WATCH: Hair-raising moment driver narrowly avoids colliding with train due to THIS
VIRAL video has captured the moment a car came terrifyingly close to colliding straight into a train, because the boom barriers failed to go down.
Barrier fails to close as high-speed train crosses road
The footage was taken from the dash cam of the car as it drove along a two-lane road.
As it approached a train crossing, the boom barriers remained completely vertical on either side.
But just before it travelled trough the intersection, a train appeared in view on the left hand side.
The train zoomed along the tracks and straight over the street, as the car slowed to a stop right before it.
Within a second, the train had crossed over and disappeared out of sight.
After it was gone, the boom barriers began to come down as the red signal lights flashed.
But the barriers were far too late to warn off drivers. They also came down only slightly before moving back up vertically once again.
The jaw-dropping video has gone viral since it was shared online.
It's either a really fast train or completely useless barriers
Posted to image site Imgur, the clip was captioned: “It's either a really fast train or completely useless barriers.”
It has been viewed over 750,000 times, with many viewers commenting their own reactions.
One Imgur user wrote: “Ok. That is somewhat....worrying.”
Another shared: “The barriers didn’t even have time to go down half way.”
One viewer said: “Never trust those things, your own eyes work better, or at least should if you're driving.”
Another echoed: “This is why you should still look both ways when coming to train tracks.”
A different video showed a driver’s extreme close call with a train as it passed over a roadway.
The driver failed to leave enough room for the train to pass and the train slammed into the front of the car, knocking off the front bumper.