Sam Wilson <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Charles Ellson <charlesellson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:12:34 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
>> <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Charles Ellson <charlesellson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:15:37 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
>>>> <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Today (I think) a stolen (?) car was captured driving fast through the
>>>>>> platforms at Cheshunt station
>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/newsforalluk/status/1415636043949232128?s=21>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It had earlier been involved in an incident involving dragging a police
>>>>>> officer along the road
>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/giggsclazz/status/1415637344787607553?s=21>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It drove through the barriers at a nearby level crossing (so likely that a
>>>>>> train was approaching), then turned onto the track
>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/bigkyri/status/1415659120137588737?s=21>
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder what the outcome would have been in third-rail territory.
>>>>>
>>>> One Darwinned scrote?
>>>
>>> Or an exploding car at least? Is there prior art?
>>>
>> Not that I can find in the form of a car failing to outrun a train
>> along the line rather than the more usual getting wiped out while
>> going across a level crossing. The nearest seems to be various videos
>> of drivers trying to outrun trams in an attempt to turn in front of
>> them at crossroads. In the real world, cars tend not to catch fire as
>> portrayed in films.
>
> I know. Disappointing, isn’t it. They should explode spectacularly! I
> was wondering whether there had been cars in contact with the third rail
> and what might have happened to them.
>

I wonder what'll happen when someone tries that with an 800V BEV (with
underfloor batteries)?

Sam Wilson <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Charles Ellson <charlesellson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:12:34 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
>> <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Charles Ellson <charlesellson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:15:37 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
>>>> <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Today (I think) a stolen (?) car was captured driving fast through the
>>>>>> platforms at Cheshunt station
>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/newsforalluk/status/1415636043949232128?s=21>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It had earlier been involved in an incident involving dragging a police
>>>>>> officer along the road
>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/giggsclazz/status/1415637344787607553?s=21>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It drove through the barriers at a nearby level crossing (so likely that a
>>>>>> train was approaching), then turned onto the track
>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/bigkyri/status/1415659120137588737?s=21>
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder what the outcome would have been in third-rail territory.
>>>>>
>>>> One Darwinned scrote?
>>>
>>> Or an exploding car at least? Is there prior art?
>>>
>> Not that I can find in the form of a car failing to outrun a train
>> along the line rather than the more usual getting wiped out while
>> going across a level crossing. The nearest seems to be various videos
>> of drivers trying to outrun trams in an attempt to turn in front of
>> them at crossroads. In the real world, cars tend not to catch fire as
>> portrayed in films.
>
> I know. Disappointing, isn’t it. They should explode spectacularly!
>

<https://youtu.be/nqJiWbD08Yw>

Tom Scott: Why Real Explosions Don't Look Like Movie Explosions

Anna Noyd-Dryver

Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
> Sam Wilson <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> Charles Ellson <charlesellson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:12:34 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
>>> <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Charles Ellson <charlesellson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:15:37 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
>>>>> <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Today (I think) a stolen (?) car was captured driving fast through the
>>>>>>> platforms at Cheshunt station
>>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/newsforalluk/status/1415636043949232128?s=21>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It had earlier been involved in an incident involving dragging a police
>>>>>>> officer along the road
>>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/giggsclazz/status/1415637344787607553?s=21>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It drove through the barriers at a nearby level crossing (so likely that a
>>>>>>> train was approaching), then turned onto the track
>>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/bigkyri/status/1415659120137588737?s=21>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wonder what the outcome would have been in third-rail territory.
>>>>>>
>>>>> One Darwinned scrote?
>>>>
>>>> Or an exploding car at least? Is there prior art?
>>>>
>>> Not that I can find in the form of a car failing to outrun a train
>>> along the line rather than the more usual getting wiped out while
>>> going across a level crossing. The nearest seems to be various videos
>>> of drivers trying to outrun trams in an attempt to turn in front of
>>> them at crossroads. In the real world, cars tend not to catch fire as
>>> portrayed in films.
>>
>> I know. Disappointing, isn’t it. They should explode spectacularly!
>>
>
> <https://youtu.be/nqJiWbD08Yw>
>
> Tom Scott: Why Real Explosions Don't Look Like Movie Explosions

:-)

Sam

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Sam Wilson <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Charles Ellson <charlesellson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:12:34 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
>> <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Charles Ellson <charlesellson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:15:37 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
>>>> <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Today (I think) a stolen (?) car was captured driving fast through the
>>>>>> platforms at Cheshunt station
>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/newsforalluk/status/1415636043949232128?s=21>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It had earlier been involved in an incident involving dragging a police
>>>>>> officer along the road
>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/giggsclazz/status/1415637344787607553?s=21>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It drove through the barriers at a nearby level crossing (so likely that a
>>>>>> train was approaching), then turned onto the track
>>>>>> <https://twitter.com/bigkyri/status/1415659120137588737?s=21>
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder what the outcome would have been in third-rail territory.
>>>>>
>>>> One Darwinned scrote?
>>>
>>> Or an exploding car at least? Is there prior art?
>>>
>> Not that I can find in the form of a car failing to outrun a train
>> along the line rather than the more usual getting wiped out while
>> going across a level crossing. The nearest seems to be various videos
>> of drivers trying to outrun trams in an attempt to turn in front of
>> them at crossroads. In the real world, cars tend not to catch fire as
>> portrayed in films.
>
> I know. Disappointing, isn’t it. They should explode spectacularly! I
> was wondering whether there had been cars in contact with the third rail
> and what might have happened to them.
>
> Sam
>

I know of one incident quite a few years ago now.
The owner of a Southampton cleaning business had become quite successful
and rewarded himself
with a powerful car whose make I cannot recall got killed coming off one
of the roads into the city Thomas Lewis Way which runs alongside the
railway for a distance. The car which was being driven at excessively high
speed hit a traffic Island causing loss of control and left the road,
ploughed through vegetation and ended up on the railway. At some point the
petrol tank was ruptured and the arcing from the third rail ignited the
leaking fuel with the consequential fire incinerating the vehicle and the
two occupants who may or may not have already been dead or incapacitated
before it came to rest on the railway.

GH