and we have big units! I think they start around $1800 here. Maybe a little lower.

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Agile_Elevator_6497@reddit

The driver of the car was fine. I was down there after it happened and she was laughing with the cops. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Also, looks like you live in my building, haha!

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CuddleConnoisseur@reddit

train obviously swerved

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IfOnlyLifeWasEasier@reddit

The train will always win…

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Empty-Initial6392@reddit

I've lived and driven in many different cities all over the USA, and consider Dallas drivers the worst, most inconsiderate, rude, aggressive and either completely ignorant of regulations and law, or simply DGAFF!

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Both-Rough-Hewn@reddit

Yeah, those trains are always 'sneaking up' on folk.

/s

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HighPlainsDrifter79@reddit

oh their neck or back will be hurting for sure.

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AdagioBitter@reddit

Were they driving a Nissan Altima with paper plates by any chance?

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AdagioBitter@reddit

Were they driving a Nissan Altima with paper plates by any chance?

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LordLip@reddit

That’s why my train isn’t moving huh

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FlappySmasher@reddit

Man, as I guy who also takes the train, I feel you. My train has- gotten on fire, I've gotten stuck in the tunnel in city place, my train had to skip the stop I needed to go once cause there was police activity. Taking Dart sucks sometimes- I'm not blaming dart- its just life being mean

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NeverEndingHope@reddit

I wanna add on; wasn't running because of a crash, forced to stop because the next station was shut down, and sometimes didn't even show up. I love Dart but damn if it isn't an unpredictable roller coaster sometimes. I just wish the app reflected or alerted to interruptions and news faster because often times I'll hear about it on Reddit or one of the Dallas instagram accounts before Dart communications.

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LordLip@reddit

I could walk it’s only two stops but I just finished my shift my dogs are barking

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snake-lady-2005@reddit

They'll chase you down

https://youtu.be/MjbUnn32_zU?si=-b0hbEVKg8XPr940

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EastofGaston@reddit

Cool shots

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IAmSixNine@reddit

Man them trains come out of no where.

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snake-lady-2005@reddit

If only there was a way to tell where they are and when they'll be there...

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IAmSixNine@reddit

You are so right. I mean i thought we had the technology but man these ghost trains are such a danger to society. I mean tracks are approaching, it could from from ANY of the 2 directions. Do you look left or right. These decisions are tough. They take time away from using your phone while driving.

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snake-lady-2005@reddit

They'll getcha

https://youtu.be/MjbUnn32_zU?si=-b0hbEVKg8XPr940

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snake-lady-2005@reddit

They'll getcha

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timeIsAllitTakes@reddit

As someone who lived downtown for a while I've got to say, the lights down there are total shit if you arent used to them. They are way off on the sides of the road and it's so easy to just get tunnel vision at night and realize you're looking through the lights at your intersection and instead looking at the ones down the road.

And don't even get me started on those weird ass side streets to the tracks with the concrete city titties separating them. I've seen so many people turn directly onto the tracks when clearly their GPS navigates them there but they don't realize they need to be further right.

I'm not saying this person didn't fuck up but also I try to have some understanding that it's a poor setup down there.

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Goetia-@reddit

Agreed. I have to really focus up when downtown. It's a rarely encountered light pattern and you can easily zoom right through one if you're just watching the road farther ahead.

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rThundrbolt@reddit

Having the only traffic lights be on the sidewalk is terrible design and I hate it so much

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YoshidaEri@reddit

Concrete city titties?

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beautamousmunch@reddit

Haven’t heard that term in a very long time.

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No_Obligation5739@reddit

Ever… went, “huh”?! Then immediately realized what they were talking about!

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mccaigbro69@reddit

They aren’t concrete. They are ceramic traffic buttons.

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Breeeeebly@reddit

There are these bumps on the ground that are about cantaloupe sized, and they're the only thing separating the train tracks from the street adjacent to the tracks. The bumps are easy to miss and drive over, so there's the question of why the city doesn't have a more visible barrier between the tracks and the street.

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tmc00138@reddit

I left work and saw the emergency vehicles up there and immediately thought "somebody turned onto the tracks." It's true that that intersection is poorly controlled.

But it's also true that DART trains move very slowly through that stretch. In order for her to get hit right in that place, the train would already have been in the intersection at the time when she entered it. She clearly should have seen it coming in time to stop. This one's on the driver.

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HamiltonButler01@reddit

This looks like some opening city action shot from a 2000’s Spider Man Movie to me lol

Just the angle of it

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datdouche@reddit

My name…is Nolan Ryan. I was bitten by a radioactive spider-monkey from another dimension.

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rThundrbolt@reddit

Everyone knows that the only monkeys that Nolan battles are snow monkeys

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datdouche@reddit

Dangit I couldn’t think of it haha. Edited.

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DookieMcDookface@reddit

The angle reminds me of the old school 2D Grand Theft Auto video game… cops and all.

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Engagethedawn@reddit

The ads are evolving

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DFWRailVideos@reddit

See tracks? THINK TRAIN.

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Black_Wolf1995@reddit

See the problem lies with the fact that some people just don’t think…. They just do.

They don’t check for trains. They don’t check for cops. They don’t care who gets in the way. They don’t care about damage to property (rather it’s their own, the city’s, or someone else’s)

It’s all about getting from A-B in record time.

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