Train slams into car.

[Sir_Crashalot]

A couple hundred (or thousand) tons of steel beats the silly little tin cage every time.

The average intercity train here in Holland weighs somewhere between 280.000 and 300.000 kilos (not even talking about freight trains which are double or triple that weight). My Mercedes, which is considered a big and heavy car, weighs 1300 kilos. It's like a mosquito trying to tackle an elefant.

Crash

[Ravang]

just other day in train plowed in a store that was 30ft. form the tracks at 1 mph and when 8ft. into the stoer before stopping , but it happened because the backed up off the end of the track thought a steel barrier, and finally stopping when in hit the store knocking it almost completely over, while there was people in it, but one one person went in to shock and went to the hospital but was ok.  :)

[Mushroom_Farmer]

A couple hundred (or thousand) tons of steel beats the silly little tin cage every time.

The average intercity train here in Holland weighs somewhere between 280.000 and 300.000 kilos (not even talking about freight trains which are double or triple that weight). My Mercedes, which is considered a big and heavy car, weighs 1300 kilos. It's like a mosquito trying to tackle an elefant.

Crash

I once worked a job loading grain into bulk cars. Each car weighed 50,000 lbs empty and they had a payload weight of 100,000 lbs. I would load 30 cars at a stretch, which usually took 10-12 hrs. Those 30 cars would eventually be added to mybe 50 or 60 loaded cars from other grain elevators, and that's considered a medium size train. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that much weight ain't stopping really quick.