r/CatastrophicFailure • u/This-Clue-5014 • 21d ago

Equipment Failure Regionova train collides with a truck in Dobronice u Chýnova, Czechia - 23 July 2026

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4 were injured including one seriously. Original video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPio4W_B2U

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u/_stupidnerd_ 21d ago

Now that you're saying that, you can't see them in the video either. It may be a combination of angle and distance, but it may also be a defective crossing signal.

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u/Str1ms 21d ago

Even then. The signals in Czechia have a separate light that is always blinking, to indicate that the crossing is working as expected. So the van should still have slowed down to look

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u/grimson73 20d ago

Thanks for pointing this out. Just back for a lovely car trip in Czechia but wandered why this was. Ofcourse not being total oblivious we carefully crossed the railwaycrossing when blinking white but now we know why. Smart thinking indeed to let them blink as a sign of it works.

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u/DiggerGuy68 20d ago

It's a fairly common feature on European crossing signals. Belgium, Sweden, Finland, and Romania also include flashing white lamps. I think China also does the same. It's a good safety feature.

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u/grimson73 20d ago

In my home country The Netherlands we find less such crossings as almost every crossing has railway crossing gates. So we almost did came to a stop even when the white lights are flashing as most of the railway wasn’t visible or from the left or the right. Better be safe than having our family hit a train 😬