Network Rail have released an Olympic-themed compilation of CCTV videos showing members of the public taking unbelievable risks on level crossings in the UK.
The video was produced with the help of young people and is called Rail Life: CCTV Sports (Don’t try this at home).
Some of the ‘sports’ shown include the 50m pram dash showing a woman running across a level crossing as the alarms sound with her baby, Squash where we see a car getting stranded on a crossing, and the 110m hurdles.
In the last clip if you look closely you can see the boy coming so close to being hit that the train actually tears his shoe off of his foot.
The video is running alongside another sports-themed video produced by Network Rail that features hurdler Dai Greene attempting to outrun a speeding train. This also includes clips from some of the more shocking incidents caught on CCTV by the organisation.
Last week the head of information security for Network Rail, Peter Gibbons, said that Network Rail’s main priority is physical security rather than cyber security. He was speaking at the Westminster eForum on UK Cyber Security Strategy.
44 people died in the UK at level crossings in the last five years.